Scarabaeoidea

Scarabaeiformia
Lucanus cervus, a stag beetle
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Scarabaeiformia Crowson, 1960
Superfamily:	Scarabaeoidea Latreille, 1802
Families
See text.

Wikispecies has information related to: Scarabaeoidea

Scarabaeoidea is a superfamily of beetles, the only subgroup of the infraorder Scarabaeiformia. Around 35,000 species are placed in this superfamily and some 200 new species are described each year.^[1] Its constituent families are also undergoing revision presently, and the family list below will soon be outdated.

American Beetles lists the following families:^[2]

• Belohinidae Paulian 1959
• Bolboceratidae Laporte de Castelnau, 1840
• Ceratocanthidae White 1842 (= Acanthoceridae)
• Diphyllostomatidae Holloway 1972 (false stag beetles)
• Geotrupidae Latreille, 1802 (earth-boring dung beetles)
• Glaphyridae MacLeay, 1819 (bumble bee scarab beetles)
• Glaresidae Semenov-Tian-Shanskii and Medvedev 1932 (enigmatic scarab beetles)
• Hybosoridae Erichson, 1847 (scavenging scarab beetles)
• Lucanidae Latreille 1804 (stag beetles)
• Ochodaeidae Mulsant and Rey 1871 (sand-loving scarab beetles)
• Passalidae Leach, 1815 (bess beetles)
• Pleocomidae LeConte 1861 (rain beetles)
• Scarabaeidae Latreille 1802 (scarab beetles)
• Trogidae MacLeay 1819 (hide beetles)

References

1. ^ Brett C. Ratcliffe (2002). "A checklist of the Scarabaeoidea (Coleoptera) of Panama". Zootaxa (32): 1–48. http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2002f/z00032f.pdf. 
2. ^ Ross H. Arnett, Jr. and Michael C. Thomas (2001–2002). American Beetles. CRC Press. 

External links

• Checklist of the Scarabaeoidea of the Nearctic Realm (2003)