Byrrhoidea

Superfamily of beetles

Pill beetles and allies

Byrrhus pilula
Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Arthropoda
Class:  | Insecta
Order:  | Coleoptera
Suborder:  | Polyphaga
Infraorder:  | Elateriformia
Superfamily:  | Byrrhoidea
Families

Byrrhidae \- pill beetles
Callirhipidae \- cedar beetles
Chelonariidae \- turtle beetles
Cneoglossidae
Dryopidae \- long-toed water beetles
Elmidae \- riffle beetles
Eulichadidae \- forest stream beetles
Heteroceridae \- variegated mud loving beetles
Limnichidae \- minute mud beetles
Lutrochidae \- travertine beetles
Psephenidae \- water pennies
Ptilodactylidae

Byrrhoidea is a superfamily of beetles belonging to Elateriformia[1] that includes several families which are either aquatic or associated with a semi-aquatic habitat. Other than the superfamily Hydrophiloidea, most of the remaining Polyphagan beetles which are aquatic are in this superfamily.

## Description[edit]

Adults of many Byrrhoidea have exocone eyes (with expanded corneal lens). The anterior edge of the scutellar shield is often abruptly elevated (except in Psephenidae and Cneoglossidae). A variety of byrrhoids have the first three abdominal ventrites solidly fused together.[2]

Larvae of most Limnichidae have one pair of anal hooks on the tenth abdominal segment, while Cneoglossidae and Ptilodactylidae have three or more hooks on each side of this segment. Larvae of Lutrochidae and Elmidae, as well as the limnichid genus Hyphalus, have anal gill tufts. Almost all byrrhoid larvae have anterior abdominal spiracles that are biforous (or bilabiate) in shape.[2]

The degree of wing development varies among Byrrhoidea, with macroptery (wings fully developed), brachyptery (wings reduced), microptery (wings reduced to small remnants) and aptery (no wings) all occurring in the superfamily. Within family Elmidae, subfamily Larainae has only macropterous wings, while other wing types are common in subfamily Elminae. Within family Dryopidae, the genera with aquatic or semiaquatic adults are almost always macropterous, while genera with terrestrial adults are almost always apterous and the subterranean Stygoparnus is micropterous.[3]

## Ecology[edit]

Byrrhoids mainly occur in aquatic and semi-aquatic habitats, including rapid cool streams, underneath rocks and wood in flowing water, waterside vegetation and rocks, emergent vegetation in water, damp soil and sandy shorelines.[4][5][6][7][8] The Dryopidae are notable in that while their adults live in or near water, their larvae are usually terrestrial.[5]

Byrrhoids are generally herbivorous, feeding on algae, moss, liverworts, lichens or grass roots.[4][5][6][7][8]

## Phylogeny[edit]

Byrrhoidea in its current state may not be monophyletic.[9] Multiple studies have found Buprestoidea to be nested within it.[2][10] Recent phylogenies have split out the grouping Dryopoidea, including Dryopidae, Elmidae, Limnichidae, Heteroceridae, Chelonariidae, Eulichadidae, Callirphidae, Ptilodactylidae and the extinct family Mastigocoleidae.[11][12], with phylogenies finding the group more closely related to Elateroidea than to Byrhhidae.[12]

