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Genus Athoplastus


Athoplastus Johnson and Etzler (Coleoptera: Elateridae: Dendrometrinae), a new genus of click beetle...
By F. E. Etzler and P. J. Johnson
Coleopterists Bulletin. 72: 503-521, 2018

American species of Ludius; the propola group (Coleoptera)
By Brown W.J.
Can. Entomol. 68: 177-187, 1936

A world catalogue of Ctenicerini Fleutiaux, 1936. Part II (Coleoptera: Elateridae: Athoinae)
By D. Tarnawski
Genus 12(3): 277-323, 2001

The click beetle subfamilies Agrypninae, Pyrophorinae, and Melanotinae (Coleoptera: Elateridae) in Missouri - Part I
By J. W. Smith and W. R. Enns
Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society, Vol. 50, No. 3, pp. 436-468, 1977
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The click beetle subfamilies Agrypninae, Pyrophorinae, and Melanotinae (Coleoptera: Elateridae) in Missouri - Part II
By J. W. Smith and W. R. Enns
Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society, Vol. 51, No. 1, pp. 42-74, 1978
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J. W. Smith publishes a correction to Part II in Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society, Vol. 51, No. 2, p. 327, 1978

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On certain North American Elateridae, new and old.
By Fall, H.C.
Journal of the New York Entomological Society 42: 7–36., 1934
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Fall, H.C. 1934. On certain North American Elateridae, new and old. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 42: 7–36. (Full Text)

Click Beetles (Coleoptera: Elateridae) of the Southeastern United States
By Mathison B.A.
Occasional Papers FSCA 13: 1-414, 2021

Miscellaneous studies in the Elateridae and related families of Coleoptera
By E. C. Van Dyke
Proc. California Academy of Sciences; 20(9): 291-465, 1932