Order Coleoptera
(beetles)

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Scientific names for Aves taxonomy (family and below) are from The Howard and Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World, Princeton University Press, copyright 2003. Used by permission.

• Parent taxa
  
  
  
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  Superorder Neoptera
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  Holometabola
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  Order Coleoptera (beetles)
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  Suborder Adephaga
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  Family Amphizoidae (trout-stream beetles)
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  Family Carabidae (ground beetles)
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  Family Cicindelidae (tiger beetles)
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  Family Dytiscidae (predaceous diving beetles)
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  Family Gyrinidae (whirligig beetles)
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  Family Haliplidae (crawling water beetles)
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  Family Noteridae (burrowing water beetles)
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  Family Rhysodidae (wrinkled bark beetles)
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  Suborder Archostemata
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  Family Cupedidae (reticulated beetles)
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  Family Micromalthidae (micromalthid beetles and telephone-pole beetles)
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  Suborder Myxophaga
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  Family Hydroscaphidae (skiff beetles and water scavenger beetles)
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  Family Sphaeriidae (minute bog beetles)
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  Suborder Polyphaga
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  Superfamily Bostrichoidea
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  Family Anobiidae (anobiid beetles)
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  Family Bostrichidae (branch and twig borers)
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  Family Lyctidae (powder-post beetles)
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  Family Ptinidae (spider beetles)
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  Superfamily Buprestoidea
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  Family Buprestidae (metallic wood-boring beetle)
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  Superfamily Byrrhoidea
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  Family Byrrhidae (pill beetles)
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  Superfamily Cantharoidea
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  Family Cantharidae (soldier beetles)
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  Family Lampyridae (fireflies and lightningbugs)
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  Family Lycidae (net-winged beetles)
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  Family Phengodidae (glow-worms)
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  Family Telegeusidae (telegeusid beetles)
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  Superfamily Chrysomeloidea
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  Family Bruchidae (seed beetles)
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  Family Cerambycidae (long-horned beetles and sawyer beetles)
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  Family Chrysomelidae (leaf beetles)
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  Superfamily Cleroidea
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  Family Cleridae (checkered beetles)
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  Family Melyridae (solf-winged flower beetles)
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  Family Trogositidae (bark-gnawing beetles)
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  Superfamily Cucujoidea
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  Family Byturidae (fruitworm beetles)
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  Family Cerylonidae (cerylonid beetles)
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  Family Ciidae (minute tree-fungus beetles)
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  Family Coccinellidae (lady beetles and ladybird beetles)
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  Family Corylophidae (minute fungus beetles)
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  Family Cryptophagidae (silken fungus beetles)
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  Family Cucujidae (flat bark beetles)
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  Family Discolomidae
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  Family Endomychidae (handsome fungus beetles)
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  Family Erotylidae (pleasing fungus beetles)
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  Family Languriidae (lizard beetles)
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  Family Lathridiidae (minute brown scavenger beetles)
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  Family Mycetophagidae (hairy fungus beetles)
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  Family Nitidulidae (sap beetles)
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  Family Phalacridae (shining flower beetles)
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  Family Rhizophagidae (root-eating beetles)
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  Family Sphindidae (dry-fungus beetles)
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  Superfamily Curculionoidea
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  Family Aglycyderidae
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  Family Anthribidae (fungus weevils)
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  Family Apionidae
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  Family Brentidae (straight-snouted weevils)
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  Family Curculionidae (snout beetles and weevils)
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  Family Platypodidae (pin-hole borers)
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  Family Scolytidae (ambrosia beetles, bark beetles, engraver beetles, and timber beetles)
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  Superfamily Dascilloidea
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  Family Clambidae (fringe-winged beetles)
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  Family Dascillidae (soft-bodied plant beetles)
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  Family Eucinetidae (plate-thigh beetles)
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  Family Geotrupidae
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  Family Helodidae (marsh beetles)
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  Family Rhipiceridae (cedar beetles)
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  Superfamily Dermestoidea
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  Family Dermestidae (dermestid beetles and skin beetles)
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  Family Derodontidae (tooth-necked fungus beetles)
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  Family Jacobsoniidae
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  Family Nosodendridae (wounded-tree beetles)
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  Superfamily Dryopoidea
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  Family Artematopidae (artematopid beetles)
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  Family Brachypsectridae (the texas beetle)
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  Family Callirhipidae (callirhipid beetles)
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  Family Chelonariidae (chelonarid beetles)
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  Family Dryopidae (long-toe water beetles)
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  Family Elmidae (riffle beetles)
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  Family Heteroceridae (variegated mud-loving beetles)
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  Family Limnichidae (minute marsh-loving beetles)
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  Family Psephenidae (water-penny beetles)
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  Family Ptilodactylidae (ptilodactylid beetles)
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  Superfamily Elateroidea
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  Family Cebrionidae (cebrionid beetles)
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  Family Cerophytidae (cerophytid beetles)
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  Family Elateridae (click beetles)
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  Family Eucnemidae (false click beetles)
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  Family Perothopidae (perothopid beetles)
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  Family Throscidae (throseid beetles)
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  Superfamily Histeroidea
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  Family Histeridae (hister beetles)
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  Family Sphaeritidae (false clown beetles)
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  Superfamily Hydrophiloidea
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  Family Georyssidae (minute mud-loving beetles)
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  Family Hydraenidae (minute moss beetles)
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  Family Hydrophilidae (water scavenger beetles)
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  Superfamily Lymexylonoidea
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  Family Lymexylonidae (ship-timber beetles)
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  Superfamily Melooidea
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  Family Anthicidae (antlike flower beetles)
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  Family Euglenidae (antlike leaf beetles)
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  Family Meloidae (blister beetles)
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  Family Mordellidae (tumbling flower beetles)
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  Family Pedilidae (pedilid beetles)
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  Family Rhipiphoridae (wedge-shaped beetles)
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  Superfamily Scarabaeoidea
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  Family Lucanidae (stag beetles)
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  Family Passalidae (bess beetles)
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  Family Scarabaeidae (scarab beetles)
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  Family Trogidae
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  Superfamily Staphylinoidea
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  Family Dasyceridae (dasycerid beetles)
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  Family Leiodidae (round fungus beetles)
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  Family Leptinidae (beaver parasites and mammal-nest beetles)
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  Family Limulodidae (horseshoe crab beetles)
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  Family Pselaphidae (short-winged mold beetles)
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  Family Ptiliidae (feather-winged beetles)
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  Family Scaphidiidae (shining fungus beetles)
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  Family Scydmaenidae (antlike stone beetles)
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  Family Silphidae (carrion beetles)
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  Family Staphylinidae (rove beetles)
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  Superfamily Tenebrionoidea
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  Family Alleculidae (comb-clawed beetles)
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  Family Cephaloidae (false longhorn beetles)
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  Family Colydiidae (cylindrical bark beetles)
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  Family Inopeplidae (inopeplid beetles)
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  Family Lagriidae (long-jointed beetles)
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  Family Melandryidae (false darkling beetles)
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  Family Monommidae (monommid beetles)
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  Family Mycteridae (mycterid beetles)
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  Family Oedemeridae (false blister beetles)
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  Family Othniidae (false tiger beetles)
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  Family Pyrochroidae (fire-colored beetles)
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  Family Salpingidae (narrow-waisted bark beetles)
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  Family Tenebrionidae (darkling beetles)