Genus Chalcolepidius

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Range · Works Cited

blue click beetle - Chalcolepidius smaragdinus - male

Black-and-white Click Beetle - Chalcolepidius apacheanus

What is this? Some type of beetle? - Chalcolepidius webbi

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 Agrypninae

Tribe Hemirhipini

Genus Chalcolepidius

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

reviewed in(1)

Explanation of Names

Chalcolepidius Eschscholtz 1829

Numbers

11 spp. in our area(2)

Range

AZ to se. US(2)

Works Cited

1.	Review of the genus Chalcolepidius Eschscholtz, 1829 (Coleoptera, Elateridae, Agrypninae) Sonia Aparecida Casari. 2002. Revista Brasilera de Entomologia.

2.	Johnson P.J. (2009) Classification of the Nearctic genera of Elateridae

Contributed by Eric R. Eaton on 16 November, 2005 - 3:07pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, David Ferguson, v belov
Last updated 28 February, 2015 - 2:32pm

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