Dromioidea

Dromioidea is a superfamily of crabs mostly found in Madagascar. Dromioidea belongs the group Dromiacea, taxonomically ranked as a section, which is the most basal grouping of Brachyura crabs. Dromiacea likely diverged from the rest of Brachyura around the Late Triassic or Early Jurassic, and the earliest fossils attributable to the Dromioidea date from the Late Jurassic.^[2][3][4]

Dromioidea Temporal range: Late Jurassic–Recent PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Dromia personata, family Dromiidae
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Malacostraca
Order:	Decapoda
Suborder:	Pleocyemata
Infraorder:	Brachyura
Section:	Dromiacea
Superfamily:	Dromioidea De Haan, 1833
Families [1]
Dromiidae Dynomenidae Etyiidae

The below cladogram shows Dromioidea's placement within Dromiacea:^[3]

Dromiacea	Dromioidea Dromiidae (may be paraphyletic) Dynomenidae Homoloidea Homolidae (paraphyletic) Latreilliidae

Recent studies have found that the Dromioidea family Dromiidae may be paraphyletic with respect to Dynomenidae.^[3]