Polyphaga

Polyphaga
Cetonia aurata
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga Emery, 1886
Infraorders
Bostrichiformia Cucujiformia Elateriformia Scarabaeiformia Staphyliniformia

The Polyphaga is the largest and most diverse suborder of beetles. The name is got from two Greek words: poly-, meaning 'many', and phagein, meaning 'to eat', so the suborder is called the “eaters of many things”. Polyphaga has 144 families in 16 superfamilies, and shows an enormous variety of specialization and adaptation. It has over 315,000 described species, about 90% of all beetle species so far discovered.^[1][2]

1. ↑ Grimaldi D. and Engel M.S. 2005. Evolution of the insects. Cambridge University Press, p371. ISBN 0-521-82149-5
2. ↑ Johnson, Norman F. & Triplehorn, Charles A. 2004. Borror and DeLong's introduction to the study of insects. 7th ed, Belmont:Brooks/Cole, 365–400, 428–429. ISBN 0-03-096835-6