Cucujiformia
infraorder of beetles
The Cucujiformia is an infraorder of polyphagan beetles. It includes most plant-eating beetles.
| Cucujiformia | |
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| Gonipterus gibberus on Casuarina sp | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Cucujiformia Lameere, 1938 |
| Superfamilies | |
It has six superfamilies:
- Chrysomeloidea ~7 families including longhorn beetles & leaf beetles
- Cleroidea checkered beetles, bark-gnawing beetles and Melyridae, the soft-winged flower beetles
- Cucujoidea 32 families including ladybirds and fungus beetles
- Curculionoidea ~8 families mostly weevils; also snout beetles and bark beetles
- Lymexylidae (ship-timber beetles)
- Tenebrionoidea (formerly "Heteromera") 30 families including blister beetles and ant-like beetles