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Genus Prosternon

Silver Star Mountain Click Beetle 4 - Prosternon

Mt Emily Elaterid - Prosternon viduum - male

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 Dendrometrinae

Tribe Prosternini

Genus Prosternon

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

includes former members of 'Ctenicera fallax group'(1)

Explanation of Names

Prosternon Latreille 1834

Numbers

6 spp. in NA(1)

Range

holarctic; in NA, boreal and montane forests(1)

Works Cited

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

Contributed by tom murray on 1 December, 2006 - 7:52am
Additional contributions by v belov
Last updated 28 February, 2015 - 5:35pm

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