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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Elateriformia » Elateroidea » Click Beetles (Elateridae) » Elaterinae » Megapenthes

Genus Megapenthes

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Range · Remarks · Works Cited
Megapenthes turbulentus (LeConte) - Megapenthes turbulentus Megapenthes longicornis-complex - Megapenthes longicornis Megapenthes turbulentus? - Megapenthes turbulentus Megapenthes limbalis Megapenthes caprella?? - Megapenthes Megapenthes lepidus Megapenthes limbalis? - Megapenthes limbalis Pennsylvania Beetle for ID - Megapenthes rufilabris
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
Genus Megapenthes
Explanation of Names
Megapenthes Kiesenwetter 1858
name borrowed from Greek mythology (name meaning "great sorrow")
Numbers
29 spp. in our area(1)
Identification
key to spp. in (2)
Range
much of NA(1)
Remarks
member of the tribe Megapenthini Gurjeva 1973 that contains ~9 genera
Works Cited
1.Johnson P.J. (-2013) Elateridae of Canada and the Continental United States
2.Five new species of Megapenthes from the southwestern United States, with a key to the Nearctic species (Coleoptera: Elateridae)
Becker E.C. 1971. Can. Entomol. 103: 145-167.
Contributed by Boris Büche on 23 April, 2007 - 8:03am
Additional contributions by cotinis, Beatriz Moisset, Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 2 July, 2021 - 8:27pm

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