| Scarab beetle
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Central European scarab beetles
with some anatomical details. Edmund Reitter's Fauna Germanica, 1908
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| Scientific classification
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| Kingdom:
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Animalia
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| Phylum:
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Arthropoda
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| Class:
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Insecta
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| Order:
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Coleoptera
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| Suborder:
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Polyphaga
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| Infraorder:
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Scarabaeiformia
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| Superfamily:
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Scarabaeoidea
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| Family:
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Latreille, 1802
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| Subfamilies[1][2][3]
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- Aclopinae Blanchard, 1850
- Aegialiinae Laporte, 1840
- Allidiostomatinae Arrow, 1940
- Aphodiinae Leach, 1815
- Aulonocneminae Janssens, 1946
- Cetoniinae Leach, 1815
- Chironinae Blanchard, 1845
- Dynamopodinae Arrow, 1911
- Dynastinae MacLeay, 1819
- Eremazinae Stebnicka, 1977
- Hopliinae Latreille, 1829
- Lichniinae Burmeister, 1844
- Melolonthinae MacLeay, 1819
- Oncerinae LeConte, 1861
- Orphninae Erichson, 1847
- Pachydeminae Reitter, 1902
- Phaenomeridinae Erichson, 1847
- Podolasiinae Howden, 1997
- Rutelinae MacLeay, 1819
- Scarabaeinae Latreille, 1802
- Sericinae Kirby, 1837
- Sericoidinae Erichson, 1847
- Termitotroginae Wasmann, 1918
- Trichiinae Kolbe, 1897
- Valginae Schenkling, 1922
- † Cretoscarabaeinae Nikolajev, 1995
- † Electrorubesopsinae Bai & Wang, 2018
- † Lithoscarabaeinae Nikolajev, 1992
- † Prototroginae Nikolajev, 2000
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The family Scarabaeidae, as currently defined, consists of over 35,000 species of beetles worldwide; they are often called scarabs or scarab beetles. The classification of this family has undergone significant change. Several groups formerly treated as subfamilies have been elevated to family rank (e.g., Bolboceratidae, Geotrupidae, Glaresidae, Glaphyridae, Hybosoridae, Ochodaeidae, and Pleocomidae), and some reduced to lower ranks. The subfamilies listed in this article are in accordance with those in Catalog of Life (2023).[3]
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