Cantharoid beetles
| Cantharoid beetles | |
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| Photuris lucicrescens[1] | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Elateriformia |
| Superfamily: | Elateroidea Leach, 1815 |
| Families | |
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The Cantharoid beetles are a group of beetles formerly placed in the now deprecated superfamily Cantharoidea[2][3]. The family was found to be non-monophyletic taxonomic and most former members are now placed within the accepted superfamily Elateroidea.[4] Some former families, Drilidae and Omalisidae, are now placed within Elateridae.[5] One former family, Cneoglossidae, is now in the superfamily Byrrhoidea.[4]
Families
The superfamily contained ten families.[2][3] These are now families in Elateroidea,[4] except where indicated.
- Brachypsectridae Leconte & Horn, 1883 (Texas beetles).
- Cneoglossidae Champion, 1897. Now treated as a family in the superfamily Byrrhoidea.[4]
- Homalisidae . This monotypic family contained the genus Homalisus, which is now treated as genus Omalisus in subfamily Omalisinae of Elateridae.
- Lycidae Laporte, 1836 (net-winged beetles)
- Drilidae Blanchard, 1845 (false firefly beetles). Now treated as tribe Drilini in subfamily Agryoninae of Elateridae.
- Phengodidae LeConte 1861 (glowworm beetles)
- Telegeusidae Leng, 1920 (long-lipped beetles). Sometimes treated as subfamily of Omethidae.
- Lampyridae Rafinesque, 1815 (firefly beetles)
- Omethidae LeConte, 1861 – (false soldier beetles)
- Cantharidae Imhoff, 1856 (1815) (soldier beetles)
References
- ^ Cirrus Digital Firefly Photuris lucicrescens
- ^ a b Crowson, R.A. (1972). "A review of the classification of Cantharoidea (Coleoptera), with the definition of two new families, Cneoglossidae and Omethidae". Revista Univ Madr. 21: 35–77.
- ^ a b Sybil P. Parker (1982). Synopsis and classification of living organisms. McGraw-Hill. ISBN 978-0-07-079031-5.
- ^ a b c d Slipinski, S. A.; Leschen, R. A. B.; Lawrence, J. F. "Order Coleoptera Linnaeus, 1758.". In Zhang, Z.-Q. (ed.). Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness.
- ^ Kusy, D; Motyka, M; Bocek, M; Vogler, AP; Bocak, L (2018). "Genome sequences identify three families of Coleoptera as morphologically derived click beetles (Elateridae)". Sci. Rep. 8 (1): 17084. doi:10.1038/s41598-018-35328-0. PMC 6244081. PMID 30459416..
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