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Elateridae or click beetles are 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.
Melanotus is a genus of click beetles in the family Elateridae. There are at least 30 described species in Melanotus.
Semiotus ligneus is a species of click beetle from Central and South America.
Melanotus punctolineatus, commonly known as the sandwich click beetle, is a species of beetle from the family Elateridae and the genus Melanotus.
Eucnemidae, or false click beetles, are a family of polyphagan beetles including about 1700 species distributed worldwide.
Elaterinae is a subfamily of click beetles in the family Elateridae, containing 12 tribes worldwide.
Melanotus castanipes is a species of click beetle in the family Elateridae.
Ampedini is a tribe of click beetles in the family Elateridae. There are about 7 genera and at least 80 described species in Ampedini.
Melanotus longulus is a species of click beetle in the family Elateridae.
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.
Semiotus furcatus is a species of beetle in the family Elateridae.
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.
Ctenicera virens is a species of click beetles.
Conoderus collaris or Prodrasterius collaris, is a species of click beetle found in Indian subregion from Pakistan, Assam to Sri Lanka.
Drasterius sulcatulus, is a species of click beetle found in India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, UAE and Oman.
Elius dilatatus, is a species of click beetle found in India, Sri Lanka, Malaysia and Singapore.
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.
References
- ↑ Sarkar, Sutirtha; Saha, Sumana; Raychaudhuri, Dinendra (2017). "Faunistic Record of Click Beetles (Elateridae: Coleoptera) from Tea Gardens of Darjeeling, West Bengal, India". World Scientific News. pp. 57–69. Retrieved 2021-08-06.
- ↑ Smith, James W.; Enns, Wilbur R. (1978). "The Click Beetle Subfamilies Agrypninae, Pyrophorinae, and Melanotinae (Coleoptera: Elateridae) in Missouri: Part II". Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society. pp. 42–74. Retrieved 2021-08-06.
- ↑ "Revision of Click Beetles of Genus Melanotus in America North of Mexico (Coleoptera: Elateridae)" (PDF). repository.si.edu. Retrieved 2021-08-05.
- ↑ "Melanotus - Melanotus cribriventris". bugguide.net. Retrieved 2021-08-06.
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