Species Nitidolimonius resplendens - Green Click Beetle

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Size · Range · Habitat · Season · Food · Remarks · Internet References · Works Cited

Iridescent Green Beetle - looks like a Click Beetle? - Nitidolimonius resplendens

Resplendent Click beetle, 4:35pm - Nitidolimonius resplendens

Metallic Click Beetle? - Nitidolimonius resplendens

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Coleoptera (Beetles)

Suborder Polyphaga (Water, Rove, Scarab, Longhorn, Leaf and Snout Beetles)

Superfamily Elateroidea (Click, Firefly and Soldier Beetles)

Family Elateridae (Click Beetles)

Subfamily Prosterninae

Tribe Prosternini

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

Species page(1)

Works Cited

1.	University of Alberta Entomology Collection

2.	The Beetles of Northeastern North America, Vol. 1 and 2. By Downie, N.M., and R.H. Arnett

3.	The Elateridae (Coleoptera) of the Maritime Provinces of Canada: faunal composition, new records, and taxonomic changes By C.G. Majka & P.J. Johnson

Contributed by Jim McClarin on 9 February, 2008 - 10:11pm
Additional contributions by v belov
Last updated 29 March, 2012 - 8:58pm

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