Biology:Coccinelloidea

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Short description: Superfamily of beetles

Coccinelloidea
Temporal range: Early Cretaceous–Recent
7-Spotted-Ladybug-Coccinella-septempunctata-sq1.jpg
Seven-Spotted Ladybug
(Coccinella septempunctata)
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Polyphaga
Infraorder: Cucujiformia
Superfamily: Coccinelloidea
Latreille, 1807
Families

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Coccinelloidea is a superfamily of beetles in the order Coleoptera, formerly included in the superfamily Cucujoidea. There are more than 10,000 species in Coccinelloidea, including more than 6000 in the lady beetle family Coccinellidae.[1][2][3]

Morphology

Adult Coccinelloidea have a reduced tarsal formula (each tarsus with 4 or 3 segments), hind coxae separated by more than 1/3 their width, the intercoxal process of abdominal ventrite 1 usually broadly rounded or truncate, hindwings with reduced anal veins and lacking a closed radial cell, the adeagus resting on its side when retracted and the phallobase usually reduced.[1]

Larval Coccinelloidea have a unisetose pretarsal claw, spiracles that are usually annular, and the sensory appendage of the second antennal segment usually as long as the third segment.[1]

Families

The family constituency of this lineage has changed considerably over time, from as few as four or five recognized families in 1970[4] to 15 in 2015.[5]

Cucujiformia

Lymexyloidea Lymexylon navale

Tenebrionoidea Nephodinus metallescens

Cleroidea

Thaneroclerus buqueti

Chrysomeloidea Chrysomela vigintipunctata

Curculionoidea Curculio nucum

Cucujoidea Palaestes nicaraguae

Coccinelloidea

Bothrideridae and allies Bothrideres bipunctatus

Latridiidae Latridius porcatus

Akalyptoischiidae Akalyptoischion

Alexiidae Sphaerosoma pilosum

Corylophidae and allies Arthrolips obscura

Endomychidae Brachytrycherus bipunctatus.jpg

Coccinellidae Coccinella septempunctata


References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Robertson, James; Slipinski, Adam; Moulton, Matthew; Shockley, Floyd et al. (2015). "Phylogeny and classification of Cucujoidea and the recognition of a new superfamily Coccinelloidea (Coleoptera: Cucujiformia)". Systematic Entomology 40 (4): 745–778. doi:10.1111/syen.12138. ISSN 0307-6970. 
  2. "Coccinelloidea Report". https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=999551. 
  3. Donald Borror; Richard White (1970). A field guide to the insects of America north of Mexico. Houghton Mifflin. ISBN 978-0-395-07436-7. https://archive.org/details/fieldguidetoinse00borr. 
  4. Robertson, James A.; Ślipiński, Adam; Moulton, Matthew et al. (2015). "Phylogeny and classification of Cucujoidea and the recognition of a new superfamily Coccinelloidea (Coleoptera: Cucujiformia)". Systematic Entomology 40 (4): 745–778. doi:10.1111/syen.12138. 

Further reading

Wikidata ☰ Q25406957 entry