Species Athous haemorrhoidalis - Red-brown Skipjack

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

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 Dendrometrini

Subtribe Dendrometrina

Genus Athous

Species haemorrhoidalis (Red-brown Skipjack)

Explanation of Names

Athous (Athous) haemorrhoidalis (Fabricius 1801)

Size

10–15 mm(1)

Identification

coloration vary from all-brown to all-black

Range

native to, and widespread across w. Palaearctic (east to W. Siberia)(2), adventive in NA (ON, MA)(1)

Remarks

earliest record in our area: ON 2003(1)

Works Cited

1.	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.

2.	Coleoptera Poloniae

Contributed by v belov on 12 February, 2014 - 5:40pm

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