Genus Drapetes

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

Four-spot Click Beetle - Drapetes quadripustulatus

black beetle with four orange spots - Drapetes quadripustulatus

Drapetes niger Bonvouloir - Drapetes niger

Drapetes exstriatus? - Drapetes exstriatus

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 Lissominae

Genus Drapetes

Explanation of Names

Drapetes Dejean 1821

Numbers

8 spp. in our area, >120 total(1)

Range

circumtropical to warm temperate, >80% of spp. in the New World; in our area, e. Canada to FL-AZ(1)

Remarks

our only representative of the tribe Lissomini Laporte 1835(2)

Works Cited

1.	A new species of Drapetes Megerle (Coleoptera: Elateridae), with taxonomic summaries and a key to the species of northern N.A. Johnson, P. J. 2015. Insecta Mundi; 445: 1-13.

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

Contributed by Boris Büche on 19 June, 2008 - 11:46am
Additional contributions by v belov, bmathison1972
Last updated 29 April, 2017 - 5:34pm

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