Cucujoidea

Cucujoidea
Various Cucujoidea with larvae and anatomical details
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Cucujiformia
Superfamily:	Cucujoidea Latreille, 1802

Cucujoidea is a superfamily of beetles. This group formerly included all of the families now included in the superfamily Coccinelloidea. They include some fungus beetles and a diversity of lineages of "bark beetles" unrelated to the "true" bark beetles (Scolytinae), which are weevils (superfamily Curculionoidea).

Families[]

These families are members of the superfamily Cucujoidea:^[1]

• Agapythidae Sen Gupta and Crowson, 1969
• Boganiidae Sen Gupta & Crowson, 1966
• Cavognathidae Sen Gupta & Crowson, 1966
• Cryptophagidae Kirby, 1826 – silken fungus beetles
• Cucujidae Latreille, 1802 – flat bark beetles
• Cybocephalidae Jacquelin du Val, 1858
• Cyclaxyridae Gimmel, Leschen & Ślipiński, 2009 – sooty mould beetles
• Erotylidae Latreille, 1802 – pleasing fungus beetles
• Helotidae Reitter, 1876
• Hobartiidae Sen Gupta & Crowson, 1966
• Kateretidae Erichson in Agassiz, 1846 – short-winged flower beetles (= Brachypteridae)
• Laemophloeidae Ganglbauer 1899 – lined flat bark beetles
• Lamingtoniidae Sen Gupta & Crowson, 1966
• Monotomidae Laporte, 1840 – root-eating beetles
• Myraboliidae Lawrence and Britton, 1991
• Nitidulidae Latreille, 1802 – sap beetles
• † Kirejtshuk, 1994 Middle Jurassic-Late Cretaceous, Eurasia
• Passandridae Erichson, 1845 –
• Phalacridae Leach, 1815 – shining flower beetles
• Phloeostichidae Reitter, 1911
• Priasilphidae Crowson, 1973
• Propalticidae Crowson, 1952
• Protocucujidae Crowson, 1954
• Silvanidae Kirby, 1937 – silvanid flat bark beetles
• † Hong, 2002 , China, Eocene
• Smicripidae Horn, 1879 – palmetto beetles
• Sphindidae Jacquelin du Val, 1860 – dry-fungus beetles
• Tasmosalpingidae Lawrence and Britton, 1991
• † Kirejtshuk and Azar 2008 Lebanese amber, Barremian

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