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| | Coleoptera |
 | | Polyphaga is by far the largest suborder, containing 85% of the known species, including rove beetles, scarabs, stag beetles, metallic wood-boring beetles, click beetles, fireflies, blister beetles, mealworms, ladybirds, leaf beetles, longhorn beetles, and weevils. |
 | | Evidence for the alternative hypothesis, that Polyphaga is the sister group to remaining beetles, is based primarily on characters of wing structure, and on the loss of the cervical sclerites in the three suborders other than Polyphaga (Lawrence and Newton, 1982; Kukalová-Peck and Lawrence, 1993). |
 | | The composition of the clade Coleoptera is not in dispute, with the exception of the twisted-wing parasites, Strepsiptera. |
| tolweb.org /tree?group=Coleoptera&contgroup=Endopterygota (1446 words) |
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