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Elateroidea  Leach, 1815
Taxonomic Serial No.: 113877

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 Taxonomy and Nomenclature
       
  Kingdom: Animalia  
  Taxonomic Rank: Superfamily  
  Synonym(s): Cantharoidea
 
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  Taxonomic Status:    
  Current Standing: valid  
       
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  Record Credibility Rating: verified - standards met  
  Global Species Completeness: partial   
  Latest Record Review: 2011   
       

 Taxonomic Hierarchy
       
 KingdomAnimalia  – Animal, animaux, animals  
    SubkingdomBilateria  – triploblasts  
       InfrakingdomProtostomia   
          SuperphylumEcdysozoa   
             PhylumArthropoda  – Artrópode, arthropodes, arthropods  
                SubphylumHexapoda  – hexapods  
                   ClassInsecta  – insects, hexapoda, inseto, insectes  
                      SubclassPterygota  – insects ailés, winged insects  
                         InfraclassNeoptera  – modern, wing-folding insects  
                            SuperorderHolometabola   
                               OrderColeoptera Linnaeus, 1758 – beetles, coléoptères, besouro  
                                  SuborderPolyphaga Emery, 1886  
                                     InfraorderElateriformia Crowson, 1960  
                                        SuperfamilyElateroidea Leach, 1815  
    Direct Children:  
                                           FamilyArtematopodidae Lacordaire, 1857  
                                           FamilyBrachypsectridae LeConte and Horn, 1883 – Texas beetle 
                                           FamilyCantharidae Imhoff, 1856 – soldier beetles 
                                           FamilyCerophytidae Latreille, 1834 – cerophytid beetles 
                                           FamilyDrilidae Blanchard, 1845  
                                           FamilyElateridae Leach, 1815 – click beetles 
                                           FamilyEucnemidae Eschscholtz, 1829 – false click beetles 
                                           FamilyLampyridae Rafinesque, 1815 – fireflies, lightningbugs, glow worms, lightning bugs 
                                           FamilyLycidae Laporte, 1836 – net-winged beetles 
                                           FamilyOmalisidae Lacordaire, 1857  
                                           FamilyOmethidae LeConte, 1861  
                                           FamilyPhengodidae LeConte, 1861 – glow-worms 
                                           FamilyPlastoceridae Crowson, 1972  
                                           FamilyRhagophthalmidae Olivier, 1907  
                                           FamilyTelegeusidae Leng, 1920 – telegeusid beetles 
                                           FamilyThroscidae Laporte, 1840 – throseid beetles 
       

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  Source: NODC Taxonomic Code, database (version 8.0)  
  Acquired: 1996   
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  Reference for: Elateroidea   
       
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  Author(s)/Editor(s): Bouchard, P., Y. Bousquet, A. Davies, M. Alonso-Zarazaga, J. Lawrence, C. Lyal, A. Newton, et al.   
  Publication Date: 2011   
  Article/Chapter Title: Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta)   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: ZooKeys, vol. 88   
  Page(s): 1-972   
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  ISBN/ISSN: 1313-2989   
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  Reference for: Elateroidea   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Lawrence, J. F., and A. F. Newton, Jr. / Pakaluk, James, and Stanislaw Adam Slipinski, eds.   
  Publication Date: 1995   
  Article/Chapter Title: Families and subfamilies of Coleoptera (with selected genera, notes, references and data on family-group names)   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Biology, Phylogeny, and Classification of Coleoptera: Papers Celebrating the 80th Birthday of Roy A. Crowson, vol. 2   
  Page(s): 779-1006   
  Publisher: Muzeum i Instytut Zoologii PAN   
  Publication Place: Warszawa, Poland   
  ISBN/ISSN: 83-85192-34-4   
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  Reference for: Elateroidea   
       

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