Buprestoidea

Sternocera basalis

Taxonavigation

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Cladus: Pancrustacea
Cladus: Allotriocarida
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Holometabola
Superordo: Coleopterida
Ordo: Coleoptera
Subordo: Polyphaga
Infraordo: Elateriformia
Superfamilia: Buprestoidea
Familiae (2): Buprestidae – Schizopodidae

Buprestoidea incertae sedis: †"Mesohelophorus" mongolicus

Name

Buprestoidea Leach, 1815

References

Primary references

• Leach, W.E. 1815. Entomology [pp. 57–172]. In: Brewster, D. (Ed). Brewster’s Edinburgh Encyclopedia. Volume IX [part I]. W. Blackwood, J. Waugh, etc., Edinburgh, 764 pp. BHL Reference page. 

Additional references

• Bellamy, C.L.; Volkovitsh, M.G. 2005: 17. Buprestoidea Crowson, 1955[sic!]. Pp. 461-468 in: Beutel, R.G. & Leschen, R.A.B. (volume eds.) Coleoptera, Beetles. Volume 1: Morphology and systematics (Archostemata, Adephaga, Myxophaga, Polyphaga partim). In: Kristensen, N.P. & Beutel, R.G. (eds.) Handbook of zoology. A natural history of the phyla of the animal kingdom. Volume IV. Arthropoda: Insecta. Part 38. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter.
• Evans, A.M., McKenna, D.D., Bellamy, C.L.(†) & Farrell, B.D. 2014 (Online) 2015 (Print). Large-scale molecular phylogeny of metallic wood-boring beetles (Coleoptera: Buprestoidea) provides new insights into relationships and reveals multiple evolutionary origins of the larval leaf-mining habit. Systematic Entomology 40(2): 385–400. DOI: 10.1111/syen.12108 Reference page. 
• Fikáček, M., Prokin, A., Angus, R.B., Ponomarenko, A., Yue, Y., Ren, D. & Prokop, J. 2012. Revision of Mesozoic fossils of the helophorid lineage of the superfamily Hydrophiloidea (Coleoptera: Polyphaga). Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 52(1): 89–127. PDF Reference page. 

Links

• Australian Faunal Directory
• Bellamy, Charles L. 1997. Buprestoidea. Version 01 January 1997 (under construction) in The Tree of Life Web Project
• Atlas of beetles of Russia: the superfamily BUPRESTOIDEA
• Simplied Higher Classification Structure of the Superfamily Buprestoidea (sensu Bellamy, 2003)
• EoL

Vernacular names

日本語: タマムシ上科
한국어: 비단벌레상과
lietuvių: Blizgiavabaliniai
norsk: Praktbiller
русский: Бупрестоидные
中文: 吉丁蟲總科

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