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

Subfamily Elaterinae

Classification · Numbers · Identification · Range · Works Cited
Glyphonyx 08 - Glyphonyx inquinatus Click Beetle - Dolerosomus silaceus Elateridae - Ampedus rubriventris Click Beetle - Ampedus beetle - Melanotus click beetle - Ampedus sanguinipennis Diplostethus carolinensis? - Diplostethus carolinensis Melanotus - Melanotus castanipes
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
Numbers
~330 spp. in 20 genera arranged into 4 tribes in our area(1)(2)
Identification
Body not broadly ovate and strongly flattened; relatively straight or only slightly curved ventrally; circular in cross-section; body, as viewed from above elongate and more or less parallel-sided. Vestiture consisting of fine hairs or setae only. Dorsal surfaces more or less heavily pigmented or sclerotized; generally smooth, or generally granulate or tuberculate. Ventral surfaces more or less heavily pigmented.
Range
worldwide and throughout NA
Works Cited
1.Johnson P.J. (2009) Classification of the Nearctic genera of Elateridae
2.Monograph of the subtribe Elaterina (Insecta: Coleoptera: Elateridae: Elaterinae).
Schimmel R. and D. Tarnawski. 2010. Genus 21(3): 325–487.
Contributed by Phillip Harpootlian on 12 September, 2005 - 9:03am
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 22 August, 2014 - 8:19am

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