Bostrichiformia is an
infraorder of
polyphaga
Polyphaga is the largest and most diverse suborder of beetles. It comprises 144 families in 16 superfamilies, and displays an enormous variety of specialization and adaptation, with over 350,000 described species, or approximately 90% of the b ...
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beetles.
It contains two superfamilies,
Derodontoidea and
Bostrichoidea
Bostrichoidea is a superfamily of beetles. It is the type superfamily of the infraorder Bostrichiformia.
Description
The Bostrichoidea are united by the following features: modified cryptonephridism, the structure of the aedeagus in males, and ...
, which includes the
Dermestidae,
Ptinidae,
Bostrichidae and others.
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References
Insect infraorders
Taxa named by William Trowbridge Merrifield Forbes
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