| Ctenicera virens | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Family: | Elateridae |
| Genus: | Ctenicera |
| Species: | C. virens |
| Binomial name | |
| Ctenicera virens (Schrank, 1781) | |
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Ctenicera virens is a species of click beetles.
This species is present in Central Europe, in the Alps, Carpathian Mountains, Balkan Peninsula, Crimea, and in the Nearctic realm. It occurs in Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Estonia, France, Germany, Hungary, Northern Italy, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Switzerland, and Ukraine. [1] [2]
This species normally inhabits mountainous and submontane areas, valleys of rivers and streams and moist mid-forest clearings. These beetles can be found on grasses and flowers of grasslands and glades. [3]
Ctenicera virens can reach a body length of about 15–21 mm (0.59–0.83 in). [4] These large and colorful click beetles have yellowish or reddish-brown elytra. They can be monochrome or with a green-bronzed marking just before the extremity. The head and the pronotum are brilliant metallic green. Pronotum is rather dotted on the sides. The males have strongly combed antennas, while the females show saw-toothed antennas from the third article onwards. [1]
The life cycle of this species develops in several years. Adults appear after wintering and can be found from mid-May until July. Females lay eggs in the soil in May–June. The larvae develop in superficial moist humus. They are mainly predatory, but they also feed on the underground parts of herbaceous plants. Pupation occurs in July–August. [3]
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.
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Anisodactylus binotatus is a species of ground beetle native to Europe. It was discovered as being introduced to Canterbury, New Zealand in 1938. Anisodactylus binotatus is a species of Carabidae, also known as the ground beetle family. Although this species of beetle has no official recorded common names, literature from England refers to it as the common shortspur beetle.
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