Cantharoid beetles
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| Photuris lucicrescens[1] | |
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| Superfamily: | Elateroidea Leach, 1815
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The Cantharoid beetles are a deprecated non-monophyletic taxonomic grouping (formerly superfamily Cantharoidea[2]), whose former members are now mostly within the currently accepted superfamily Elateroidea.
Families[3]
- Lampyridae – firefly beetles
- Rhagophthalmidae – Asian starworms
- Phengodidae LeConte 1861 – glowworm beetles (including Telegeusidae)
- Brachypsectridae Leconte & Horn, 1883 – Texas beetles
- Cneoglossidae (Now in Superfamily Byrrhoidea)
- Omalisidae Lacordaire, 1857 (= Homalisidae, Omalysidae)
- Lycidae – net-winged beetles
- Drilidae Blanchard, 1845
- Omethidae LeConte, 1861 – false firefly beetles
- Cantharidae – soldier beetles (including Chauliognathidae)
References
- ^ Cirrus Digital Firefly Photuris lucicrescens
- ^ Crowson, R.A. (1972). "A review of the classification of Cantharoidea (Coleoptera), with the definition of two new families, Cneoglossidae and Omethidae". Revista Univ Madr. 21: 35–77.
- ^ Sybil P. Parker (1982). Synopsis and classification of living organisms. McGraw-Hill. ISBN 978-0-07-079031-5.
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