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Athous
Genus
Athous
Classification
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Classification
Kingdom
Animalia (Animals)
Phylum
Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum
Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class
Insecta (Insects)
Order
Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder
Polyphaga
No Taxon
(Series Elateriformia)
Superfamily
Elateroidea
Family
Elateridae (Click Beetles)
Subfamily
Dendrometrinae
Tribe
Dendrometrini
Subtribe
Dendrometrina
Genus
Athous
Explanation of Names
Athous
Eschscholtz 1829
Numbers
40 spp. in our area
(
1
)
, ~300 total
(
2
)
Identification
revision/keys in
(
3
)
(
4
)
Range
Holarctic & Oriental
(
2
)
; across NA
(
1
)
Works Cited
1.
Johnson P.J. (2009) Classification of the Nearctic genera of Elateridae
2.
Keys to the insects of the Far East of the USSR, Vol. 3. Coleoptera I
Lehr P.A., ed. 1989. Leningrad, Nauka Publishing House, 572 pp.
3.
Review of the western nearctic species of Athous (Coleoptera: Elateridae), with a key to the species north of Panama
Becker E.C. 1979. Can. Entomol. 111: 569-614.
4.
Revision of the nearctic species of Athous (Coleoptera: Elateridae) east of the Rocky Mountains
Becker E.C. 1974. Can. Entomol. 106: 711-758.
Contributed by
Boris Büche
on 18 May, 2007 - 7:30am
Additional contributions by
Beatriz Moisset
,
v belov
Last updated 28 February, 2015 - 2:36pm