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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Water, Rove, Scarab, Longhorn, Leaf and Snout Beetles (Polyphaga) » Click, Firefly and Soldier Beetles (Elateroidea) » Click Beetles (Elateridae) » Athoinae

Subfamily Athoinae

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click beetle - Limonius just another click beetle Which beetle, please? - Limonius Click beetle - Limonius Click Beetle Click Beetle - Limonius aurifer Long-necked Elater - Athous Can this go past click beetle?
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga (Water, Rove, Scarab, Longhorn, Leaf and Snout Beetles)
Superfamily Elateroidea (Click, Firefly and Soldier Beetles)
Family Elateridae (Click Beetles)
Subfamily Athoinae
Contributed by Jim McClarin on 27 December, 2006 - 5:35am

Cardiophorinae
This beetle belongs to the genus Aptopus of subfamily Cardiophorinae.
For confirmation of this (on the original specimen) check whether the tarsal claws are comb like and the pronotum has the lateral ridge incomplete or absent. If it fits those 2 criteria, then it is definitely Aptopus.
… Hume Douglas, 4 January, 2007 - 4:24pm

 
Well, we've been commenting on an Info page
that now no longer has the images to which we have referred. Let's both try to make specimen comments on the image pages instead.
… Jim McClarin, 6 January, 2007 - 6:43pm

 
Hi Hume.
I'm always curious about who is offering me an ID. Finding nothing on your personal page and googling up 866 hits on "Hume Douglas" I then tried "Hume Douglas" Entomology. This led me to your studies at Carleton University (are you still there?) in revising the Cardiophorinae. I'm glad to know that I have received an informed opinion, although a bit vexed that I had to go googling to find out. You're not alone. One world authority after another has registered on bugguide with zip for personal information, dropping taxonomic names in their wake. Why can't people ID themselves?!%&*

Well, I've had my little tantrum.

I don't keep a traditional insect collection. This specimen resides in the more active of two arthropod collections at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces. Once the BISON site of New Mexico species is back online I will check it for Aptopus. In the meantime I will place these images in Cardiophorinae.
… Jim McClarin, 6 January, 2007 - 6:28pm

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