Scarabaeoidea

Superfamily of beetles

Scarabaeoidea
Temporal range: Jurassic–Recent
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Scarabaeoidea from Central Europe
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Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
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. This superfamily includes some of the largest beetles extant today, including rhinoceros beetles, (Dynastinae), the Hercules beetle (Dynastes hercules) and Goliath beetles (Goliathus sp.).

The oldest confirmed member of the group is the extinct genus Alloioscarabaeus from the Middle Jurassic period Jiulongshan Formation of Inner Mongolia, China.[2]

Families

The following families are listed in Bouchard (2011):[3]

See also

In Peru alone, there are 1042 known species of Scarabaeoidea as of 2015.[4] This is due to Peru's high biodiversity and endemism.

References

  1. ^ Brett C. Ratcliffe (2002). "A checklist of the Scarabaeoidea (Coleoptera) of Panama" (PDF). Zootaxa (32): 1–48.
  2. ^ Bai, Ming; Ahrens, Dirk; Yang, Xing-Ke; Ren, Dong (April 2012). "New fossil evidence of the early diversification of scarabs: Alloioscarabaeus cheni (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea) from the Middle Jurassic of Inner Mongolia, China: New fossil evidence of scarabs from China". Insect Science. 19 (2): 159–171. doi:10.1111/j.1744-7917.2011.01460.x. S2CID 54930162.
  3. ^ Bouchard, Patrice; Bousquet, Yves; Davies, Anthony E.; Alonso-Zarazaga, Miguel A.; et al. (2011). "Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta)". ZooKeys (88). Pensoft Publishers: 1–972. doi:10.3897/zookeys.88.807. ISSN 1313-2989. PMC 3088472. PMID 21594053.
  4. ^ Ratcliffe, B. C.; Jameson, M. L.; Figueroa, L.; Cave, R. D.; Paulsen, M. J.; Cano, Enio B.; Beza-Beza, C.; Jimenez-Ferbans, L.; Reyes-Castillo, P. (2015). "Beetles (Coleoptera) of Peru: A Survey of the Families. Scarabaeoidea". Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society. 88 (2): 186–207. doi:10.2317/kent-88-02-186-207.1.

