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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Elateriformia » Elateroidea » Click Beetles (Elateridae) » Elaterinae » Physorhinini » Anchastus

Genus Anchastus

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Range · Works Cited
Elateridae at blacklight - Anchastus bicolor Anchastus binus (Say) - Anchastus binus Anchastus bicolor? - Anchastus bicolor Small elaterid? - Anchastus cinereipennis Anchastus signaticollis? - Anchastus signaticollis Small brown elaterid - Anchastus cinereipennis Anchastus cinereipennis Anchastus digitatus
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 Physorhinini
Genus Anchastus
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Elatrinus Horn 1871
Explanation of Names
Anchastus LeConte 1853
Numbers
17 spp. in our area(1), ~200 total
Identification
Key to spp. in (2)
Range
e. & so. US to OR-CA(1)
Works Cited
1.Johnson P.J. (2009) Classification of the Nearctic genera of Elateridae
2.Miscellaneous studies in the Elateridae and related families of Coleoptera
E. C. Van Dyke. 1932. Proc. California Academy of Sciences; 20(9): 291-465.
Contributed by Ted Kropiewnicki on 29 December, 2008 - 11:24pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 9 May, 2020 - 9:22pm

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