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Hemicrepidius niger
Species
Hemicrepidius niger
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
Dendrometrini
Subtribe
Hemicrepidiina
Genus
Hemicrepidius
Species
niger
(Hemicrepidius niger)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Athous niger
Explanation of Names
Hemicrepidius niger
(Linnaeus 1758)
Size
10–13 mm
(
1
)
Identification
coloration vary from brown to black
Range
native to, and widespread across w. Palaearctic (east into Siberia)
(
2
)
, adventive in NA (NB, ON)
(
1
)
Remarks
earliest record in our area: ON 2008
(
1
)
Works Cited
1.
New records of European wireworm pests and other click beetles (Coleoptera: Elateridae) in Canada and USA
Douglas H. 2011. J. ent. Soc. Ont. 142: 11–17.
2.
Coleoptera Poloniae
Contributed by
v belov
on 12 February, 2014 - 5:47pm