Identification, Images, & Information
For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada

Species Diplostethus carolinensis

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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 Elaterini
Genus Diplostethus
Species carolinensis (Diplostethus carolinensis)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Neotrichophorus carolinensis
Explanation of Names
Diplostethus carolinensis (Schaeffer 1916)
Range
se US (VA-FL to OK-TX)(1)(2)
Works Cited
1.A Distributional Checklist of the Beetles (Coleoptera) of Florida
2.Insects of Western North America: Survey of Selected Arthropod Taxa of Fort Sill, Comanche County, Oklahoma.
Kondratieff, B.C. et al. 2004. C.P. Gillette Museum of Arthropod Diversity, Colorado State University, Fort Collins.