Homoloidea

{{Short description|Superfamily of crabs}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| fossil_range = {{fossil_range|Late Jurassic|Recent}}

| image = Paromola cuvieri.jpg

| image_caption = Paromola cuvieri

| taxon = Homoloidea

| authority = De Haan, 1839

| subdivision_ranks = Families

| subdivision =

• Homolidae
• Latreilliidae
• Poupiniidae

}}

Homoloidea is a superfamily of dromiacean crabs. Homoloidea belongs the group Dromiacea, taxonomically ranked as a section, and is the sister group to Dromioidea. Dromiacea is the most basal grouping of Brachyura crabs, and likely diverged from the rest of Brachyura around the Late Triassic or Early Jurassic.{{cite journal |title=Evolutionary History of True Crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura) and the Origin of Freshwater Crabs |author1=Ling Ming Tsang |author2=Christoph D. Schubart |author3=Shane T. Ahyong |author4=Joelle C.Y. Lai |author5=Eugene Y.C. Au |author6=Tin-Yam Chan |author7=Peter K.L. Ng |author8=Ka Hou Chu |journal=Molecular Biology and Evolution |publisher=Oxford University Press |volume=31 |issue=5 |year=2014 |pages=1173–1187 |doi=10.1093/molbev/msu068 |doi-access=free|pmid=24520090 }}{{cite journal |last1=Wolfe |first1=Joanna M. |last2=Breinholt |first2=Jesse W. |last3=Crandall |first3=Keith A. |last4=Lemmon |first4=Alan R. |last5=Lemmon |first5=Emily Moriarty |last6=Timm |first6=Laura E. |last7=Siddall |first7=Mark E. |last8=Bracken-Grissom |first8=Heather D. |title=A phylogenomic framework, evolutionary timeline and genomic resources for comparative studies of decapod crustaceans |journal=Proceedings of the Royal Society B | date=24 April 2019 |volume=286 |issue=1901 |doi=10.1098/rspb.2019.0079 |pmid=31014217 |doi-access=free |pmc=6501934 }} The close relation between Homoloidea and Dromioidea is primarily established through ultrastructural characteristics of the sperm.{{cite book |url=http://atiniui.nhm.org/pdfs/3839/3839.pdf |title=An Updated Classification of the Recent Crustacea |author=Joel W. Martin & George E. Davis |year=2001 |pages=1–132 |publisher=Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County |access-date=2009-12-14 |archive-date=2013-05-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130512091254/http://atiniui.nhm.org/pdfs/3839/3839.pdf |url-status=dead }}

The below cladogram shows Homoloidea's placement within Dromiacea:

{{clade| style=font-size:85%; line-height:85%

|label1=Dromiacea

|1={{clade

|label1=Dromioidea

|1={{clade

|1=Dromiidae (may be paraphyletic)

|2=Dynomenidae }}

|label2=Homoloidea

|2={{clade

|1=Homolidae (paraphyletic)

|2=Latreilliidae }} }} }}

Recent studies have found that the Homoloidea family Homolidae is paraphyletic with respect to Latreilliidae.