Coleopterida
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
(unranked): Holometabola
Clade: Aparaglossata
Clade: Neuropteroidea
Clade: Coleopterida
Orders

Coleopterida is a superorder of insects consisting of the orders Coleoptera and Strepsiptera. It is established as the sister group of Neuropterida based on phylogenetic analysis of DNA sequence data. The grouping is also supported by morphological data.[3]

References

  1. ^ Rolf G. Beutel; Evgeny V. Yan; Jarmila Kukalová-Peck (2019). "Is †Skleroptera (†Stephanastus) an order in the stemgroup of Coleopterida (Insecta)?". Insect Systematics & Evolution. 50 (5): 670–678. doi:10.1163/1876312X-00002187. S2CID 90936851.
  2. ^ Alexander G. Kirejtshuk; Andre Nel (2019). "Reply to the Paper "Beutel et al. 2018. Is †Skleroptera (†Stephanastus) an order in the stemgroup of Coleopterida (Insecta)?"". Insect Systematics & Evolution. 51 (3): 375–383. doi:10.1163/1876312X-00002206. S2CID 202027899.
  3. ^ Beutel, Rolf G.; Pohl, Hans; Yan, Evgeny V.; Anton, Eric; Liu, Si-Pei; Ślipiński, Adam; McKenna, Duane; Friedrich, Frank (January 2019). "The phylogeny of Coleopterida (Hexapoda) - morphological characters and molecular phylogenies: Phylogeny of Coleopterida". Systematic Entomology. 44 (1): 75–102. doi:10.1111/syen.12316. S2CID 92390950.
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