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Elateridae or click beetles are a family of beetles. Other names include elaters, snapping beetles, spring beetles or skipjacks. This family was defined by William Elford Leach (1790–1836) in 1815. They are a cosmopolitan beetle family characterized by the unusual click mechanism they possess. There are a few other families of Elateroidea in which a few members have the same mechanism, but most elaterid subfamilies can click. A spine on the prosternum can be snapped into a corresponding notch on the mesosternum, producing a violent "click" that can bounce the beetle into the air. Clicking is mainly used to avoid predation, although it is also useful when the beetle is on its back and needs to right itself. There are about 9300 known species worldwide, and 965 valid species in North America.
The Elateroidea are a large superfamily of beetles. It contains the familiar click beetles, fireflies, and soldier beetles and their relatives. It consists of about 25,000 species.
Selasia is a genus of beetles belonging to the family Elateridae, having historically been placed in the family "Drilidae", which was recently subsumed by Elateridae.
Semiotus ligneus is a species of click beetle from Central and South America.
Drilini is a tribe of beetles known commonly as the false firefly beetles, in the family Elateridae.
Eucnemidae, or false click beetles, are a family of elateroid beetles including about 1700 species distributed worldwide.
Amychus granulatus, commonly known as the Cook Strait click beetle, is a large flightless click beetle in the family Elateridae.
Cardiophorus is a genus of click beetles.
The Pyrophorini are a New World taxonomic tribe within the Elateridae subfamily Agrypninae. Pyrophorini is a tribe of bioluminescent beetles, and includes such genera as Pyrophorus and Ignelater.
Semiotus furcatus is a species of beetle in the family Elateridae.
Semiotus superbus is a species of beetle belonging to the family Elateridae.
Sinopyrophorus is a genus of bioluminescent hard-bodied clicking beetles in the superfamily Elateroidea, and is the sole member of the recently recognized family Sinopyrophoridae. The genus currently contains a single species, Sinopyrophorus schimmeli, which was described in 2019 from the subtropical evergreen broadleaf forests of western Yunnan, China.
Oxynopterus mucronatus, sometimes known as the giant click beetle, is a species of click beetle from tropical Southeast Asia. Their larvae are specialized predators of termites.
Amychus manawatawhi, commonly known as the Three Kings click beetle, is a large flightless click beetle in the family Elateridae, found only on the Three Kings Islands of New Zealand.
Ampedus is a genus of click beetles in the family Elateridae. There are currently 461 recognized species of Ampedus beetles. It has a cosmopolitan distribution, but is found mostly in the Holarctic region, primarily in North America, Europe, and Asia. The oldest known fossil from this genus was found in Eocene Baltic amber, estimated to be from 38.0–33.9 million years ago.
Drasterius sulcatulus, is a species of click beetle found in India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, UAE and Oman.
Melanotus cribriventris, is a species of click beetle found in India, Sri Lanka, China and USA.
Melanotus fuscus, is a species of click beetle found in India, China, Indonesia, Laos, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Cambodia and Thailand.
Melanotus punctosus, is a species of click beetle found in India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, and Hawaii.
Mulsanteus hirtellus, is a species of click beetle found in India, Sri Lanka, Nepal and Bhutan.
References
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- ↑ "Click beetles of Taiwan collected by the expeditions of the Hungarian Natural History Museum in the years 1995 to 2003 (Coleoptera: Elateridae)" (PDF). ANNALES HISTORICO-NATURALES MUSEI NATIONALIS HUNGARICI Volume 99 Budapest, 2007 pp. 49–91. Retrieved 2021-08-05.
- ↑ "Contribution to the knowledge of Agrypninae (Coleoptera: Elateridae) with description of new species and new records from Pakistan" (PDF). Zootaxa 3223: 40–54 (2012). Retrieved 2021-08-05.
- ↑ "An ecological study of the fauna of the Khewra gorge and some other salt waters in the Salt Range, Punjab" (PDF). Zoological Survey of !ndia. Retrieved 2021-08-05.
- ↑ "New species and records of Elateridae from North Pakistan, mostly collected by Guido Sabatinelli in 2011-2012 (Coleoptera)". Arquivos Entomolóxicos, ISSN-e 1989-6581, Nº. 13, 2015, págs. 3-52. Retrieved 2021-08-05.
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