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Bark-gnawing, Checkered, and Soft-winged Flower Beetles
Cleroidea
Cleroidea is a small superfamily of beetles containing over 10,000 species. Most of the members of the group are somewhat slender, often with fairly soft, flexible elytra, and typically hairy or scaly.
19 branches of this superfamily, most-observed first
Soft-winged Flower Beetles
familyMelyridae
Checkered Beetles
familyCleridae
Fruitworm Beetles
familyByturidae
Bark-gnawing Beetles
familyTrogossitidae
Prionoceridae
familyPrionoceridae
Rhadalidae
familyRhadalidae
Peltidae
familyPeltidae
Lophocateridae
familyLophocateridae
Thanerocleridae
familyThanerocleridae
False Skin Beetles
familyBiphyllidae
Thymalidae
familyThymalidae
Phycosecidae
familyPhycosecidae
Phloiophilidae
familyPhloiophilidae
Mauroniscidae
familyMauroniscidae
Chaetosomatidae
familyChaetosomatidae
Rentoniidae
familyRentoniidae
Acanthocnemidae
familyAcanthocnemidae
Protopeltidae
familyProtopeltidae
Gietellidae
familyGietellidae
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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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 55050.