Cucujiformia

Pharaxonotha floridana

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
Superfamiliae (9): Chrysomeloidea – Cleroidea – Coccinelloidea – Cucujoidea – Curculionoidea – Erotyloidea – Lymexyloidea – Nitiduloidea – Tenebrionoidea

incertae sedis: †Parandrexidae – †Wabbelidae

Name

Cucujiformia Lameere, 1938

References

Primary references

• Lameere, A.A. 1938. Évolution des coléoptères. Bulletin & Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 78: 355–362. [not seen]

Additional references

• 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. 
• Farrell, B.D. 1998: "Inordinate fondness" explained: why are there so many beetles? Science, 281: 555–559. [1]
• Ge, S.-Q., Hörnschemeyer, T., Friedrich, F. & Beutel, R.G. 2011. Is Crowsoniella relicta really a cucujiform beetle? Systematic Entomology 36(1): 175–179. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3113.2010.00552.x . ResearchGate . Reference page. 
• Gerlach, J. 2009: Other Cucujiformia. Pp. 157-209 in: Gerlach, J. (ed.) The Coleoptera of the Seychelles Islands. Pensoft Publishers, Sofia-Moscow. ISBN 9789546424983
• Hunt, T., Bergsten, J., Levkanicova, Z., Papadopoulou, A., St. John, O., Wild, R., Hammond, P.M., Ahrens, D., Balke, M., Caterino, M.S., Gómez-Zurita, J., Ribera, I., Barraclough, T.G., Bocakova, M., Bocak, L. & Vogler, A.P. 2007. A comprehensive phylogeny of beetles reveals the evolutionary origins of a superradiation. Science 318: 1913–1916. DOI: 10.1126/science.1146954 . Reference page. 
• Lawrence, J.F. & Newton, A.F. 1995. Families and subfamilies of Coleoptera (with selected genera, notes, references and data on family-group names). Pp. 779–1006. In: Pakaluk, J. & Ślipiński, S.A. (eds.) Biology, Phylogeny, and Classification of Coleoptera: Papers Celebrating the 80th Birthday of Roy A. Crowson. Volume 2. Museum i Instytut Zoologii PAN, Warszawa. x + 1092 pp. in 2 vols. ISBN 83-85192-34-4. ResearchGate . Reference page. 
• Leschen, R.A.B.; Ślipiński, A. 2010: 7. Cucujiformia Lameere, 1938. Introduction, phylogeny. Pp. 227-228 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
• Marvaldi, A.E., Duckett, C.N., Kjer, K.M. & Gillespie, J.J. 2008. Structural alignment of 18S and 28S rDNA sequences provides insights into phylogeny of Phytophaga (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea and Chrysomeloidea). Zoologica Scripta 38(1): 63–77. DOI: 10.1111/j.1463-6409.2008.00360.x . PDF. Reference page. 
• Robertson, J.A., Ślipiński, A., Moulton, M., Shockley, F.W., Giorgi, J.A., Lord, N.P., McKenna, D.D., Tomaszewska, W., Forrester, J., Miller, K.B., Whiting, M.F. & McHugh, J.V. 2015. Phylogeny and classification of Cucujoidea and the recognition of a new superfamily Coccinelloidea (Coleoptera: Cucujiformia). Systematic Entomology 40(4): 745–778. DOI: 10.1111/syen.12138 . ResearchGate . Reference page. 

Links

• Tree of Life Web Project. 1995. Cucujiformia. Version 01 January 1995 (temporary) in The Tree of Life Web Project

Vernacular names

한국어: 머리대장하목
русский: Кукуйиформные
中文: 扁蟲下目

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