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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.
The Rhagophthalmidae are a family of beetles within the superfamily Elateroidea. Members of this beetle family have bioluminescent organs on the larvae, and sometimes adults, and are closely related to the Phengodidae, though historically they have been often treated as a subfamily of Lampyridae, or as related to that family. Some recent evidence suggested that they were the sister group to the Phengodidae, and somewhat distantly related to Lampyridae, whose sister taxon was Cantharidae, but more reliable genome-based phylogenetics placed as the sister group to the Lampyridae.
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.
Drilini is a tribe of beetles known commonly as the false firefly beetles, in the family Elateridae.
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.
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.
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.
Coptomma marrisi is a species of longhorn beetle only known from Great Island in the Three Kings Islands, New Zealand.
Conoderus collaris or Prodrasterius collaris, is a species of click beetle found in Indian subregion from Pakistan, Assam to Sri Lanka.
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.
Selasia apicalis, is a species of false firefly beetle found in Sri Lanka.
Selasia isabellae, is a species of false firefly beetle found in Sri Lanka.
Dipropus simplex is a species of click beetle in the family Elateridae, found in the southern United States and Mexico.
References
- ↑ "DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW SPECIES OF CLICK-BEETLES FROM THE PALEARCTIC REGION AND TAIWAN WITH CHOROLOGICAL AND SYNONYMICAL NOTES" (PDF). Quad. Studi Nat. Romagna, 27: 187 - 215 dicembre 2008. Retrieved 2021-08-05.
- ↑ "On some Palaearctic click beetles deposited in the Hungarian Natural History Museum, 2 (Coleoptera: Elateridae)". Zootaxa, 2014. Retrieved 2021-08-05.
- ↑ "Drasterius sulcatulus Candeze, 1859". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 2021-08-06.
- ↑ "ELATERIDAE Drasterius sulcatulus". www.elateridae.com. Retrieved 2021-08-06.
- ↑ "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.
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