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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Elateriformia » Elateroidea » Click Beetles (Elateridae) » Elaterinae » Agriotini » Agriotina » Agriotes » Lined click beetle (Agriotes lineatus)

Species Agriotes lineatus - Lined click beetle

Classification · Explanation of Names · Range · Remarks · Internet References · Works Cited
Elateridae - Agriotes lineatus (Linnaeus) - Agriotes lineatus Elateridae? - Agriotes lineatus Elaterid 12 - Agriotes lineatus Brown Beetle - Agriotes lineatus Agriotes lineatus ? - Agriotes lineatus Unknown Click Beetle - Agriotes lineatus Agriotes - Agriotes lineatus Lined Click Beetle - Agriotes lineatus
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 Agriotini
Subtribe Agriotina
Genus Agriotes
Species lineatus (Lined click beetle)
Explanation of Names
Author: Linnaeus
Range
native to, and widespread across the Palaearctic(1), adventive in NA (se. Canada & MA + BC-OR)(2) (first found in 1840 in NF)(3)
Remarks
important crop pest in Europe and a probable pest in w. Canada(2)
Internet References
Fact sheet
Works Cited
1.Keys to the insects of the Far East of the USSR, Vol. 3. Coleoptera I
Lehr P.A., ed. 1989. Leningrad, Nauka Publishing House, 572 pp.
2.New records of European wireworm pests and other click beetles (Coleoptera: Elateridae) in Canada and USA
Douglas H. 2011. J. ent. Soc. Ont. 142: 11–17.
3.The Elateridae (Coleoptera) of the Maritime Provinces of Canada: faunal composition, new records, and taxonomic changes
C.G. Majka & P.J. Johnson. 2008. Zootaxa 1811: 1–33.
Contributed by Jim McClarin on 25 May, 2006 - 7:13pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, v belov
Last updated 6 January, 2012 - 2:29pm

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