Bostrichoidea
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Bostrichoidea is a superfamily of beetles.
It includes the following subgroups:
- Anobiidae Fleming 1821 (death watch beetles)
- Ptinidae or Ptininae Latreille 1802 (spider beetles)
- Bostrichidae Latreille 1802 (horned powder-post beetles)
- Lyctinae or Lyctidae Billberg 1820 (powder post beetles)
- Endecatominae or Endecatomidae LeConte 1861
- Dermestidae Latreille 1804 (skin beetles)
- Thorictinae or Thorictidae Agassiz 1846
- Jacobsoniidae Heller 1926 (Jacobson's beetles)
- Nosodendridae Erichson 1846 (wounded-tree beetles)
