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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Elateriformia » Elateroidea » Click Beetles (Elateridae) » Dendrometrinae » Prosternini » Metanomus

Genus Metanomus

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Range · Works Cited
Elaterid 2 - Metanomus insidiosus click beetle - Metanomus insidiosus Metanomus insidiosus - Metanomus insidiosus Elaterid 2 - Metanomus insidiosus Metanomus insidiosus Metanomus insidiosus - female
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 Prosternini
Genus Metanomus
Explanation of Names
Metanomus Buysson 1887
Numbers
3 spp. in our area(1), one more (the type sp.) in n. Eurasia(2)
Range
Holarctic boreal; in our area, one sp. boreal transcontinental + 2 spp. montane in n. CA(1)(2)
Works Cited
1.Johnson P.J. (2009) Classification of the Nearctic genera of Elateridae
2.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.
Contributed by v belov on 27 March, 2011 - 12:39pm
Last updated 28 February, 2015 - 5:30pm

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