Cleroidea

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The status, affinity, scope or nomenclature of this taxon is disputed. Please see discussion on the talk page.

[edit] Taxonavigation

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Cladus: Eukaryota
Supergroup: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Cladus: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Cladus: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Endopterygota
Superordo: Coleopterida
Ordo: Coleoptera
Subordo: Polyphaga
Infraordo: Cucujiformia
Superfamilia: Cleroidea
Familiae: [after Kolibáč (2004)]

• melyrid branch: Acanthocnemidae - Attalomimidae - Dasytidae - Gietellidae - Malachiidae - Mauroniscidae - Melyridae - Phycosecidae - Prionoceridae

• trogossitid branch: Phloiophilidae - Trogossitidae

• clerid branch: Cleridae

• thaneroclerid branch: Chaetosomatidae - Metaxinidae - Thanerocleridae

[edit] Name

Cleroidea Latreille, 1802

[edit] References

• Beutel, R.G.; Pollock, D.A. 2000: Larval head morphology of Phycosecis litoralis (Pascoe) (Coleoptera: Phycosecidae) with phylogenetic implications. Invertebrate taxonomy, 14: 825-835. [1]
• Crowson, R.A. 1964: A review of the classification of Cleroidea (Coleoptera), with descriptions of two new genera of Peltidae and of several new larval types. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London, 116: 275-327, plate 1.
• Crowson, R.A. 1970: Further observations on Cleroidea (Coleoptera). Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society of London (B), 39: 1-20. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-3113.1970.tb00247.x
• Kolibáč, J. 2004: Metaxinidae fam. nov., a new family of Cleroidea (Coleoptera). Entomologica Basiliensia, 26: 239-268.

[edit] links

• Australian Faunal Directory
• Tree of Life Web Project. 1995. Cleroidea. Version 01 January 1995 (temporary) in The Tree of Life Web Project
• Atlas of beetles of Russia: the superfamily CLEROIDEA

[edit] Vernacular names

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