Cleroidea

Trichodes alvearius

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: Cucujiformia
Superfamilia: Cleroidea
Familiae: Acanthocnemidae – †Boleopsidae – Chaetosomatidae – Cleridae – Mauroniscidae – Melyridae – Metaxinidae – Phloiophilidae – Phycosecidae – Prionoceridae – Thanerocleridae – Trogossitidae

[source: Bouchard et al. (2011)]

Genera incertae sedis

†Forticatinius – †Mathesius

Name

• Cleroidea Latreille, 1802

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. (early view, 2011): Molecular phylogenetics of the melyrid lineage (Coleoptera: Cleroidea). Cladistics, 27: 1–13. doi: 10.1111/j.1096-0031.2011.00368.x
• 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 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
• 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
• 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. Full article (PDF) reference page 
• Kirejtshuk, A.G. et al. 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
• Kolibáč, J. 2004. Metaxinidae fam. nov., a new family of Cleroidea (Coleoptera). Entomologica basiliensia 26: 239–268. PDF 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
• 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
• 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

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

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