SCARABAEOIDEA Latreille, 1802
(scarabs, dung and stag beetles)

Subtaxon	Rank	Featured subtaxa	No of images	No of ID refs
GEOTRUPIDAE dumbledor beetles	Family	5 subtaxa	97 images	3 ident. refs
LUCANIDAE stag and rhinocerus beetles	Family	3 subtaxa	99 images	2 ident. refs
SCARABAEIDAE scarab, dung and carrion beetles	Family	21 subtaxa	150 images	18 ident. refs
TROGIDAE hide beetles	Family			1 ident. refs

Taxonomic hierarchy:

Superfamily	SCARABAEOIDEA (scarabs, dung and stag beetles)
Series	Scarabaeiformia (scarabs, dung and stag beetles)
Suborder	POLYPHAGA (mainly terrestrial beetles)
Order	COLEOPTERA (beetles)
Division	Endopterygota (bees, beetles, flies, moths and other insects with wings developing internally)
Infraclass	Neoptera (bees, beetles, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other advanced insects)
Subclass	PTERYGOTA (bees, beetles, dragonflies, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other winged insects)
Class	INSECTA (true insects)
Subphylum	HEXAPODA (insects and other 6-legged organisms)
Phylum	ARTHROPODA (arthropods)
Superphylum	ECDYSOZOA (skin shedders)
Clade	Bilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
Subkingdom	EUMETAZOA (metazoans)
Kingdom	ANIMALIA (animals)
Domain	Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
Life	BIOTA (living things)

SCARABAEOIDEA is also a member of:
Invertebrates - Invertebrates (via Arthropoda)

Identification Works

	Author	Year	Title	Source
	Baraud, J.	1992	Coléoptères Scarabaeoidea d’Europe	Faune de France, Faune No 78, 868pp, Fédération Française des Sociétés de Science Naturel
	Britton, E.B.	1956	* Coleoptera Scarabaeoidea *(Superseded)	Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects, Vol 5, Part 11, 29pp, The Royal Entomological Society of London
	Jessop, L.	1986	Dung Beetles and Chafers (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea)	Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects, Vol 5, Part 11, New edition, 53pp, The Royal Entomological Society of London
Larvae
	van Emden, F.I.	1941	Larvae of British Beetles II: A key to the British Lamellicornia larvae	Ent. Mon. Mag. 77: 117-127,18-192.

SCARABAEOIDEA (scarabs, dung and stag beetles) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

COLEOPTERA
(beetles)

INSECTA
(true insects)

HEXAPODA
(insects and other 6-legged organisms)

ARTHROPODA
(arthropods)

ANIMALIA
(animals)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

NBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for SCARABAEOIDEA (scarabs, dung and stag beetles)

BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 311 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for SCARABAEOIDEA (scarabs, dung and stag beetles)

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Taxonomic hierarchy:

SCARABAEOIDEA is also a member of:

Identification Works

Larvae

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