Cucujoidea

Cucujoidea
Asian Lady Beetle, Harmonia axyridis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Hexapoda
Class:	Insecta
Subclass:	Pterygota
Infraclass:	Neoptera
Superorder:	Endopterygota
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Cucujiformia
Superfamily:	Cucujoidea Latreille, 1802
Families
See text.

Cucujoidea is a superfamily of beetles. They include many fungus beetles, as well as ladybugs. Also included are a diversity of lineages of "bark beetles" unrelated to the "true" bark beetles (Scolytinae), which are weevils (superfamily Curculionidea). Notable among those are the dry bark beetles (Bothrideridae) which parasitize^{[verification needed]} other^{[verification needed]} bark beetles.

Families

• Alexiidae Imhoff, 1856
• Biphyllidae LeConte, 1861 – false skin beetles
• Boganiidae Sen Gupta & Crowson, 1966
• Bothrideridae Erichson, 1845 – dry bark beetles
• Byturidae Jacquelin du Val, 1858 – fruitworm beetles
• Cavognathidae Sen Gupta & Crowson, 1966
• Cerylonidae Billberg, 1820 – minute bark beetles
• Coccinellidae – lady beetles
• Corylophidae LeConte, 1852 – minute fungus beetles
• Cryptophagidae – silken fungus beetles
• Cucujidae – flat bark beetles
• Cyclaxyridae Klimaszewski & Watt, 1997
• Discolomatidae Horn, 1878
• Endomychidae – handsome fungus beetles
• Erotylidae – pleasing fungus beetles (including Cryptophilidae, Dacnidae, Languriidae, Loberidae, Pharaxonothidae, Tritomidae, and Xenoscelidae)
• Helotidae Reitter, 1876
• Hobartiidae Sen Gupta & Crowson, 1966
• Kateretidae Erichson in Agassiz, 1846 – short-winged flower beetles (= Brachypteridae)
• Laemophloeidae Ganglbauer 1899 – lined flat bark beetles
• Lamingtoniidae Sen Gupta & Crowson, 1966
• Latridiidae – minute brown scavenger beetles
• Monotomidae Laporte, 1840 – root-eating beetles
• Myraboliidae Lawrence and Britton, 1991
• Nitidulidae – sap beetles
• Passandridae Erichson, 1845 – parasitic flat bark beetles
• Phalacridae – shining flower beetles
• Phloeostichidae Reitter, 1911
• Propalticidae Crowson, 1952
• Protocucujidae Crowson, 1954
• Silvanidae Kirby, 1937 – silvanid flat bark beetles
• Smicripidae Horn, 1879 – palmetto beetles
• Sphindidae Jacquelin du Val, 1860 – dry-fungus beetles

References

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