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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) » Soft-bodied Plant Beetles (Artematopodidae)

Family Artematopodidae - Soft-bodied Plant Beetles

Classification · Other Common Names · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Habitat · Internet References · Works Cited
Silver Star Mountain Beetle 10 - Macropogon piceus soft-bodied plant beetle - Macropogon testaceipennis Dark beetle with red Another dark beetle - Macropogon piceus Chinese Camp '72 - Brevipogon confusus Downeast Beetle - Eurypogon niger Downeast Beetle - Eurypogon niger Macropogon testaceipennis
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 Artematopodidae (Soft-bodied Plant Beetles)
Other Common Names
Artematopodid Beetles
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Artematopidae
Explanation of Names
Artematopodidae Lacordaire 1857
Numbers
8-9 spp. in 4 genera in our area (all in the Artematopodinae)(1)(2), 45 spp. in 8 genera of 3 subfamilies total(3)
Size
3-10 mm(1)
Identification
Somewhat resemble Click Beetles covered with setae of moderate length and reduced prosternal keel. Head well recessed into pronotum and slightly to strongly downturned. Apex of each elytron with ventral tongue-like process (https://bugguide.net/node/view/1519722). Antennae 11-segmented, maxillary palpi 4-segmented, tarsi 5-5-5. Larvae elateriform.
Range
most of the New World (n. NA to Brazil) + E. Asia & so. Europe(4)
Habitat
Larvae of several spp. found in moss mats; adults on vegetation(1)
Internet References
Family overview(4)
Works Cited
1.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.
2.Brevipogon, a new genus of North American Artematopodidae (Coleoptera), with a key to world genera
Lawrence J.F. 2005. Col. Bull. 59: 223-236.
3.Order Coleoptera Linnaeus, 1758. In: Zhang Z.-Q. (ed.) Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification...
Ślipiński S.A., Leschen R.A.B., Lawrence J.F. 2011. Zootaxa 3148: 203–208.
4.Lawrence J.F., et al. (2000-2005) Elateriformia (Coleoptera): descriptions, illustrations, identification...
Contributed by Jim McClarin on 28 December, 2006 - 7:54pm
Additional contributions by Phillip Harpootlian, v belov, Brady Richards
Last updated 8 March, 2019 - 12:17pm

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