Melanotus fuscus

Melanotus fuscus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Elateriformia
Family:	Elateridae
Genus:	Melanotus
Species:	M. fuscus
Binomial name
	Melanotus fuscus; (Fabricius, 1801)
Synonyms
	Elater fuscusFabricius, 1801; Melanotus fuscusCandeze, 1860;

Last updated December 17, 2025

Melanotus fuscus, is a species of click beetle found in India, China, Indonesia, Laos, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Cambodia and Thailand.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]

References

↑ "On the elaterid fauna (Coleoptera) of Buxa Tiger Reserve (BTR), West Bengal, India" (PDF). Mun. Ent. Zool. Vol. 7, No. 2, June 2012. Retrieved 2021-08-05.
↑ "New and some rare Species of Elaterid? from the Japanese Empire". Hokkaido University Collection of Scholarly and Academic Papers : HUSCAP. Retrieved 2021-08-05.
↑ 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.
↑ "New elaterid fauna of Melanotus Eschscholtz (Coleoptera: Elateridae: Melanotinae) from India-Indian Journals". www.indianjournals.com. Retrieved 2021-08-06.

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[1] "On the elaterid fauna (Coleoptera) of Buxa Tiger Reserve (BTR), West Bengal, India" (PDF). Mun. Ent. Zool. Vol. 7, No. 2, June 2012. Retrieved 2021-08-05.

[2] "New and some rare Species of Elaterid? from the Japanese Empire". Hokkaido University Collection of Scholarly and Academic Papers : HUSCAP. Retrieved 2021-08-05.

[3] 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.

[4] "New elaterid fauna of Melanotus Eschscholtz (Coleoptera: Elateridae: Melanotinae) from India-Indian Journals". www.indianjournals.com. Retrieved 2021-08-06.

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