## References[edit]

1. ^ Kundrata, Robin; Bocakova, Milada; Bocak, Ladislav (July 2014). "The comprehensive phylogeny of the superfamily Elateroidea (Coleoptera: Elateriformia)". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 76: 162–171. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2014.03.012. PMID 24680915.
2. ^ a b c Lawrence, John F.; Ślipiński, Adam; Seago, Ainsley E.; Thayer, Margaret K.; Newton, Alfred F.; Marvaldi, Adriana E. (2011). "Phylogeny of the Coleoptera Based on Morphological Characters of Adults and Larvae". Annales Zoologici. 61 (1): 1–217. doi:10.3161/000345411X576725. ISSN 0003-4541. S2CID 86592276.
3. ^ Shepard, William D. (2019-03-25). "Flight Wing Polymorphisms in Elmidae and Dryopidae (Coleoptera: Byrrhoidea)". The Coleopterists Bulletin. 73 (1): 27. doi:10.1649/0010-065X-73.1.27. ISSN 0010-065X. S2CID 109349094.
4. ^ a b "Family Byrrhidae - Pill Beetles". bugguide.net. Retrieved 2022-11-30.
5. ^ a b c "Family Dryopidae - Long-toed Water Beetles". bugguide.net. Retrieved 2022-11-30.
6. ^ a b "Family Elmidae - Riffle Beetles". bugguide.net. Retrieved 2022-11-30.
7. ^ a b "Family Psephenidae - Water Penny Beetles". bugguide.net. Retrieved 2022-11-30.
8. ^ a b "Family Limnichidae - Minute Marsh-loving Beetles". bugguide.net. Retrieved 2022-11-30.
9. ^ Beutel, Rolf G.; Leschen, Richard A.B., eds. (2016-03-21), "19. Byrrhoidea Latreille, 1804", Coleoptera, Beetles. Morphology and Systematics, De Gruyter, pp. 553–654, doi:10.1515/9783110373929-022, ISBN 978-3-11-037392-9, retrieved 2022-11-29
10. ^ Kundrata, Robin; Jäch, Manfred A.; Bocak, Ladislav (2017). "Molecular phylogeny of the Byrrhoidea-Buprestoidea complex (Coleoptera, Elateriformia)". Zoologica Scripta. 46 (2): 150–164. doi:10.1111/zsc.12196. S2CID 88952348.
11. ^ Tihelka, Erik; Jäch, Manfred A; Kundrata, Robin; Li, Yan-Da; Engel, Michael S; Lozano-Fernandez, Jesus; Huang, Diying; Cai, Chenyang (2022-05-01). Marvaldi, Adriana (ed.). "Mastigocoleidae fam. nov., a New Mesozoic Beetle Family and the Early Evolution of Dryopoidea (Coleoptera)". Insect Systematics and Diversity. 6 (3): 3. doi:10.1093/isd/ixac011. ISSN 2399-3421.
12. ^ a b Cai, Chenyang; Tihelka, Erik; Giacomelli, Mattia; Lawrence, John F.; Ślipiński, Adam; Kundrata, Robin; Yamamoto, Shûhei; Thayer, Margaret K.; Newton, Alfred F.; Leschen, Richard A. B.; Gimmel, Matthew L.; Lü, Liang; Engel, Michael S.; Bouchard, Patrice; Huang, Diying (23 March 2022). "Integrated phylogenomics and fossil data illuminate the evolution of beetles". Royal Society Open Science. 9 (3): 211771. doi:10.1098/rsos.211771. ISSN 2054-5703. PMC 8941382. PMID 35345430.

## External links[edit]

* Data related to Byrrhoidea at Wikispecies

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Extant Coleoptera families

* Kingdom: Animalia
* Phylum: Arthropoda
* Class: Insecta
* Subclass: Pterygota
* Infraclass: Neoptera
* Superorder: Endopterygota

Suborder Archostemata

* Crowsoniellidae (Crowsoniella relicta)
* Cupedidae (reticulated beetles)
* Jurodidae (Sikhotealinia zhiltzovae)
* Micromalthidae (telephone-pole beetle)
* Ommatidae

Suborder Adephaga

| Extant families|

* Amphizoidae (trout-stream beetles)
* Aspidytidae
* Carabidae (ground beetles)
* Cicindelidae (tiger beetles)
* Dytiscidae (predaceous diving beetles)
* Gyrinidae (whirligig beetles)
* Haliplidae (crawling water beetles)
* Hygrobiidae
* Meruidae (Meru phyllisae)
* Noteridae (burrowing water beetles)
* Trachypachidae (false ground beetles)

