Scarabaeoidea
| Scarabaeoidea | |
|---|---|
| Scarabaeoidea from Central Europe with anatomical details | |
Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Euarthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Scarabaeiformia Crowson, 1960 |
| Superfamily: | Scarabaeoidea Latreille, 1802 |
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 is only preliminary.
Contents
1 Families
2 See also
3 References
4 External links
Families
The following families are listed in Bouchard (2011):[2]
Belohinidae Paulian, 1959
Diphyllostomatidae Holloway, 1972 (false stag beetles)
Geotrupidae Latreille, 1802 (earth-boring dung beetles)
Glaphyridae MacLeay, 1819 (bumble bee scarab beetles)
Glaresidae Kolbe, 1905 (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)- † Coprinisphaeridae Genise, 2004
- † Pallichnidae Genise, 2004
See also
List of subgroups of the order Coleoptera
References
Data related to Scarabaeoidea at Wikispecies
Media related to Scarabaeoidea at Wikimedia Commons
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Bouchard, Patrice; Bousquet, Yves; Davies, Anthony E.; Alonso-Zarazaga, Miguel A.; et al. (2011). "Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta)". Zookeys. Pensoft Publishers. 88 (88). doi:10.3897/zookeys.88.807. ISSN 1313-2989.
External links
Checklist of the Scarabaeoidea of the Nearctic Realm (2003)
Scarabs of the Levant
Scarabaeoidea Movies from Tree of Life Project- Scarabeoidea of Italy
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