Cleroidea
| Cleroidea | |
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| Trogodendron fasciculatum | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Cucujiformia |
| Superfamily: | Cleroidea Latreille, 1802 |
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Cleroidea is a small superfamily of beetles containing about 10,000 species. Most of the members of the group are somewhat slender, often with fairly soft, flexible elytra, and typically hairy or scaly.
Families[]
Families included are:[1]
- Acanthocnemidae Crowson, 1964
- Biphyllidae LeConte, 1861
- †Boleopsidae Kirejtshuk & Nel, 2013
- Byturidae Gistel, 1848
- Chaetosomatidae Crowson, 1952 (incl. Metaxinidae)
- Cleridae Latreille, 1802 (checkered beetles)
- Lophocateridae Crowson, 1964
- Mauroniscidae Majer, 1995
- Melyridae Leach, 1815 (soft-winged flower beetles) (incl. Attalomimidae, Malachiidae and Dasytidae)
- Peltidae Latreille, 1806
- Phloiophilidae Kiesenwetter, 1863
- Phycosecidae Crowson, 1952
- Prionoceridae Lacordaire, 1857
- Crowson, 1966
- Crowson, 1966
- LeConte, 1861 (incl. Gietellidae)
- Thanerocleridae Chapin, 1924
- Léveillé, 1888
- Trogossitidae Latreille, 1802 (bark-gnawing beetles)
Most species belong to the families Cleridae and Melyridae, followed by Trogossitidae.
References[]
- ^ Gimmel, Matthew L.; Bocakova, Milada; Gunter, Nicole L.; Leschen, Richard A.B. (2019). "Comprehensive phylogeny of the Cleroidea (Coleoptera: Cucujiformia)". Systematic Entomology. 44 (3): 527–558. doi:10.1111/syen.12338.
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