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Genus Melanotus

Melanotus? - Melanotus similis Click1 - Melanotus similis Melanotus communis-complex Click Beetle - Melanotus castanipes Conoderus - Melanotus Melanotus? - Melanotus similis Clicker May 28 - Melanotus Melanotus - Melanotus castanipes
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 Elaterinae
Tribe Melanotini
Genus Melanotus
Explanation of Names
Melanotus Eschscholtz 1829
Numbers
>50 spp. in our area(1), almost 800 total
Size
5.2–18 mm(2)(3)
Identification
Key to NA spp. in(4)
claws pectinate:
Range
holarctic, Oriental, Afrotropical(5); across NA(6)
Remarks
our only representative of the subtribe Melanotina Candèze 1859 (1856)(1)
Works Cited
1.Johnson P.J. (2009) Classification of the Nearctic genera of Elateridae
2.Beetles of Eastern North America
Arthur V. Evans. 2014. Princeton University Press.
3.The Beetles of Northeastern North America, Vol. 1 and 2.
Downie, N.M., and R.H. Arnett. 1996. The Sandhill Crane Press, Gainesville, FL.
4.Revision of click beetles of genus Melanotus in America north of Mexico (Coleoptera: Elateridae).
Quate, L.W., and S.E. Thompson. 1967. Proceedings of the U.S. National Museum, 121(3568): 1-83.
5.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.
6.American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea
Arnett, R.H., Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.). 2002. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, FL.