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Click, Firefly, and Soldier Beetles
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Click, Firefly, and Soldier Beetles

Elateroidea

The Elateroidea are a large superfamily of beetles. It contains the familiar click beetles, fireflies, and soldier beetles and their relatives.

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19 branches of this superfamily, most-observed first

Click Beetles

familyElateridae

Soldier Beetles

familyCantharidae

Fireflies

familyLampyridae

Net-winged Beetles

familyLycidae

Glowworm Beetles

familyPhengodidae

Small false click beetles

familyThroscidae

False Click Beetles

familyEucnemidae

Soft-bodied Plant Beetles

familyArtematopodidae

Omalisidae

familyOmalisidae

Asian Glowworms

familyRhagophthalmidae

False Soldier Beetles and False Fireflies

familyOmethidae

Texas beetles

familyBrachypsectridae

Long-lipped Beetles

familyTelegeusidae

Rare Click Beetles

familyCerophytidae

Plastoceridae

familyPlastoceridae

Jurasaidae

familyJurasaidae

Sinopyrophoridae

familySinopyrophoridae

Iberobaeniidae

familyIberobaeniidae

Badmaateridae

familyBadmaateridae

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 47207.