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Extant Coleoptera families
Suborder Archostemata
  • Crowsoniellidae (Crowsoniella relicta)
  • Cupedidae (reticulated beetles)
  • Jurodidae (Sikhotealinia zhiltzovae)
  • Micromalthidae (telephone-pole beetle)
  • Ommatidae
Suborder Adephaga
Extant families
  • Amphizoidae (trout-stream beetles)
  • Aspidytidae
  • Carabidae (ground beetles)
  • Cicindelidae (tiger beetles)
  • Dytiscidae (predaceous diving beetles)
  • Gyrinidae (whirligig beetles)
  • Haliplidae (crawling water beetles)
  • Hygrobiidae
  • Meruidae (Meru phyllisae)
  • Noteridae (burrowing water beetles)
  • Trachypachidae (false ground beetles)
Suborder Myxophaga
Suborder Polyphaga
Bostrichiformia
Bostrichoidea
  • Bostrichidae (auger beetles)
  • Dermestidae (skin beetles)
  • Endecatomidae
  • Jacobsoniidae (Jacobson's beetles)
  • Nosodendridae (wounded-tree beetles)
  • Ptiniidae (furniture beetles, death watch beetles, spider beetles)
Derodontoidea
  • Derodontidae (tooth-necked fungus beetles)
Cucujiformia
Chrysomeloidea
Cleroidea
Coccinelloidea
Cucujoidea
Curculionoidea
(weevils)
  • Anthribidae (fungus weevils)
  • Attelabidae (leaf-rolling weevils)
  • Belidae (primitive weevils)
  • Brentidae (straight snout weevils, New York weevil)
  • Caridae
  • Curculionidae (true weevils, bark beetles, ambrosia beetles)
  • Nemonychidae (pine flower weevils)
Lymexyloidea
  • Lymexylidae (ship-timber beetles)
Tenebrionoidea
  • Aderidae (ant-like leaf beetles)
  • Anthicidae (ant-like flower beetles)
  • Archeocrypticidae (cryptic fungus beetles)
  • Boridae (conifer bark beetles)
  • Chalcodryidae
  • Ciidae (minute tree-fungus beetles)
  • Melandryidae (false darkling beetles)
  • Meloidae (blister beetles)
  • Mordellidae (tumbling flower beetles)
  • Mycetophagidae (hairy fungus beetles)
  • Mycteridae (palm and flower beetles)
  • Oedemeridae (false blister beetle)
  • Perimylopidae, or Promecheilidae
  • Prostomidae (jugular-horned beetles)
  • Pterogeniidae
  • Pyrochroidae (fire-coloured beetles)
  • Pythidae (dead log bark beetles)
  • Ripiphoridae (wedge-shaped beetles)
  • Salpingidae (narrow-waisted bark beetles)
  • Scraptiidae (false flower beetles)
  • Stenotrachelidae (false longhorn beetles)
  • Synchroidae (synchroa bark beetles)
  • Tenebrionidae (darkling beetles)
  • Tetratomidae (polypore fungus beetles)
  • Trictenotomidae
  • Ulodidae
  • Zopheridae (ironclad beetles, cylindrical bark beetles)
Elateriformia
Buprestoidea
  • Buprestidae (jewel beetles, or metallic wood-boring beetles)
  • Schizopodidae
Byrrhoidea
  • Byrrhidae (pill beetles)
  • Callirhipidae (cedar beetles)
  • Chelonariidae (turtle beetles)
  • Cneoglossidae
  • Dryopidae (long-toed water beetles)
  • Elmidae (riffle beetles)
  • Eulichadidae (forest stream beetles)
  • Heteroceridae (variegated mud-loving beetles)
  • Limnichidae (minute mud beetles)
  • Lutrochidae (travertine beetles)
  • Psephenidae (water-penny beetles)
  • Ptilodactylidae
Dascilloidea
  • Dascillidae (soft bodied plant beetles)
  • Rhipiceridae (cicada beetle, cicada parasite beetles)
Elateroidea
  • Artematopodidae (soft-bodied plant beetles)
  • Brachypsectridae (Texas beetles)
  • Cantharidae (soldier beetles)
  • Cerophytidae (rare click beetles)
  • Elateridae (click beetles)
  • Eucnemidae (false click beetles)
  • Jurasaidae
  • Lampyridae (fireflies)
  • Lycidae (net-winged beetles)
  • Omethidae (false fireflies, long-lipped beetles)
  • Phengodidae (glowworm beetles)
  • Rhagophthalmidae
  • Sinopyrophoridae
  • Throscidae (false metallic wood-boring beetles)
Rhinorhipoidea
  • Rhinorhipidae (Rhinorhipus tamborinensis)
Scirtoidea
Scarabaeiformia
Scarabaeoidea
  • Belohinidae (Belohina inexpectata)
  • Bolboceratidae
  • Diphyllostomatidae (false stag beetles)
  • Geotrupidae (dor beetles)
  • Glaphyridae (bumble bee scarab beetles)
  • Glaresidae (enigmatic scarab beetles)
  • Hybosoridae (scavenger scarab beetles)
  • Lucanidae (stag beetles)
  • Ochodaeidae (sand-loving scarab beetles)
  • Passalidae (betsy beetles)
  • Pleocomidae (rain beetles)
  • Scarabaeidae (scarabs)
  • Trogidae (hide beetles)
Staphyliniformia
Histeroidea
  • Histeridae (clown beetles)
  • Sphaeritidae (false clown beetles)
  • Synteliidae
Hydrophiloidea
Staphylinoidea
  • Agyrtidae (primitive carrion beetles)
  • Hydraenidae
  • Leiodidae (round fungus beetles)
  • Ptiliidae (feather-winged beetles)
  • Silphidae (carrion beetles)
  • Staphylinidae (rove beetles)
Taxon identifiers
Scarabaeoidea
Scarabaeiformia


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