- Scarabaeoidea
Taxobox
name = Scarabaeiformia
image_width = 250px
image_caption = "Lucanus cervus", astag beetle
regnum =Animal ia
phylum =Arthropod a
classis =Insect a
ordo = Coleoptera
subordo =Polyphaga
infraordo = Scarabaeiformia
infraordo_authority = Crowson, 1960
superfamilia = Scarabaeoidea
superfamilia_authority = Latreille, 1802
subdivision_ranks = Families
subdivision = See text.Scarabaeoidea is a
superfamily ofbeetle s, the only subgroup of theinfraorder Scarabaeiformia. Around 35,000 species are placed in this superfamily and some 200 new species are described each year. [cite journal | issue = 32 | journal = Zootaxa | pages = 1–48 | year = 2002 | title = A checklist of the Scarabaeoidea (Coleoptera) of Panama | author = Brett C. Ratcliffe | url = http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2002f/z00032f.pdf] Recent research indicates that it is probably not amonophyletic group and may in fact be part of theinfraorder Staphyliniformia . Its constituent families are also undergoing revision presently, and the family list below will soon be outdated."
American Beetles " lists the following families: [cite book | author =Ross H. Arnett, Jr. andMichael C. Thomas | title =American Beetles | publisher =CRC Press | year = 2001–2002]*
Belohinidae Paulian 1959
*Bolboceratidae Laporte de Castelnau, 1840
*Ceratocanthidae White 1842 (= Acanthoceridae)
*Diphyllostomatidae Holloway 1972 (false stag beetle s)
*Geotrupidae Latreille, 1802 (earth-boring dung beetle s)
*Glaphyridae MacLeay, 1819 (bumble bee scarab beetle s)
*Glaresidae Semenov-Tian-Shanskii and Medvedev 1932 (enigmatic scarab beetle s)
*Hybosoridae Erichson, 1847 (scavenging scarab beetle s)
*Lucanidae Latreille 1804 (stag beetle s)
*Ochodaeidae Mulsant and Rey 1871 (sand-loving scarab beetle s)
*Passalidae Leach, 1815 (bess beetle s)
*Pleocomidae LeConte 1861 (rain beetle s)
*Scarabaeidae Latreille 1802 (scarab beetle s)
*Trogidae MacLeay 1819 (hide beetle s)References
External links
* [http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/entomologypapers/3/ Checklist of the Scarabaeoidea of the Nearctic Realm] (2003)
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