Identification, Images, & Information
For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada
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Anchastus
Genus
Anchastus
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
Elaterinae
Tribe
Physorhinini
Genus
Anchastus
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Elatrinus
Horn 1871
Explanation of Names
Anchastus
LeConte 1853
Numbers
17 spp. in our area
(
1
)
, ~200 total
Identification
Key to spp. in
(
2
)
Range
e. & so. US to OR-CA
(
1
)
Works Cited
1.
Johnson P.J. (2009) Classification of the Nearctic genera of Elateridae
2.
Miscellaneous studies in the Elateridae and related families of Coleoptera
E. C. Van Dyke. 1932. Proc. California Academy of Sciences; 20(9): 291-465.
Contributed by
Ted Kropiewnicki
on 29 December, 2008 - 11:24pm
Additional contributions by
Mike Quinn
,
v belov
Last updated 9 May, 2020 - 9:22pm