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Suborder Myxophaga

* Hydroscaphidae (skiff beetles)
* Lepiceridae
* Sphaeriusidae
* Torridincolidae

Suborder Polyphaga

| Bostrichiformia|

| Bostrichoidea|

* Bostrichidae (auger beetles)
* Dermestidae (skin beetles)
* Jacobsoniidae (Jacobson's beetles)
* Nosodendridae (wounded-tree beetles)
* Ptiniidae (furniture beetles, death watch beetles, spider beetles)

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Derodontoidea|

* Derodontidae (tooth-necked fungus beetles)

Cucujiformia|

| Chrysomeloidea|

* Cerambycidae (longhorn beetles)
* Chrysomelidae (leaf beetles)
* Disteniidae
* Megalopodidae
* Orsodacnidae
* Oxypeltidae
* Vesperidae

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Cleroidea|

* Acanthocnemidae (Acanthocnemus nigricans)
* Chaetosomatidae
* Cleridae (checkered beetles)
* Mauroniscidae
* Melyridae (soft-wing flower beetles)
* Metaxinidae
* Phloiophilidae (Phloiophilus edwardsi)
* Phycosecidae
* Prionoceridae
* Thanerocleridae
* Trogossitidae (bark-gnawing beetles)

Cucujoidea|

* Alexiidae
* Biphyllidae (false skin beetles)
* Boganiidae
* Bothrideridae (dry bark beetles)
* Byturidae (fruitworm beetles)
* Cavognathidae
* Cerylonidae (minute bark beetles)
* Coccinellidae (lady beetles, or God's cows)
* Corylophidae (minute fungus beetles)
* Cryptophagidae (silken fungus beetles)
* Cucujidae (flat bark beetles)
* Cyclaxyridae
* Discolomatidae
* Endomychidae (handsome fungus beetles)
* Erotylidae (pleasing fungus beetles)
* Helotidae
* Hobartiidae
* Kateretidae (short-winged flower beetles)
* Laemophloeidae (lined flat bark beetles)
* Lamingtoniidae (Lamingtonium binnaberrense)
* Latridiidae (minute brown scavenger beetles)
* Monotomidae (root-eating beetles)
* Myraboliidae
* Nitidulidae (sap beetles)
* Passandridae (parasitic flat bark beetles)
* Phalacridae (shining flower beetles)
* Phloeostichidae
* Propalticidae
* Protocucujidae
* Silvanidae (silvanid flat bark beetles)
* Smicripidae (palmetto beetles)
* Sphindidae (dry-fungus beetles)

Curculionoidea
(weevils)|

* Anthribidae (fungus weevils)
* Attelabidae (leaf-rolling weevils)
* Belidae (primitive weevils)
* Brentidae (straight snout weevils, New York weevil)
* Caridae
* Curculionidae (true weevils, bark beetles, ambrosia beetles)
* Nemonychidae (pine flower weevils)

Lymexyloidea|

* Lymexylidae (ship-timber beetles)

Tenebrionoidea|

* Aderidae (ant-like leaf beetles)
* Anthicidae (ant-like flower beetles)
* Archeocrypticidae (cryptic fungus beetles)
* Boridae (conifer bark beetles)
* Chalcodryidae
* Ciidae (minute tree-fungus beetles)
* Melandryidae (false darkling beetles)
* Meloidae (blister beetles)
* Mordellidae (tumbling flower beetles)
* Mycetophagidae (hairy fungus beetles)
* Mycteridae (palm and flower beetles)
* Oedemeridae (false blister beetle)
* Perimylopidae, or Promecheilidae
* Prostomidae (jugular-horned beetles)
* Pterogeniidae
* Pyrochroidae (fire-coloured beetles)
* Pythidae (dead log bark beetles)
* Ripiphoridae (wedge-shaped beetles)
* Salpingidae (narrow-waisted bark beetles)
* Scraptiidae (false flower beetles)
* Stenotrachelidae (false longhorn beetles)
* Synchroidae (synchroa bark beetles)
* Tenebrionidae (darkling beetles)
* Tetratomidae (polypore fungus beetles)
* Trachelostenidae
* Trictenotomidae
* Ulodidae
* Zopheridae (ironclad beetles, cylindrical bark beetles)

