Scarabaeoidea
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Scientific classification 
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| 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.
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)
- inclusive of Ceratocanthidae White, 1842 (pill 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)
- † Genise, 2004
- † Genise, 2004
- † Boucher, et al., 2016
See also[]
In Peru alone, there are 1042 known species of Scarabaeoidea as of 2015. This is due to Peru's high biodiversity and endemism.
References[]
- ^ Brett C. Ratcliffe (2002). "A checklist of the Scarabaeoidea (Coleoptera) of Panama" (PDF). Zootaxa (32): 1–48.
- ^ Bouchard, Patrice; Bousquet, Yves; Davies, Anthony E.; Alonso-Zarazaga, Miguel A.; et al. (2011). "Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta)". ZooKeys. Pensoft Publishers (88): 1–972. doi:10.3897/zookeys.88.807. ISSN 1313-2989. PMC 3088472. PMID 21594053.
Ratcliffe, B., Jameson, M., Figueroa, L., Cave, R., Paulsen, M., Cano, E., Reyes-Castillo, P. (2015). Beetles (Coleoptera) of Peru: A Survey of the Families. Scarabaeoidea. Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society, 88(2), 186–207.
External links[]
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- Checklist of the Scarabaeoidea of the Nearctic Realm (2003)
- Scarabs of the Levant
- Scarabaeoidea Movies from Tree of Life Project
- Scarabeoidea of Italy
Categories:
- Beetle superfamilies
- Scarabaeiformia
- Taxa named by Pierre André Latreille
- Scarabaeoidea stubs