Scirtoidea

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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Scirtoidea is a superfamily of beetles in the suborder Polyphaga.

There are four families in this small subfamily:[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.

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