Cleroidea

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: Cucujiformia
Superfamilia: Cleroidea
Familiae (18): Acanthocnemidae – Biphyllidae – Byturidae – Chaetosomatidae – Cleridae – Lophocateridae – Mauroniscidae – Melyridae – Peltidae – Phloiophilidae – Phycosecidae – Prionoceridae – Protopeltidae – Rentoniidae – Rhadalidae – Thanerocleridae – Thymalidae – Trogossitidae
[source: Gimmel et al. (2019)]

Genera incertae sedis

†Forticatinius – †Mathesius

Name

Cleroidea Latreille, 1802

References

Primary references

Latreille, P.A. 1802. Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière des crustacés et des insectes. Ouvrage faisant suite à l’histoire naturelle générale et particulière, composée par Leclerc de Buffon, et rédigée par C.S. Sonnini, membre de plusieurs sociétés savantes. Familles naturelles des genres. Tome troisième. F. Dufart, Paris, pp. i-xii + 13–467 [+ 1 (errata)]. BHL Reference page.

Additional references

Beutel, R.G.; Pollock, D.A. 2000: Larval head morphology of Phycosecis litoralis (Pascoe) (Coleoptera: Phycosecidae) with phylogenetic implications. Invertebrate taxonomy, 14: 825–835. DOI: 10.1071/IT00030
Bocakova, M., Constantin, R. & Bocak, L. 2012 (online 2011). Molecular phylogenetics of the melyrid lineage (Coleoptera: Cleroidea). Cladistics 28(2): 117–129. DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-0031.2011.00368.x . Reference page.
Bouchard, P., Bousquet, Y., Davies, A.E., Alonso-Zarazaga, M.A., Lawrence, J.F., Lyal, C.H.C., Newton, A.F., Reid, C.A.M., Schmitt, M., Ślipiński, S.A. & Smith, A.B.T. 2011. Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta). ZooKeys 88: 1–972. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.88.807 . PMC: 3088472 . Reference page.
Cai, C., Tihelka, E., Giacomelli, M., Lawrence, J.F., Ślipiński, A., Kundrata, R., Yamamoto, S., Thayer, M.K., Newton, A.F., Leschen, R.A.B., Gimmel, M.L., Lü, L., Engel, M.S., Bouchard, P., Huang, D., Pisani, D. & Donoghue, P.C.J. 2022. Integrated phylogenomics and fossil data illuminate the evolution of beetles. Royal Society Open Science 9: 211771. DOI: 10.1098/rsos.211771 . [Supplemental material] Reference page.
Chittaro, Y. & Sanchez, A. 2019. Liste commentée des Cleroidea (Coleoptera) de Suisse [Annotated checklist of Cleroidea (Coleoptera) of Switzerland]. Alpine Entomology 3: 141–167. DOI: 10.3897/alpento.3.35994 Reference page.
Crowson, R.A. 1964. A review of the classification of Cleroidea (Coleoptera), with descriptions of two new genera of Peltidae and of several new larval types. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London 116(12): 275–327, plate 1. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2311.1964.tb02298.x . Reference page.
Crowson, R.A. 1970. Further observations on Cleroidea (Coleoptera). Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society of London (B) 39(1–2): 1–20. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3113.1970.tb00247.x Reference page.
Gimmel, M.L., Bocakova, M., Gunter, N.L. & Leschen, R.A.B. 2019. Comprehensive phylogeny of the Cleroidea (Coleoptera: Cucujiformia). Systematic Entomology 44(3): 527–558. DOI: 10.1111/syen.12338 . Reference page.
Hájek, J. & Švihla, V. 2012. Catalogue of the type specimens of beetles (Coleoptera) deposited in the National Museum, Prague, Czech Republic. Trogossitidae, Cleridae, Prionoceridae, Melyridae, Dasytidae, Rhadalidae and Malachiidae. Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 52(2): 603–654. PDF Reference page.
Kirejtshuk, A.G., Ponomarenko, A.G., Prokin, A.A., Chang, H., Nikolajev, G.V. & Ren, D. 2010. Current knowledge of Mesozoic Coleoptera from Daohugou and Liaoning (northeast China). Acta Geologica Sinica (English Edition) 84(4): 783–792. DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-6724.2010.00253.x . PDF. Reference page.
Kolibáč, J. 2004. Metaxinidae fam. nov., a new family of Cleroidea (Coleoptera). Entomologica Basiliensia 26: 239–268. DOI: 10.5169/seals-980831 . Reference page.
Kolibáč, J. & Huang, D.-Y. 2011. Mathesius liaoningensis gen. et sp. nov. of Jehol Biota, a presumptive relative of the clerid or thaneroclerid branches of Cleroidea (Coleoptera). Zootaxa 2872: 1–17. Preview DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2872.1.1 . Plazi. Reference page.
Leschen, R.A.B. 2010: 9. Cleroidea Latreille, 1802. Introduction and phylogeny. Pp. 237-239 in: Leschen, R.A.B.; Beutel, R.G.; Lawrence, J.F. (volume eds.) Coleoptera, beetles. Volume 2: Morphology and systematics (Elateroidea, Bostrichiformia, Cucujiformia 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. ISBN 3110190753 ISBN 9783110190755
I.Löbl & A.Smetana (eds). 2007 Catalogue of Palearctic Coleoptera. Vol. 4: Elateroidea, Derodontoidea, Bostrichoidea, Lymexyloidea, Cleroidea and Cucujoidea. Apollo Books, Stenstrup, Denmark ISBN 87-88757-67-6, p. 363
Mirutenko, V. & Ghahari, H. 2018. Contribution to study of the superfamily Cleroidea (Coleoptera) from Iran and adjacent countries: a checklist of Melyridae, Prionoceridae and Trogossitidae. Zootaxa 4378(1): 40–48. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4378.1.2 Reference page.
Plonski, I.S. & Ghahari, H. 2018. An annotated checklist of the Iranian Dasytidae and Rhadalidae (Coleoptera: Cleroidea). Zootaxa 4472(3): 452–470. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4472.3.2 Reference page.
Tan, J.J. & Ren, D. 2007. Two exceptionally well-preserved catiniids (Coleoptera: Archostemata: Catiniidae) from the Late Mesozoic of northeastern China. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 100(5): 666–672. DOI: 10.1603/0013-8746(2007)100[666:TEWCCA]2.0.CO;2 .

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Vernacular names

suomi: Kirjokuoriasmaiset
magyar: Szúfarkasszerűek
日本語: カッコウムシ上科
中文: 郭公蟲總科

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