| Scirtoidea | |
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| Cyphon padi (Scirtidae) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Elateriformia |
| Superfamily: | Scirtoidea Fleming, 1821 |
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Scirtoidea is a superfamily of beetles.[1] It is traditionally considered to consist of four families: Clambidae, Decliniidae, Eucinetidae and Scirtidae.[2] However, genetic studies have suggested that Clambidae and Eucinetidae belong to a separate superfamily Clamboidea, which also includes Derodontidae. Scirtoidea and Clamboidea are the two earliest diverging lineages of living polyphagans.[1]
Two extinct families have also been assigned to this group:
- † Mesocinetidae Kirejtshuk and Ponomarenko 2010 Late Jurassic-Early Cretaceous (Asia)
- † Elodophthalmidae Kirejtshuk and Azar 2008 monotypic, Lebanese amber, Barremian
- ^ a b Cai, Chenyang; Tihelka, Erik; Giacomelli, Mattia; Lawrence, John F.; Ślipiński, Adam; Kundrata, Robin; Yamamoto, Shûhei; Thayer, Margaret K.; Newton, Alfred F.; Leschen, Richard A. B.; Gimmel, Matthew L.; Lü, Liang; Engel, Michael S.; Bouchard, Patrice; Huang, Diying (March 2022). "Integrated phylogenomics and fossil data illuminate the evolution of beetles". Royal Society Open Science. 9 (3): 211771. Bibcode:2022RSOS....911771C. doi:10.1098/rsos.211771. ISSN 2054-5703. PMC 8941382. PMID 35345430.
- ^ Friedrich, F.; Beutel, R. G. (2006). "The pterothoracic skeletomuscular system of Scirtoidea (Coleoptera: Polyphaga) and its implications for the high-level phylogeny of beetles". Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research. 44 (4): 290–315. doi:10.1111/j.1439-0469.2006.00369.x.