Cucujiformia
Infraorder of beetles / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Cucujiformia is an infraorder of polyphagan beetles, representing most plant-eating beetles.[1]
Cucujiformia | |
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Cucujiformia | |
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Gonipterus gibberus on Casuarina sp | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Coleoptera |
Suborder: | Polyphaga |
Infraorder: | Cucujiformia Lameere, 1938 |
Superfamilies | |
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The infraorder contains the seven superfamilies:
- Chrysomeloidea (~7 families including longhorn beetles and leaf beetles)
- Cleroidea (checkered beetles, bark-gnawing beetles and soft-winged flower beetles)
- Coccinelloidea (15 families, includes ladybirds and fungus beetles)
- Cucujoidea (~27 families)
- Curculionoidea (~8 families primarily consisting of weevils and also including snout beetles and bark beetles)
- Lymexyloidea (ship-timber beetles)
- Tenebrionoidea (formerly "Heteromera") (30 families including blister beetles and ant-like beetles)