Scarabaeoidea
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| Scarabaeiformia | |
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| Lucanus cervus, a stag beetle | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Scarabaeiformia Crowson, 1960 |
| Superfamily: | Scarabaeoidea Latreille, 1802 |
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Scarabaeoidea is a superfamily of beetles, the only subgroup of the infraorder Scarabaeiformia. Around 35,000 species are placed in this superfamily and some 200 new species are described each year.[1] Its constituent families are also undergoing revision presently, and the family list below will soon be outdated.
American Beetles lists the following families:[2]
- Belohinidae Paulian 1959
- Bolboceratidae Laporte de Castelnau, 1840
- Ceratocanthidae White 1842 (= Acanthoceridae)
- Diphyllostomatidae Holloway 1972 (false stag beetles)
- Geotrupidae Latreille, 1802 (earth-boring dung beetles)
- Glaphyridae MacLeay, 1819 (bumble bee scarab beetles)
- Glaresidae Semenov-Tian-Shanskii and Medvedev 1932 (enigmatic scarab beetles)
- Hybosoridae Erichson, 1847 (scavenging scarab beetles)
- Lucanidae Latreille 1804 (stag beetles)
- Ochodaeidae Mulsant and Rey 1871 (sand-loving scarab beetles)
- Passalidae Leach, 1815 (bess beetles)
- Pleocomidae LeConte 1861 (rain beetles)
- Scarabaeidae Latreille 1802 (scarab beetles)
- Trogidae MacLeay 1819 (hide beetles)
[edit] See also
List of subgroups of the order Coleoptera
[edit] References
- ^ Brett C. Ratcliffe (2002). "A checklist of the Scarabaeoidea (Coleoptera) of Panama". Zootaxa (32): 1–48. http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2002f/z00032f.pdf.
- ^ Ross H. Arnett, Jr. and Michael C. Thomas (2001–2002). American Beetles. CRC Press.
[edit] External links
- Checklist of the Scarabaeoidea of the Nearctic Realm (2003)
- Scarabs of the Levant
- Scarabaeoidea Movies from Tree of Life Project
