Scirtoidea
Scirtoidea | |
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(Scirtidae) | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Coleoptera |
Suborder: | Polyphaga |
Infraorder: | Elateriformia |
Superfamily: | Scirtoidea Fleming, 1821 |
Families | |
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Scirtoidea is a superfamily of beetles in the suborder Polyphaga.
There are four extant families in this small superfamily:[1]
- Clambidae
- Decliniidae
- Eucinetidae
- Scirtidae
- † Kirejtshuk and Ponomarenko 2010 Late Jurassic-Early Cretaceous (Asia)
- † Kirejtshuk and Azar 2008 monotypic, Lebanese amber, Barremian
References[]
- ^ Friedrich, F.; Beutel, R. G. (2006). "The pterothoracic skeletomuscular system of Scirtoidea (Coleoptera: Polyphaga) and its implications for the high-level phylogeny of beetles". Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research. 44 (4): 290–315. doi:10.1111/j.1439-0469.2006.00369.x.
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Categories:
- Scirtoidea
- Beetle superfamilies
- Elateriformia stubs