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Scarabs, Stag Beetles, and Allies
Scarabaeoidea
Scarabaeoidea is a superfamily of beetles, the only subgroup of the infraorder Scarabaeiformia. Around 35,000 species are placed in this superfamily and some 200 new species are described each year. Its constituent families are also undergoing revision presently, and the family list below is only preliminary.
12 branches of this superfamily, most-observed first
Scarabs
familyScarabaeidae
Stag Beetles
familyLucanidae
Earth-boring Beetles
familyGeotrupidae
Bess Beetles
familyPassalidae
Keratin Beetles
familyTrogidae
Scavenger and Pill Scarab Beetles
familyHybosoridae
Bumble Bee Scarab Beetles
familyGlaphyridae
Rain Beetles
familyPleocomidae
Sand-loving Scarab Beetles
familyOchodaeidae
Enigmatic Scarab Beetles
familyGlaresidae
False Stag Beetles
familyDiphyllostomatidae
Belohinidae
familyBelohinidae
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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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 48202.