Scirtoidea

Scirtoidea is a superfamily of beetles in the suborder Polyphaga.

Scirtoidea
Cyphon padi (Scirtidae)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Polyphaga
Infraorder: Elateriformia
Superfamily: Scirtoidea
Fleming, 1821
Families

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There are four families in this small superfamily:[1]

References

  1. 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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