Species Ampedus fuscatus

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

Ampedus fuscatus (Melsheimer) - Ampedus fuscatus - male

Ampedus melanotoides - Ampedus fuscatus - male

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 Ampedini

Genus Ampedus

Species fuscatus (Ampedus fuscatus)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

used to be treated as a syn of A. nigricans Germar, e.g. in (1)

Explanation of Names

Ampedus fuscatus (Melsheimer 1846)

fuscatus 'dusky, brown'

Size

6.2-8.5 mm(2)

Range

e NA (MD-FL to ON-MN-TX)(3)(2)

Works Cited

1.	A Distributional Checklist of the Beetles (Coleoptera) of Florida

2.	A revision of the species of the genus Ampedus (Coleoptera, Elateridae) of America north of Mexico Ramberg F.B. 1979. Ph.D. thesis, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. xi+422 pp.

3.	Checklist of beetles (Coleoptera) of Canada and Alaska. Second edition Bousquet Y., Bouchard P., Davies A.E., Sikes D.S. 2013. ZooKeys 360: 1–402.

Contributed by Mike Quinn on 12 June, 2012 - 6:36pm
Additional contributions by v belov
Last updated 14 December, 2020 - 8:07pm

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