Byrrhoidea

Byrrhus pilula

Taxonavigation

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Ordo: Coleoptera
Subordo: Polyphaga
Infraordo: Elateriformia
Superfamilia: Byrrhoidea
Familiae (12): Byrrhidae - Callirhipidae - Chelonariidae - Cneoglossidae - Dryopidae - Elmidae - Eulichadidae - Heteroceridae - Limnichidae - Lutrochidae - Psephenidae - Ptilodactylidae

Name

• Byrrhoidea Latreille, 1804

Synonyms

• Dryopoidea

References

• Costa, C.; Vanin, S.A.; Ide, S. 1999: Systematics and bionomics of Cneoglossidae with a cladistic analysis of Byrrhoidea sensu Lawrence & Newton (1995) (Coleoptera, Elateriformia). Arquivos de Zoologia (São Paulo), 35(3): 231-300.
• Catalogue of Palearctic Coleoptera. Vol. 3 ed. I. Lobl, & A. Smetana, Apollo Books, Stenstrup, Denmark, 2006
  ISBN 87-88757-59-5, p.421

links

• Australian Faunal Directory
• Atlas of beetles of Russia: the superfamily BYRRHOIDEA
• EoL

Vernacular names

English: Pill beetles and allies
norsk bokmål: Pillebiller
русский: Бирроидные