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Cleroidea  Latreille, 1802
Taxonomic Serial No.: 113844

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 Taxonomy and Nomenclature
       
  Kingdom: Animalia  
  Taxonomic Rank: Superfamily  
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  Current Standing: valid  
       
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  Record Credibility Rating: verified - standards met  
  Global Species Completeness: partial   
  Latest Record Review: 2025   
       

 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  
                                     InfraorderCucujiformia Lameere, 1938  
                                        SuperfamilyCleroidea Latreille, 1802  
    Direct Children:  
                                           Family Acanthocnemidae Crowson, 1964  
                                           Family Biphyllidae J. L. LeConte, 1861  
                                           Family Byturidae Gistel, 1848  
                                           Family Chaetosomatidae Crowson, 1952  
                                           Family Cleridae Latreille, 1802 – checkered beetles 
                                           Family Lophocateridae Crowson, 1964  
                                           Family Mauroniscidae Majer, 1995  
                                           Family Melyridae Leach, 1815 – solf-winged flower beetles 
                                           Family Peltidae W. Kirby, 1837  
                                           Family Phloiophilidae Kiesenwetter, 1863  
                                           Family Phycosecidae Crowson, 1952  
                                           Family Prionoceridae Lacordaire, 1857  
                                           Family Protopeltidae Crowson, 1966  
                                           Family Rentoniidae Crowson, 1966  
                                           Family Rhadalidae J. L. LeConte, 1861  
                                           Family Thanerocleridae Chapin, 1924  
                                           Family Thymalidae Léveillé, 1888  
                                           Family Trogossitidae Latreille, 1802  
       

 References
       
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  Source: Coleoptera type genera and family-group names, database (version May 2025)  
  Acquired: 2025   
  Notes: Bouchard, P. (2024). Coleoptera type genera and family-group names (based largely on Bouchard et al. 2024 paper, doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1194.106440). Database available at https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/290628/about   
  Reference for: Cleroidea   
       
  Source: NODC Taxonomic Code, database (version 8.0)  
  Acquired: 1996   
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  Reference for: Cleroidea   
       
  Publication(s):    
  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: Cleroidea   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Robertson, James A., Adam Slipinski, Matthew Moulton, Floyd W. Shockley, Adriano Giorgi, et al.  
  Publication Date: 2015   
  Article/Chapter Title: Phylogeny and classification of Cucujoidea and the recognition of a new superfamily Coccinelloidea (Coleoptera: Cucujiformia)   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Systematic Entomology, vol. 40, no. 4   
  Page(s): 745-778   
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  ISBN/ISSN: 0307-6970   
  Notes: doi: 10.1111/syen.12138   
  Reference for: Cleroidea   
       

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