The PEDIGREE of
Superfamily Elateroidea (Click Beetles, Fireflies, & kin)

 "Child(ren)":       Family Lampyridae (Firefly Beetles)   ;   Anischiidae   ;   Artematopodidae   ;   Brachypsectridae (Texas beetles)   ;   Cantharidae (soldier beetles)   ;   Cerophytidae (rare click beetles)   ;   Drilidae   ;   Elateridae (click beetles)   ;   Eucnemidae (false click beetles)   ;   Lycidae (net-winged beetles)   ;   Omalisidae   ;   Omethidae (false firefly beetles)   ;   Phengodidae (glowworm beetles) & Rhagophthalmidae   ;   Plastoceridae   ;   Podabrocephalidae   ;   Rhinorhipidae   ;   Throscidae (false metallic wood-boring beetles)
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/-- Branch Bilateria   +====> [ 74]
/-- Infrakingdom (Grade) of Coelomates
/   / (skip this generation?)
/-- Subgrade of Protostomia
/   / or: Clade Nephrozoa
/-- Superphylum Ecdysozoa (Arthropods, Roundworms, etc.)
/-- Supraphylum Panarthropoda
/-- Phylum Arthropoda
/-- Subphylum Tetraconata
/   / or: Superclass Panhexapoda in Infraphylum Atelocerata
/-- Epiclass Hexapoda
/-- Class Insecta
/-- Subclass Pterygota (winged insects)
/-- Infraclass Neoptera
/-- Superorder Endopterygota
/-- Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
/-- Suborder Polyphaga
/-- Infraorder Elateriformia (Click Beetles, Jewel Beetles, etc.)
/  
- Superfamily Elateroidea (Click Beetles, Fireflies, & kin)
 

 
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