Elateriformia

Elateriformia
Adelocera murina, a click beetle
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Polyphaga
Infraorder: Elateriformia
Crowson, 1960
Superfamilies

See text.

Elateriformia is an infraorder of polyphagan beetles. The two largest families in this group are buprestids, of which there are around 15,000 described species, and click beetles, of which there are around 10,000 described species.

The infraorder consists of five superfamilies :

See also

List of subgroups of the order Coleoptera

Data related to Elateriformia at Wikispecies

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