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Subfamily Oestodinae

Unsure what I've got - Oestodes tenuicollis

Click beetle - Oestodes tenuicollis - female

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 Oestodinae

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

once treated as part of Lissominae

Explanation of Names

Oestodinae Hyslop 1917

Numbers

3 spp. in 2 genera, all in our area(1)(2)

Range

e. NA

Works Cited

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

2.	Next step toward a molecular phylogeny of click-beetles (Coleoptera: Elateridae): redefinition of Pityobiinae... Kundrata R., Gunter N.L., Douglas H., Bocak L. 2015. Austral Entomology 55: 291–302.

Contributed by v belov on 8 March, 2017 - 3:31pm

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