Bostrichoidea

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Kingdom Animalia Scientific name Bostrichoidea Higher classification Bostrichiformia Order Beetle		Infraorder Bostrichiformia Phylum Arthropoda Rank Superfamily

Lower classifications Dermestidae, Anobiidae, Bostrichidae, Varied carpet beetle, Lasioderma serricorne

Bostrichoidea is a superfamily of beetles. It is the type superfamily of the infraorder Bostrichiformia.

It includes the following subgroups:

Anobiidae Fleming 1821 – deathwatch beetles

Ptinidae or Ptininae Latreille 1802 – spider beetles

Bostrichidae Latreille 1802 – horned powderpost beetles, branch and twig borers

Lyctinae or Lyctidae Billberg 1820 – powderpost beetles

Endecatominae or Endecatomidae LeConte 1861

Dermestidae Latreille 1804 – skin beetles

Jacobsoniidae Heller 1926

Nosodendridae Erichson 1846 – wounded-tree beetles

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