Scarabaeoidea

Lucanus cervus

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Animalia — Arthropoda

Classis : Insecta 
Ordo : Coleoptera 
Subordo : Polyphaga 
Infraordo : Scarabaeiformia 
Superfamilia : Scarabaeoidea 
Latreille, 1802

   

Subdivisiones: Familiae

Vide commentarium.

Scarabaeoidea sunt sola infraordinis Scarabaeiformium superfamilia, cui sunt circa 35 000 species, et fere ducentae species novae in anno describuntur (Ratcliffe 2002). Eius familiae continenter retractantur, cum index infra scriptus mox obsoletus sit.

American Beetles (Arnett et Thomas 2001–2002) has familias et species indicat:

• Belohinidae Paulian, 1959
• Bolboceratidae Laporte de Castelnau, 1840
• Ceratocanthidae White, 1842 (= Acanthoceridae)
• Diphyllostomatidae Holloway, 1972
• Geotrupidae Latreille, 1802
• Glaphyridae MacLeay, 1819
• Glaresidae Semenov-Tian-Shanskii et Medvedev, 1932
• Hybosoridae Erichson, 1847
• Lucanidae Latreille, 1804
• Ochodaeidae Mulsant et Rey, 1871
• Passalidae Leach, 1815
• Pleocomidae LeConte, 1861
• Scarabaeidae Latreille, 1802
  • Xylotrupes: Xylotrupes ulysses
• Trogidae MacLeay, 1819
  • Omorgus: Omorgus alternans

Bibliographia

• Arnett, Ross H., Jr., et Michael C. Thomas. 2001–2002. American Beetles. CRC Press.
• Ratcliffe, Brett C. 2002. "A checklist of the Scarabaeoidea (Coleoptera) of Panama." Zootaxa 32:1–48.

Nexus externi

Vide "Scarabaeoidea" apud Vicispecies.

• Index Scarabaeoideorum Dominii Nearctici (2003)