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Elateriform Beetles
Elateriformia
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.
6 branches of this group, most-observed first
Click, Firefly, and Soldier Beetles
superfamilyElateroidea
Buprestoidea
superfamilyBuprestoidea
Pill, Water and Toe-winged Beetles
superfamilyByrrhoidea
Scirtoidea
superfamilyScirtoidea
Dascilloidea
superfamilyDascilloidea
Rhinorhipoidea
superfamilyRhinorhipoidea
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the stacks
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Every page naming Elateriformia in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
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 372854.