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Superfamily of beetles
Scarabaeoidea is a
superfamily of
beetles , the only subgroup of the
infraorder Scarabaeiformia . Around 35,000 species are placed in this superfamily and some 200 new species are described each year.
[1] Its constituent families are also undergoing revision presently, and the family list below is only preliminary. This superfamily includes some of the largest beetles extant today, including
rhinoceros beetles , (Dynastinae), the
Hercules beetle (Dynastes hercules ) and
Goliath beetles (Goliathus sp.).
The oldest confirmed member of the group is the
extinct genus
Alloioscarabaeus from the
Middle Jurassic period
Jiulongshan Formation of
Inner Mongolia , China.
[2]
Families
The following families are listed in Bouchard (2011):
[3]
Belohinidae Paulian, 1959
Diphyllostomatidae Holloway, 1972 (
false stag beetles )
Geotrupidae
Latreille , 1802 (
earth-boring dung beetles )
Glaphyridae
MacLeay , 1819 (
bumble bee scarab beetles )
Glaresidae Kolbe, 1905 (
enigmatic scarab beetles )
Hybosoridae
Erichson , 1847 (
scavenging scarab beetles )
Lucanidae Latreille 1804 (
stag beetles )
Ochodaeidae
Mulsant and Rey 1871 (
sand-loving scarab beetles )
Passalidae
Leach , 1815 (
bess beetles )
Pleocomidae LeConte 1861 (
rain beetles )
Scarabaeidae Latreille 1802 (
scarab beetles )
Trogidae MacLeay 1819 (
hide beetles )
†
Coprinisphaeridae Genise, 2004 (
ichnotaxon )
†
Pallichnidae Genise, 2004 (ichnotaxon)
†
Passalopalpidae Boucher, et al., 2016
See also
In
Peru alone, there are 1042 known species of Scarabaeoidea as of 2015.
[4] This is due to Peru's high biodiversity and endemism.
References
^ Brett C. Ratcliffe (2002).
"A checklist of the Scarabaeoidea (Coleoptera) of Panama" (PDF) . Zootaxa (32): 1–48.
^ Bai, Ming; Ahrens, Dirk; Yang, Xing-Ke; Ren, Dong (April 2012).
"New fossil evidence of the early diversification of scarabs: Alloioscarabaeus cheni (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea) from the Middle Jurassic of Inner Mongolia, China: New fossil evidence of scarabs from China" . Insect Science . 19 (2): 159–171.
doi :
10.1111/j.1744-7917.2011.01460.x .
S2CID
54930162 .
^
Bouchard, Patrice; Bousquet, Yves; Davies, Anthony E.; Alonso-Zarazaga, Miguel A.; et al. (2011).
"Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta)" . ZooKeys (88). Pensoft Publishers: 1–972.
doi :
10.3897/zookeys.88.807 .
ISSN
1313-2989 .
PMC
3088472 .
PMID
21594053 .
^ Ratcliffe, B. C.; Jameson, M. L.; Figueroa, L.; Cave, R. D.; Paulsen, M. J.; Cano, Enio B.; Beza-Beza, C.; Jimenez-Ferbans, L.; Reyes-Castillo, P. (2015).
"Beetles (Coleoptera) of Peru: A Survey of the Families. Scarabaeoidea" . Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society . 88 (2): 186–207.
doi :
10.2317/kent-88-02-186-207.1 .
External links
Scarabaeoidea Scarabaeiformia