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Subfamily Oxynopterinae

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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 Oxynopterinae
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
formerly (see(1)) treated as a tribe (Oxynopterini) in Dendrometrinae (=Prosterninae)
Explanation of Names
Oxynopterinae Candèze 1857
Numbers
9 spp. in 4 genera in our area(2)
Works Cited
1.Johnson P.J. (2009) Classification of the Nearctic genera of Elateridae
2.Click Beetles (Coleoptera: Elateridae) of the Southeastern United States
Mathison B.A. 2021. Occasional Papers FSCA 13: 1-414.
Contributed by v belov on 1 March, 2015 - 9:08am
Additional contributions by bmathison1972
Last updated 14 December, 2021 - 3:29pm

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