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Species Nitidolimonius resplendens - Green Click Beetle

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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 Nitidolimonius
Species resplendens (Green Click Beetle)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
=Ctenicera resplendens (Eschscholtz)
Numbers
two indistinct subspecies(1)
Size
11-14 mm(1)
Range
LB-RI-NY-ON; ID(2)(3); NF-AK to PA & CA(1)
Habitat
variously-aged coniferous, deciduous, and mixed forests; on poplar (Populus), willow (Salix), or on shrubs; adults often found on the spring growth of conifers along margins of wetlands and drainages(3); boreomontane forest, prairie and parkland poplar groves; larvae in leaf litter and rotting wood(1)
Season
Adults collected 19.v-28.viii(1)
Food
Larvae are predators in peat and moist, loamy soils(3)
Remarks
Relatively common, but usually encountered as single specimens(1)
Internet References
Works Cited
1.University of Alberta Entomology Collection
2.The Beetles of Northeastern North America, Vol. 1 and 2.
Downie, N.M., and R.H. Arnett. 1996. The Sandhill Crane Press, Gainesville, FL.
3.The Elateridae (Coleoptera) of the Maritime Provinces of Canada: faunal composition, new records, and taxonomic changes
C.G. Majka & P.J. Johnson. 2008. Zootaxa 1811: 1–33.