Melanactes

Melanactes
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Elateriformia
Family:	Elateridae
Tribe:	Oxynopterini
Genus:	Melanactes LeConte, 1854

Melanactes is a genus of click beetles in the family Elateridae. There are about five described species in Melanactes. ^{[1] [2] [3]}

Species

These five species belong to the genus Melanactes:

• Melanactes consors LeConte, 1853 ^b
• Melanactes densus LeConte, 1853 ^b
• Melanactes morio (Fabricius, 1798) ^b
• Melanactes piceus (DeGeer, 1774) ^b
• Melanactes puncticollis (LeConte, 1852) ^b

Data sources: i = ITIS, ^[4] c = Catalogue of Life, ^[5] g = GBIF, ^[1] b = Bugguide.net ^[2]

References

1. "Melanactes". GBIF. Retrieved 2018-04-05.
2. "Melanactes Genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-04-05.
3. "Melanactes Overview". Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved 2018-04-05.
4. "ITIS, Integrated Taxonomic Information System" . Retrieved 2018-04-05.
5. "Catalogue of Life" . Retrieved 2018-04-05.

Further reading

• Arnett, R.H. Jr.; Thomas, M. C.; Skelley, P. E.; Frank, J. H., eds. (2002). American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press. ISBN   978-0849309540.
• Blatchley, W.S. (1910). An illustrated descriptive catalogue of the Coleoptera, beetles (exclusive of the Rhynchophora) known to occur in Indiana. Nature Pub.
• Bouchard, Patrice; Bousquet, Yves; Davies, Anthony E.; Alonso-Zarazaga, Miguel A.; et al. (2011). "Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta)". ZooKeys (88). Pensoft Publishers: 1–972. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.88.807 . ISSN   1313-2989. PMC   3088472 . PMID   21594053.
• LeConte, J.L. (1861). Classification of the Coleoptera of North America. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. Vol. 3. Smithsonian Institution. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.38459 . ISBN   0665100558.
• White, Richard E. (1998) [1983]. A Field Guide to the Beetles of North America (Peterson Field Guides) . Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN   0395910897.

External links

• Media related to Melanactes at Wikimedia Commons