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For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada
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Drapetes
Genus
Drapetes
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
Lissominae
Genus
Drapetes
Explanation of Names
Drapetes
Dejean 1821
Numbers
8 spp. in our area, >120 total
(
1
)
Range
circumtropical to warm temperate, >80% of spp. in the New World; in our area, e. Canada to FL-AZ
(
1
)
Remarks
our only representative of the tribe Lissomini Laporte 1835
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2
)
Works Cited
1.
A new species of Drapetes Megerle (Coleoptera: Elateridae), with taxonomic summaries and a key to the species of northern N.A.
Johnson, P. J. 2015. Insecta Mundi; 445: 1-13.
2.
Johnson P.J. (2009) Classification of the Nearctic genera of Elateridae
Contributed by
Boris Büche
on 19 June, 2008 - 11:46am
Additional contributions by
v belov
,
bmathison1972
Last updated 29 April, 2017 - 5:34pm