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Polyphaga at AllExperts (392 words) |
 | * Cucujiformia - includes lady beetles, longhorn beetles, weevils and leaf beetles. |
| The infraorder Cucujiformia includes the vast majority of phytophagous (plant-eating) beetles, united by cryptonephric Malpighian tubules of the normal type, a cone ommatidium with open rhabdom, and lack of functional spiracles on the eighth abdominal segment. |
| Evidently adoption of a phytophagous lifestyle correlates with speciosity in beetles, with Cucujiformia, especially weevils (Curculionoidea), forming a major radiation. |
| Polyphaga: Definition and Much More from Answers.com (425 words) |
| Bostrichiformia - including furniture beetles and skin beetles. |
| Cucujiformia - includes lady beetles, longhorn beetles, weevils and leaf beetles. |
| Constituent superfamilies of Cucujiformia are Cleroidea, Cucujoidea, Tenebrionoidea, Chrysomeloidea, and Curculionoidea. |
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