Tribe Gempylodini Sharp 1893 (ironclad beetle)
Insecta - Coleoptera - Zopheridae
Full reference: D. Sharp. 1893. On the genus Mecedanum, Erichson. The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine 29:255-258
Parent taxon: Colydiinae according to V. I. Alekseev 2019
See also Ivie et al. 2016 and Sharp 1893
Sister taxa: Bifurderum, Colydiini, Coslonatus, Cryphalites, Orthocerini, Stegastochlidus, Synchitini
Subtaxa: Damzenia
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Baltic Amber, GPIH collection (Eocene of Russian Federation)