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Elateroidea Leach, 1815

Bouchard, Patrice, Bousquet, Yves, Davies, Anthony E., Alonso-Zarazaga, Miguel A., Lawrence, John F., Lyal, Chris H. C., Newton, Alfred F., Reid, Chris A. M., Schmitt, Michael, Ślipinski, S. Adam & Smith, Andrew B. T., 2011, Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta), ZooKeys 88, pp. 1-972 : 144

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 https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.88.807

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scientific name

 Elateroidea Leach, 1815
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Superfamily Elateroidea Leach, 1815 View in CoL View at ENA

Elaterides Leach, 1815: 85 [stem: Elater-]. Type genus: Elater Linnaeus, 1758. Comment: the oldest available name for this superfamily is Cebrionoidea Latreille, 1802, however Elateroidea Leach, 1815 is maintained here pending resolution of an application to the ICZN being prepared by P. J. Johnson (see Lawrence and Newton 1995: 849; P. J. Johnson pers. comm. 2009).

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