Scarabaeidae

Scarab beetle
Central European scarab beetles with some anatomical details. Edmund Reitter's Fauna Germanica, 1908
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Scarabaeiformia
Superfamily:	Scarabaeoidea
Family:	Scarabaeidae Latreille, 1802
Subfamilies[1][2][3]
Aclopinae Blanchard, 1850 Aegialiinae Laporte, 1840 Allidiostomatinae Arrow, 1940 Aphodiinae Leach, 1815 Aulonocneminae Janssens, 1946 Cetoniinae Leach, 1815 Chironinae Blanchard, 1845 Dynamopodinae Arrow, 1911 Dynastinae MacLeay, 1819 Eremazinae Stebnicka, 1977 Hopliinae Latreille, 1829 Lichniinae Burmeister, 1844 Melolonthinae MacLeay, 1819 Oncerinae LeConte, 1861 Orphninae Erichson, 1847 Pachydeminae Reitter, 1902 Phaenomeridinae Erichson, 1847 Podolasiinae Howden, 1997 Rutelinae MacLeay, 1819 Scarabaeinae Latreille, 1802 Sericinae Kirby, 1837 Sericoidinae Erichson, 1847 Termitotroginae Wasmann, 1918 Trichiinae Kolbe, 1897 Valginae Schenkling, 1922 † Cretoscarabaeinae Nikolajev, 1995 † Electrorubesopsinae Bai & Wang, 2018 † Lithoscarabaeinae Nikolajev, 1992 † Prototroginae Nikolajev, 2000

The family Scarabaeidae, as currently defined, consists of over 35,000 species of beetles worldwide; they are often called scarabs or scarab beetles. The classification of this family has undergone significant change in recent years. Several groups formerly treated as subfamilies have been elevated to family rank (e.g., Bolboceratidae, Geotrupidae, Glaresidae, Glaphyridae, Hybosoridae, Ochodaeidae, and Pleocomidae), and some reduced to lower ranks. The subfamilies listed in this article are in accordance with those in Catalog of Life (2023).^[3]