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Genus Vesperelater

Vesperelater arizonicus (Hyslop) - Vesperelater arizonicus - male

Deilelater physoderus - Vesperelater arizonicus

Elater with glow spots - Vesperelater arizonicus

Bioluminescent Click Beetle - Vesperelater arizonicus

Arizona Beetle - Vesperelater arizonicus

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Coleoptera (Beetles)

Suborder Polyphaga (Water, Rove, Scarab, Long-horned, Leaf and Snout Beetles)

No Taxon (Series Elateriformia)

Superfamily Elateroidea (Click, Firefly and Soldier Beetles)

Family Elateridae (Click Beetles)

Subfamily Agrypninae

Tribe Pyrophorini

Genus Vesperelater

Explanation of Names

Vesperelater Costa 1975

Numbers

a single species in our area(1)

Range

AZ(1)

Works Cited

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

Contributed by v belov on 19 November, 2010 - 12:01pm
Last updated 28 February, 2015 - 2:15pm

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