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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Water, Rove, Scarab, Long-horned, Leaf and Snout Beetles (Polyphaga) » Series Elateriformia » Click, Firefly and Soldier Beetles (Elateroidea) » Click Beetles (Elateridae) » Elaterinae » Melanotini » Melanotus

Genus Melanotus

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Remarks · Works Cited

Melanotus communis - Melanotus communis-complex

Melanotus - Melanotus cribriventris - male

Elateridae - Hemicrepidius hemipodus - click beetle? - Melanotus

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.

Contributed by tom murray on 22 November, 2006 - 6:55pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, anitagould, Mike Quinn, Vox Sciurorum, Robert Lord Zimlich, v belov
Last updated 20 February, 2020 - 11:38am

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