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Genus Idolus

Small Black and Orange Beetle - Idolus bigeminatus

Idolus columbiana - Idolus columbianus - male

Another patterned orange elaterid - Idolus columbianus

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 Pomachiliini

Genus Idolus

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Agriotella Brown 1933

Explanation of Names

Idolus Desbrochers des Loges 1875

Numbers

5 spp. in our area(1)

Range

n. & w. NA(1)

Works Cited

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

Contributed by tom murray on 10 December, 2008 - 3:56pm
Additional contributions by Robert Lord Zimlich, v belov, bmathison1972
Last updated 28 February, 2015 - 1:27pm

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