Cleroidea

Trichodes alvearius

Taxonavigation

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Cladus: Pancrustacea
Cladus: Allotriocarida
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Holometabola
Superordo: Coleopterida
Ordo: Coleoptera
Subordo: Polyphaga
Infraordo: Cucujiformia
Superfamilia: Cleroidea
Familiae (18 + 1†): Acanthocnemidae – Biphyllidae – Byturidae – Chaetosomatidae – Cleridae – Lophocateridae – Mauroniscidae – Melyridae – Peltidae – Phloiophilidae – Phycosecidae – Prionoceridae – Protopeltidae – Rentoniidae – Rhadalidae – Thanerocleridae – Thymalidae – Trogossitidae – †Boleopsidae
[source: Gimmel et al. (2019)]

Genera incertae sedis

†Forticatinius – †Mathesius

Name

Cleroidea Latreille, 1802

References

Primary references

• Latreille, P.A. 1802. Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière des crustacés et des insectes. Ouvrage faisant suite à l’histoire naturelle générale et particulière, composée par Leclerc de Buffon, et rédigée par C.S. Sonnini, membre de plusieurs sociétés savantes. Familles naturelles des genres. Tome troisième. F. Dufart, Paris, pp. i-xii + 13–467 [+ 1 (errata)]. BHL Reference page. 

Additional 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. DOI: 10.1071/IT00030
• Bocakova, M., Constantin, R. & Bocak, L. 2012 (online 2011). Molecular phylogenetics of the melyrid lineage (Coleoptera: Cleroidea). Cladistics 28(2): 117–129. DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-0031.2011.00368.x . Reference page. 
• Bouchard, P., Bousquet, Y., Davies, A.E., Alonso-Zarazaga, M.A., Lawrence, J.F., Lyal, C.H.C., Newton, A.F., Reid, C.A.M., Schmitt, M., Ślipiński, S.A. & Smith, A.B.T. 2011. Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta). ZooKeys 88: 1–972. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.88.807 . PMC: 3088472 . Reference page. 
• Chittaro, Y. & Sanchez, A. 2019. Liste commentée des Cleroidea (Coleoptera) de Suisse [Annotated checklist of Cleroidea (Coleoptera) of Switzerland]. Alpine Entomology 3: 141–167. DOI: 10.3897/alpento.3.35994 Reference page. 
• 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(12): 275–327, plate 1. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2311.1964.tb02298.x . Reference page. 
• Crowson, R.A. 1970. Further observations on Cleroidea (Coleoptera). Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society of London (B) 39(1–2): 1–20. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3113.1970.tb00247.x Reference page. 
• Gimmel, M.L., Bocakova, M., Gunter, N.L. & Leschen, R.A.B. 2019. Comprehensive phylogeny of the Cleroidea (Coleoptera: Cucujiformia). Systematic Entomology 44(3): 527–558. DOI: 10.1111/syen.12338 . Reference page. 
• Hájek, J. & Švihla, V. 2012. Catalogue of the type specimens of beetles (Coleoptera) deposited in the National Museum, Prague, Czech Republic. Trogossitidae, Cleridae, Prionoceridae, Melyridae, Dasytidae, Rhadalidae and Malachiidae. Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 52(2): 603–654. PDF Reference page. 
• Kirejtshuk, A.G., Ponomarenko, A.G., Prokin, A.A., Chang, H., Nikolajev, G.V. & Ren, D. 2010. Current knowledge of Mesozoic Coleoptera from Daohugou and Liaoning (northeast China). Acta Geologica Sinica (English Edition) 84(4): 783–792. DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-6724.2010.00253.x . PDF. Reference page. 
• Kolibáč, J. 2004. Metaxinidae fam. nov., a new family of Cleroidea (Coleoptera). Entomologica Basiliensia 26: 239–268. ResearchGate . Reference page. 
• Kolibáč, J. & Huang, D.-Y. 2011. Mathesius liaoningensis gen. et sp. nov. of Jehol Biota, a presumptive relative of the clerid or thaneroclerid branches of Cleroidea (Coleoptera). Zootaxa 2872: 1–17. Preview DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2872.1.1 . Plazi. Reference page. 
• Leschen, R.A.B. 2010: 9. Cleroidea Latreille, 1802. Introduction and phylogeny. Pp. 237-239 in: Leschen, R.A.B.; Beutel, R.G.; Lawrence, J.F. (volume eds.) Coleoptera, beetles. Volume 2: Morphology and systematics (Elateroidea, Bostrichiformia, Cucujiformia partim). In: Kristensen, N.P. & Beutel, R.G. (eds.) Handbook of zoology. A natural history of the phyla of the animal kingdom. Volume IV. Arthropoda: Insecta. Part 38. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter. ISBN 3110190753 ISBN 9783110190755
• I.Löbl & A.Smetana (eds). 2007 Catalogue of Palearctic Coleoptera. Vol. 4: Elateroidea, Derodontoidea, Bostrichoidea, Lymexyloidea, Cleroidea and Cucujoidea. Apollo Books, Stenstrup, Denmark ISBN 87-88757-67-6, p. 363
• Mirutenko, V. & Ghahari, H. 2018. Contribution to study of the superfamily Cleroidea (Coleoptera) from Iran and adjacent countries: a checklist of Melyridae, Prionoceridae and Trogossitidae. Zootaxa 4378(1): 40–48. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4378.1.2 Reference page. 
• Plonski, I.S. & Ghahari, H. 2018. An annotated checklist of the Iranian Dasytidae and Rhadalidae (Coleoptera: Cleroidea). Zootaxa 4472(3): 452–470. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4472.3.2 Reference page. 
• Tan, J.J.; Ren, D. 2007: Two exceptionally well-preserved catiniids (Coleoptera: Archostemata: Catiniidae) from the late mesozoic of northeastern China. Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 100: 666–672. DOI: 10.1603/0013-8746(2007)100[666:TEWCCA]2.0.CO;2 PDF

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
• EoL

Vernacular names

suomi: Kirjokuoriasmaiset
magyar: Szúfarkasszerűek
日本語: カッコウムシ上科
中文: 郭公蟲總科

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