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.

Families

The following families are listed in Bouchard (2011):[2]

See also

List of subgroups of the order Coleoptera

References

  1. ↑ Brett C. Ratcliffe (2002). "A checklist of the Scarabaeoidea (Coleoptera) of Panama" (PDF). Zootaxa (32): 1–48.
  2. ↑ 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.


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