Cantharoid beetles

{{Short description|Group of beetles}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| name = Cantharoid beetles

| image = Photuris lucicrescens.jpg

| image_alt = Photuris lucicrescens

| image_caption = Photuris lucicrescensCirrus Digital [http://www.cirrusimage.com/beetle_firefly_Photuris_lucicrescens.htm Firefly Photuris lucicrescens]

| taxon = Elateroidea

| authority = Leach, 1815

| subdivision_ranks = Families

| subdivision = 10, see text

}}

The Cantharoid beetles are a group of beetles formerly placed in the now deprecated superfamily Cantharoidea.{{cite journal|journal=Revista Univ Madr |last1=Crowson |first1=R.A. |date=1972 |title=A review of the classification of Cantharoidea (Coleoptera), with the definition of two new families, Cneoglossidae and Omethidae.|volume=21 |pages=35–77}}{{cite book|author=Sybil P. Parker|title=Synopsis and classification of living organisms|url=https://archive.org/details/synopsisclassifi02park/page/510/mode/2up|url-access=registration|year=1982|publisher=McGraw-Hill|isbn=978-0-07-079031-5}} The family was found to be non-monophyletic taxonomic and most former members are now placed within the accepted superfamily Elateroidea.{{cite book |first1=S. A. |last1=Slipinski |first2=R. A. B. |last2=Leschen |first3=J. F. |last3=Lawrence |chapter=Order Coleoptera Linnaeus, 1758. |editor-last=Zhang |editor-first=Z.-Q. |title=Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness |url=https://www.biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/issue/view/zootaxa.3148.1 |chapter-url=https://www.biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.3148.1.39 }} Some former families, Drilidae and Omalisidae, are now placed within Elateridae.{{cite journal |last1=Kusy |first1=D |last2=Motyka |first2=M |last3=Bocek |first3=M |last4=Vogler |first4=AP |last5=Bocak |first5=L |title=Genome sequences identify three families of Coleoptera as morphologically derived click beetles (Elateridae) |journal=Sci. Rep. |year=2018 |volume=8 |issue=1 |page=17084 |doi=10.1038/s41598-018-35328-0 |pmid=30459416 |pmc=6244081 }}. One former family, Cneoglossidae, is now in the superfamily Byrrhoidea.