Tenebrionoidea

Tenebrionoidea
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Central European Tenebrionoidea with some anatomical details
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Cucujiformia
Superfamily:	Tenebrionoidea Latreille, 1802
Families
See text.

The Tenebrionoidea are a very large and diverse superfamily of beetles. It generally corresponds to the Heteromera of earlier authors.

It contains these families:

• Aderidae Winkler 1927 (ant-like leaf beetles)
• Anthicidae Latreille 1819 (ant-like flower beetles)
• Archeocrypticidae Kaszab 1964
• Boridae C. G. Thomson 1859
• Chalcodryidae Watt 1974
• Ciidae Leach 1819 (minute tree-fungus beetles) (= Cisidae)
• Melandryidae Leach 1815 (false darkling beetles)
• Meloidae Gyllenhal 1810 (blister beetles)
• Mordellidae Latreille 1802 (tumbling flower beetles)
• Mycetophagidae Leach 1815 (hairy fungus beetles)
• Mycteridae Blanchard 1845
• Oedemeridae Latreille 1810 (false blister beetles)
• Perimylopidae St. George 1939
• Prostomidae C. G. Thomson 1859
• Pterogeniidae Crowson 1953
• Pyrochroidae Latreille 1807 (fire-colored beetles, etc.)
• Pythidae Solier 1834
• Ripiphoridae Gemminger and Harold 1870 (wedge-shaped beetles) (= Rhipiphoridae)
• Salpingidae Leach 1815 (narrow-waisted bark beetles, etc.)
• Scraptiidae Mulsant 1856 (false flower beetles)
• Stenotrachelidae C. G. Thomson 1859 (false long-horned beetles) (= Cephaloidae)
• Synchroidae Lacordaire 1859
• Tenebrionidae Latreille 1802 (darkling beetles)
• Tetratomidae Billberg 1820
• Trachelostenidae Lacordaire 1859
• Trictenotomidae Blanchard 1845
• Ulodidae Pascoe 1869
• Zopheridae Solier 1834 (ironclad beetles, cylindrical bark beetles, etc.)

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