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Elateroidea
Superfamily of beetles / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Elateroidea are a large superfamily of beetles. It contains the familiar click beetles, fireflies, and soldier beetles and their relatives. It consists of about 25,000 species.[1]
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Elateroidea | |
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Denticollis linearis, a click beetle (Elateridae) | |
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Coleoptera |
Suborder: | Polyphaga |
Infraorder: | Elateriformia |
Superfamily: | Elateroidea Leach, 1815 |
Families | |
About 15-20, see text |
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