SUPERFAMILY CUCUJOIDEA

• Animals (Kingdom Animalia)

• Arthropods (Phylum Arthropoda)

• Hexapods (Subphylum Hexapoda)

• Insects (Class Insecta)

• Winged and Once-winged Insects (Subclass Pterygota)

• Beetles (Order Coleoptera​​)

• Water, Rove, Scarab, Long-horned, Leaf, and Snout Beetles (Suborder Polyphaga)

• Cucujiform Beetles (Infraorder Cucujiformia)

• Superfamily Cucujoidea

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Superfamily Cucujoidea is a large and diverse group of beetles within the infraorder Cucujiformia of the order Coleoptera. It includes numerous families of small to medium-sized beetles that occupy a wide variety of ecological niches, particularly those associated with fungi, decaying vegetation, sap, stored products, bark, and other organic materials. Members of Cucujoidea display considerable variation in body form and lifestyle, ranging from fungus-feeding and scavenging species to predators and plant-associated beetles.