Elateriformia|

| Buprestoidea|

* Buprestidae (jewel beetles, or metallic wood-boring beetles)
* Schizopodidae

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Byrrhoidea|

* Byrrhidae (pill beetles)
* Callirhipidae (cedar beetles)
* Chelonariidae (turtle beetles)
* Cneoglossidae
* Dryopidae (long-toed water beetles)
* Elmidae (riffle beetles)
* Eulichadidae (forest stream beetles)
* Heteroceridae (variegated mud-loving beetles)
* Limnichidae (minute mud beetles)
* Lutrochidae (travertine beetles)
* Psephenidae (water-penny beetles)
* Ptilodactylidae

Dascilloidea|

* Dascillidae (soft bodied plant beetles)
* Rhipiceridae (cicada beetle, cicada parasite beetles)

Elateroidea|

* Artematopodidae (soft-bodied plant beetles)
* Brachypsectridae (Texas beetles)
* Cantharidae (soldier beetles)
* Cerophytidae (rare click beetles)
* Elateridae (click beetles)
* Eucnemidae (false click beetles)
* Jurasaidae
* Lampyridae (fireflies)
* Lycidae (net-winged beetles)
* Omethidae (false fireflies, long-lipped beetles)
* Phengodidae (glowworm beetles)
* Rhagophthalmidae
* Sinopyrophoridae
* Throscidae (false metallic wood-boring beetles)

Rhinorhipoidea|

* Rhinorhipidae (Rhinorhipus tamborinensis)

Scirtoidea|

* Clambidae
* Decliniidae (Declinia relicta)
* Eucinetidae (plate-thigh beetles)
* Scirtidae

Scarabaeiformia|

| Scarabaeoidea|

* Belohinidae (Belohina inexpectata)
* Bolboceratidae
* Diphyllostomatidae (false stag beetles)
* Geotrupidae (dor beetles)
* Glaphyridae (bumble bee scarab beetles)
* Glaresidae (enigmatic scarab beetles)
* Hybosoridae (scavenger scarab beetles)
* Lucanidae (stag beetles)
* Ochodaeidae (sand-loving scarab beetles)
* Passalidae (betsy beetles)
* Pleocomidae (rain beetles)
* Scarabaeidae (scarabs)
* Trogidae (hide beetles)

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Staphyliniformia|

| Histeroidea|

* Histeridae (clown beetles)
* Sphaeritidae (false clown beetles)
* Synteliidae

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Hydrophiloidea|

* Epimetopidae
* Georissidae (minute mud-loving beetles)
* Helophoridae
* Hydrochidae
* Hydrophilidae (water scavenger beetles)
* Spercheidae

Staphylinoidea|

* Agyrtidae (primitive carrion beetles)
* Hydraenidae
* Leiodidae (round fungus beetles)
* Ptiliidae (feather-winged beetles)
* Silphidae (carrion beetles)
* Staphylinidae (rove beetles)

List of subgroups of the order Coleoptera

Taxon identifiers|

* Wikidata: Q1090104
* Wikispecies: Byrrhoidea
* AFD: Byrrhoidea
* BugGuide: 40613
* CoL: 4VS
* EoL: 361
* Fauna Europaea: 11146
* Fauna Europaea (new): 7829d271-335c-43d0-b88c-53d749f4aed4
* Fossilworks: 69315
* iNaturalist: 130839
* ITIS: 113996
* NBN: NHMSYS0001717420
* NCBI: 107942
* NZOR: 2e5ba0f4-49ae-4100-ae58-30e1d4ab335c

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