Lanelater

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Lanelater
Elateridae - Lanelater mastersii.JPG
Lanelater mastersii. Mounted specimen
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Subphylum:
Hexapoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Coleoptera
Family:
Elateridae
Genus:
Lanelater

Arnett, 1952

Lanelater is a genus of click beetle belonging to the family Elateridae.

Click beetle Family of beetles

Insects in the family Elateridae are commonly called click 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 all elaterids 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.

List of species

<i>Lanelater fuscipes</i> Species of beetle

Lanelater fuscipes is a species of click beetle belonging to the family Elateridae subfamily Agrypninae.

<i>Lanelater mastersii</i> Species of beetle

Lanelater mastersii is a species of click beetle belonging to the family Elateridae.

<i>Lanelater substriatus</i> Species of beetle

Lanelater substriatus is a species of click beetle belonging to the family Elateridae.

Related Research Articles

<i>Agrypnus</i> Genus of beetles

Agrypnus is a genus of click beetle.

<i>Melanoxanthus</i> genus of insects

Melanoxanthus is a genus of click beetles.

Denticollinae subfamily of insects

Denticollinae is a subfamily of beetle in the click beetle family. They occur in most regions of the world but are more abundant in cool temperate areas.

<i>Trox</i> Genus of beetles

Trox is a genus of beetles of the Family Trogidae.

<i>Chalcolepidius</i> Genus of beetles

Chalcolepidius is a genus of beetles in the family Elateridae.

<i>Eburia</i> Genus of beetles

Eburia is a genus of beetle in the family Cerambycidae.

<i>Semiotus</i> genus of insects

Semiotus is a genus of beetle belonging to the family Elateridae. It includes about 85 large sized and colourful click beetles with bright integument. The colouration is usually yellow with longitudinal black, orange or reddish stripes. The Neotropical genus occurs from Mexico to Bolivia.

<i>Actenicerus</i> Genus of beetles

Actenicerus is a genus of click beetle belonging to the family Elateridae, subfamily Dendrometrinae.

<i>Athous</i> Genus of beetles

Athous is a genus of click beetles belonging to the family Elateridae

<i>Dicronychus</i> genus of insects

Dicronychus is a genus of click beetle belonging to the family Elateridae.

<i>Epicauta</i> genus of insects

Epicauta is a genus of beetles in the blister beetle family, Meloidae. The genus was first scientifically described in 1834 by Pierre François Marie Auguste Dejean. Epicauta is distributed nearly worldwide, with species native to all continents except Australia. Surveys have found the genus to be particularly diverse in northern Arizona in the United States. Few species occur in the Arctic, with none farther north than the southern Northwest Territory of Canada.

<i>Hemicrepidius</i> Genus of beetles

Hemicrepidius is a genus of click beetle belonging to the family Elateridae.

<i>Tetralobus</i> genus of insects

Tetralobus is a genus of click beetle belonging to the family Elateridae.

<i>Calais</i> (beetle) Genus of beetles

Calais is a genus of click beetle belonging to the family Elateridae and the subfamily Agrypninae.

<i>Lacon</i> (beetle) Genus of beetles

Lacon is a genus of click beetle belonging to the family Elateridae and the subfamily Agrypninae.

Cardiorhinus is a genus of click betles in the subfamily Denticollinae.

<i>Ctenicera</i> Genus of beetles

Ctenicera is a genus of click beetles.

Agrypninae Subfamily of beetles

Agrypninae is a subfamily of click beetles in the family Elateridae. There are at least 130 genera and more than 430 described species in Agrypninae.

<i>Megapenthes</i> (beetle) genus of insects

Megapenthes is a genus of click beetles in the family Elateridae. There are at least 30 described species in Megapenthes.

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