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Genus Megapenthes

03-TN Click Beetle - Megapenthes limbalis - male

Click beetle looks like firefly - Megapenthes limbalis

Unlike anything I have photographed ..... - Megapenthes

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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