Biology:Scirtoidea

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Short description: Superfamily of beetles

Scirtoidea
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Cyphon padi (Scirtidae)
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Polyphaga
Infraorder: Elateriformia
Superfamily: Scirtoidea
Fleming, 1821
Families

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Scirtoidea is a superfamily of beetles.[1] It is traditionally considered to consist of four families: Clambidae, Decliniidae, Eucinetidae and Scirtidae.[2] However, genetic studies have suggested that Clambidae and Eucinetidae belong to a separate superfamily Clamboidea, which also includes Derodontidae. Scirtoidea and Clamboidea are the two earliest diverging lineages of living polyphagans.[1]

Two extinct families have also been assigned to this group:

  • † Mesocinetidae Kirejtshuk and Ponomarenko 2010 Late Jurassic-Early Cretaceous (Asia)
  • † Elodophthalmidae Kirejtshuk and Azar 2008 monotypic, Lebanese amber, Barremian

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Cai, Chenyang; Tihelka, Erik; Giacomelli, Mattia; Lawrence, John F.; Ślipiński, Adam; Kundrata, Robin; Yamamoto, Shûhei; Thayer, Margaret K. et al. (March 2022). "Integrated phylogenomics and fossil data illuminate the evolution of beetles" (in en). Royal Society Open Science 9 (3): 211771. doi:10.1098/rsos.211771. ISSN 2054-5703. PMID 35345430. Bibcode2022RSOS....911771C. 
  2. Friedrich, F.; Beutel, R. G. (2006). "The pterothoracic skeletomuscular system of Scirtoidea (Coleoptera: Polyphaga) and its implications for the high-level phylogeny of beetles". Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research 44 (4): 290–315. doi:10.1111/j.1439-0469.2006.00369.x. 

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q1090480 entry