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Superfamily Elateroidea Leach 1815 (beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera

Synonym: Artematopoidea Lacordaire 1857

Full reference: W. E. Leach. 1815. Entomology. The Edinburgh Encyclopaedia 9:57-172

Parent taxon: Elateriformia according to R. Kundrata et al. 2023

See also Bouchard et al. 2011, Cai et al. 2022, Crowson 1981 and Lawrence and Newton 1995

Sister taxa: Buprestoidea, Byrrhoidea, Cantharoidea, Dascilloidea, Dryopoidea, Mesosperchus angulatus, Podabrocephalidae

Subtaxa: Anoeuma Artematopodidae Berendtimiridae Brachypsectridae Cantharidae Cerophytidae Cretophengodidae Elateridae Eucnemidae Eudicronychinae Grammocolous Lampyridae Lycidae Microcoleus Mysteriomorphidae Omethidae Phengodidae Rhagophthalmidae Throscidae

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Type: Elater

Ecology:

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