Beetles

Families recorded in forest leaf litter samples in Taiwan

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Suborder Adephaga

• Carabidae — ground beetles
• Dytiscidae — predaceous diving beetles

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Suborder Polyphaga

Staphyliniformia

Hydrophiloidea

• Histeridae — clown beetles
• Hydrophilidae — water scavenger beetles

Staphylinoidea

• Leiodidae — round fungus beetles
• Ptiliidae — featherwing beetles
• Staphylinidae — rove beetles (largest family in the collection!)

Scarabaeiformia

Scarabaeoidea

• Scarabaeidae — scarab beetles

Elateriformia

Scirtoidea

• Clambidae — fringe-winged beetles
• Eucinetidae — eucinetid beetles
• Scirtidae — marsh beetles

Buprestoidea / Elateroidea

• Cantharidae — soldier beetles
• Elateridae — click beetles
• Lampyridae — fireflies
• Lycidae — net-winged beetles
• Prionoceridae
• Rhagophalmidae
• Troscidae
• Ptilodactylidae
• Limnichidae

Bostrichiformia

Bostrichoidea

• Ptinidae — spider beetles & deathwatch beetles

Cucujiformia

Coccinelloidea

• Archeocrypticidae
• Bothrideridae
• Cerylonidae
• Coccinellidae — ladybird beetles
• Corylophidae
• Discolomatidae
• Endomychidae — handsome fungus beetles

Cleroidea

• Cleridae — checkered beetles

Cucujoidea

• Erotylidae — pleasing fungus beetles
• Nitidulidae — sap beetles
• Phalacridae — shining flower beetles
• Silvanidae — silvanid flat bark beetles
• Sphindidae
• Latridiidae — minute brown scavenger beetles

Tenebrionoidea

• Anthicidae — ant-like flower beetles
• Meloidae — blister beetles
• Melandryidae — false darkling beetles
• Oedemeridae — false blister beetles
• Scraptiidae
• Tenebrionidae — darkling beetles
• Zopheridae

Chrysomeloidea

• Cerambycidae — longhorn beetles
• Chrysomelidae — leaf beetles

Curculionoidea

• Apionidae
• Curculionidae — weevils