Subfamily Negastriinae

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Range · Works Cited

Tiny orang-brown & black-patterned Elateroid-like beetle - Paradonus

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 Negastriinae

Explanation of Names

Negastriinae Nakane & Kishii 1956

see (1)

Numbers

35 spp. in 8 genera in our area(2)

Identification

keys to eastern spp. in Stibnick (1990)(3)

Range

most of NA, more diverse in the north and in montane (esp. western) regions(2)

Works Cited

1.	A nomenclatural summary of North American Zorochros Thomson (Coleoptera: Elateridae), with two species transfers Johnson P.J., Wells S.A. 2021. Col. Bull. 75: 406-409.

2.	Johnson P.J. (-2013) Elateridae of Canada and the Continental United States

3.	North American Negastriinae (Coleoptera, Elateridae): The Negastriinae of the eastern United States and adjacent Canada Stibnick J.N.L. 1990. Insecta Mundi 4: 99-131.

Contributed by tom murray on 6 April, 2007 - 5:03pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, Vox Sciurorum, v belov
Last updated 26 August, 2022 - 9:05am

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