Infraorder Elateriformia

Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Coleoptera → suborder Polyphaga → infraorder Elateriformia Crowson, 1960

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Daughter taxa

Subperfamilies: 5 (4 illustrated). Families: 38 (13 illustrated). Subfamilies: 88 (21 illustrated). Tribes: 75 (33 illustrated). Subtribes: 30 (10 illustrated). Genera: 652 (99 illustrated). Subgenera: 175 (35 illustrated). Species.

Buprestoidea Leach, 1815 [superfamily]

Buprestidae, Schizopodidae

Byrrhoidea Latreille, 1804 [superfamily]

Byrrhidae, Callirhipidae, Chelonariidae, Cneoglossidae, Dryopidae, Elmidae, Eulichadidae, Heteroceridae, Limnichidae, Lutrochidae, Psephenidae, Ptilodactylidae

Dascilloidea Guérin-Méneville, 1843 [superfamily]

Dascillidae, Rhipiceridae

Elateroidea Leach, 1815 [superfamily]

Artematopodidae, Brachypsectridae, Cantharidae, Cerophytidae, Drilidae, Elateridae, Eucnemidae, Lampyridae, Lycidae, Omalisidae, Omethidae, Phengodidae, Plastoceridae, Rhagophthalmidae, Telegeusidae, Throscidae

Scirtoidea Fleming, 1821 [superfamily]

Clambidae, Decliniidae, Eucinetidae, Scirtidae

Podabrocephalidae Pic, 1930 [family]

Rhinorhipidae Lawrence, 1988 [family]

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superfamily Buprestoidea Leach, 1815

superfamily Byrrhoidea Latreille, 1804

superfamily Dascilloidea Guérin-Méneville, 1843

superfamily Elateroidea Leach, 1815

superfamily Scirtoidea Fleming, 1821

family Podabrocephalidae Pic, 1930

family Rhinorhipidae Lawrence, 1988