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.^[1] Recent research indicates that it is probably not a monophyletic group and may in fact be part of the superfamily Staphyliniformia. Its constituent families are also undergoing revision presently, and the family list below will soon be outdated.
''American Beetles'' lists the following families:^[2]

★ Belohinidae Paulian 1959

★ Bolboceratidae Laporte de Castelnau, 1840

★ Ceratocanthidae White 1842 (= Acanthoceridae)

★ Diphyllostomatidae Holloway 1972 (false stag beetles)

★ Geotrupidae Latreille, 1802 (earth-boring dung beetles)

★ Glaphyridae MacLeay, 1819 (bumble bee scarab beetles)

★ Glaresidae Semenov-Tian-Shanskii and Medvedev 1932 (enigmatic scarab beetles)

★ Hybosoridae Erichson, 1847 (scavenging scarab beetles)

★ Lucanidae Latreille 1804 (stag beetles)

★ Ochodaeidae Mulsant and Rey 1871 (sand-loving scarab beetles)

★ Passalidae Leach, 1815 (bess beetles)

★ Pleocomidae LeConte 1861 (rain beetles)

★ Scarabaeidae Latreille 1802 (scarab beetles)

★ Trogidae MacLeay 1819 (hide beetles)

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1. A checklist of the Scarabaeoidea (Coleoptera) of Panama, Brett C. Ratcliffe, , , Zootaxa, 2002
2. American Beetles, Ross H. Arnett, Jr. and Michael C. Thomas, , , CRC Press, 2001–2002,