Cucujiformia
infraorder of beetles From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Cucujiformia is an infraorder of polyphagan beetles. It includes most plant-eating beetles.
It has six superfamilies:
- Chrysomeloidea ~7 families including longhorn beetles & leaf beetles
- Cleroidea checkered beetles, bark-gnawing beetles and Melyridae, the soft-winged flower beetles
- Cucujoidea 32 families including ladybirds and fungus beetles
- Curculionoidea ~8 families mostly weevils; also snout beetles and bark beetles
- Lymexylidae (ship-timber beetles)
- Tenebrionoidea (formerly "Heteromera") 30 families including blister beetles and ant-like beetles
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