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Cucujiformia
Gonipterus gibberus on Casuarina sp
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Cucujiformia Lameere, 1938
Superfamilies
Chrysomeloidea Cleroidea Cucujoidea Curculionoidea Lymexyloidea Tenebrionoidea

Cucujiformia is an infraorder of polyphagan beetles, representing most plant-eating beetles.

The infraorder contains six superfamilies:

• Chrysomeloidea (~7 families including longhorn beetles and leaf beetles)
• Cleroidea (checkered beetles, bark-gnawing beetles and soft-winged flower beetles)
• Cucujoidea (32 families that includes ladybirds, and fungus beetles)
• Curculionoidea (~8 families primarily consisting of weevils and also including snout beetles and bark beetles)
• Lymexyloidea (ship-timber beetles)
• Tenebrionoidea (formerly "Heteromera") (30 families including blister beetles and ant-like beetles)

References

• Data related to Cucujiformia at Wikispecies

External links

• "Cucujiformia". Atlas of Living Australia.

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• Cucujiformia
• Insect infraorders
• Taxa named by Auguste Lameere
• Cucujiformia stubs