| Melanotus cribriventris | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Family: | Elateridae |
| Genus: | Melanotus |
| Species: | M. cribriventris |
| Binomial name | |
| Melanotus cribriventris Blatchley, 1910 | |
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Melanotus cribriventris, is a species of click beetle found in India, Sri Lanka, China and USA. [1] [2] [3]
Body length is about 10 mm. Length of elytra is 7.5 mm. [4]
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.
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.
Eucnemidae, or false click beetles, are a family of elateroid 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.
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.
Selasia apicalis, is a species of false firefly beetle found in Sri Lanka.
Zorochros titanus, is a species of click beetle found in Sri Lanka.
Diplostethus is a genus of click beetles in the family Elateridae. There are about six described species in Diplostethus, found in the Nearctic and the Neotropical Regions.
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