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For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
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Megapenthes
Genus
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