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Superfamily Elateroidea - Click, Firefly and Soldier Beetles

Erotides sculptilis glowworm - Phengodes - male Firefly - Photinus Click Beetle? - Melanotus Pyropyga or Ellychnia californica - Ellychnia Chalcolepidius viridipilis (Say) - Chalcolepidius viridipilis - male Black and Orange-Brown Click Beetle  - Ampedus Elateroid - Microrhagus triangularis
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga (Water, Rove, Scarab, Longhorn, Leaf and Snout Beetles)
Superfamily Elateroidea (Click, Firefly and Soldier Beetles)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Jacobsoniidae recently transferred to Derodontoidea (Lawrence et al. 2010)
Numbers
Artematopodidae - Soft-bodied Plant Beetles [chapter 53 (1)]
Brachypsectridae - Texas Beetles [chapter 54 (1)]
Cerophytidae - Rare Click Beetles [chapter 55 (1)]
Eucnemidae - False Click Beetles [chapter 56 (1)]
Throscidae - False Metallic Wood-boring Beetles [chapter 57 (1)]
Elateridae - Click Beetles [chapter 58 (1)]
Lycidae - Net-winged Beetles [chapter 59 (1)]
Telegeusidae - Long-lipped Beetles [chapter 60 (1)]
Phengodidae - Glowworm Beetles [chapter 61 (1)]
Lampyridae - Fireflies [chapter 62 (1)]
Omethidae - False Soldier Beetles [chapter 63 (1)]
Cantharidae - Soldier Beetles [chapter 64 (1)]
Print References
Lawrence J.F., R.G. Beutel, & R.A.B Leschen (2010) Chapter 5. Derodontiformia: Introduction, Phylogeny. In: Leschen R.A.B., R.G. Beutel & J.F. Lawrence (Eds), Handbook of Zoology, Coleoptera Vol. 2: Morphology and Systematics (Elateroidea, Bostrichformia, Cucujiformia partim). Walter de Gruyter, Berlin: 179-180.
Works Cited
1.American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea
By Arnett, R.H., Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.)