Species Alaus lusciosus - Texas Click Beetle

Alaus lusciosus (Hope) - Alaus lusciosus

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 Agrypninae

Tribe Hemirhipini

Genus Alaus

Species lusciosus (Texas Click Beetle)

Explanation of Names

Alaus lusciosus (Hope 1832)

lusciosus = 'dim-sighted'

Size

26-45 mm

Identification

White markings on elytra are more clumped and patchy than those of A. oculatus, which has smaller, more evenly dispersed white spots. A. zunianus has very similar coloration but probably does not overlap in range. (E.G. Riley, pers. comm. to JSR, 2008)

Range

AZ-TX-KS; Mexico(1)

s., c. and parts of e. Texas. (E.G. Riley, pers. comm. to JSR, 2008)

Works Cited

1.	Checklist of the Elateridae of Mexico. Johnson, P.J. 2010. 2010. South Dakota State University, Brookings.

Contributed by Joshua Stuart Rose on 12 May, 2008 - 12:49pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 25 November, 2016 - 5:23pm

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