Elaterinae

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Elaterinae
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Megapenthes caprella
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Elateridae
Subfamily: Elaterinae
Leach, 1815
Tribes

Elaterinae is a subfamily of click beetles in the family Elateridae, containing 12 tribes worldwide. [1]

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Ampedus nigricollis
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Melanotus leonardi
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Agriotes fucosus

Selected genera

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Artematopodidae Family of beetles

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Throscidae Family of beetles

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Dendrometrinae Subfamily of beetles

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Negastriinae Subfamily of beetles

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References

  1. Robin Kundrata, Nicole L. Gunter, Dominika Janosikova & Ladislav Bocak (2018) Molecular evidence for the subfamilial status of Tetralobinae (Coleoptera: Elateridae), with comments on parallel evolution of some phenotypic characters. Arthropod Systematics & Phylogeny 76: 137-145.

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