Genus Glyphonyx

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Range · Remarks · Works Cited

2018-07-14 Small dark-faced click beetle - Glyphonyx

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

Tribe Synaptini

Genus Glyphonyx

Explanation of Names

Glyphonyx Candèze 1863

'carved claw'

Numbers

17 spp. in our area(1)

Identification

revision & key in(2)

Range

e. & s. NA(1)

Remarks

our only representative of the subtribe Synaptina Gistel 1856(1)

Works Cited

1.	Johnson P.J. (2009) Classification of the Nearctic genera of Elateridae

2.	A taxonomic revision of the Nearctic species of Glyphonyx (Coleoptera: Elateridae) with notes on G. quadraticollis Champion James W. Smith and Edward U. Balsbaugh, Jr. 1984. North Dakota Insects Schafer-Post Series, no. 16, 85 p.

Contributed by tom murray on 23 January, 2008 - 8:16pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov, bmathison1972
Last updated 28 February, 2015 - 1:31pm

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