List of Families

for

A Distributional Checklist of the Beetles (Coleoptera) of Florida

(arrangement follows Lawrence & Newton, 1995)

SUBORDER ARCHOSTEMATA

• Micromalthidae
• Cupedidae

SUBORDER ADEPHAGA

• Gyrinidae
• Haliplidae
• Noteridae
• Dytiscidae
• Rhysodidae
• Carabidae

SUBORDER POLYPHAGA

Series Staphyliniformia

Superfamily Hydrophiloidea

• Hydrophilidae
• Histeridae

Superfamily Staphylinoidea

• Hydraenidae
• Ptiliidae
• Agyrtidae
• Leiodidae
• Scydmaenidae
• Silphidae
• Staphylinidae

Series Scarabaeiformia

Superfamily Scarabaeoidea

• Lucanidae
• Passalidae
• Trogidae
• Geotrupidae
• Ochodaeidae
• Ceratocanthidae
• Hybosoridae
• Scarabaeidae

Superfamily Scirtoidea

• Eucinetidae
• Scirtidae
• Clambidae
• Rhipiceridae

Superfamily Buprestoidea

• Buprestidae

Superfamily Byrrhoidea

• Dryopidae
• Elmidae
• Limnichidae
• Heteroceridae
• Psephenidae
• Callirhipidae
• Ptilodactylidae
• Chelonariidae

Superfamily Elateroidea

• Cerophytidae
• Eucnemidae
• Throscidae
• Elateridae
• Lycidae
• Phengodidae
• Lampyridae
• Cantharidae

Series Bostrichiformia

Superfamily Derodontoidea

• Derodontidae

Superfamily Bostrichoidea

• Jacobsoniidae
• Nosodendridae
• Dermestidae
• Endecatomidae
• Bostrichidae
• Anobiidae

Series Cucujiformia

Superfamily Lymexyloidea

• Lymexylidae

Superfamily Cleroidea

• Trogositidae
• Cleridae
• Melyridae

Superfamily Cucujoidea

• Sphindidae
• Nitidulidae
• Monotomidae
• Smicripidae
• Silvanidae
• Laemophloeidae
• Passandridae
• Phalacridae
• Cryptophagidae
• Languriidae
• Erotylidae
• Biphyllidae
• Bothrideridae
• Cerylonidae
• Endomychidae
• Discolomatidae
• Coccinellidae
• Corylophidae
• Latridiidae

Superfamily Tenebrionoidea

• Mycetophagidae
• Archeocrypticidae
• Ciidae
• Tetratomidae
• Melandryidae
• Mordellidae
• Rhipiphoridae
• Colydiidae
• Monommatidae
• Tenebrionidae
• Synchroidae
• Oedemeridae
• Meloidae
• Salpingidae
• Mycteridae
• Pyrochroidae
• Anthicidae
• Aderidae
• Scraptiidae

Superfamily Chrysomeloidea

• Cerambycidae
• Chrysomelidae

Superfamily Curculionoidea

• Nemonychidae
• Anthribidae
• Belidae
• Attelabidae
• Brentidae
• Ithyceridae
• Curculionidae