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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.
Pyrophorus is a genus of click beetle. They are one of several genera in the tribe Pyrophorini, all of which are bioluminescent. Their bioluminescence is similar to that of another group of beetles, the fireflies, although click beetles do not flash, but remain constantly glowing. They have two luminescent spots at the posterior corners of the pronotum, and another brighter light organ on the most-anterior surface of the ventral abdomen. This light organ is even brighter and can only be seen when in flight. Bioluminescent click beetles are found throughout tropical, subtropical and temperate America. Species from Texas, Florida, Puerto Rico, and Cuba are now in different genera in the tribe Pyrophorini, such as Deilelater and Ignelater.
Semiotus ligneus is a species of click beetle from Central and South America.
Chalcolepidius limbatus is a species of beetles in the family Elateridae.
Chalcolepidius porcatus is a species of beetles in the family Elateridae.
Pyrophorus noctilucus, common name headlight elater, is a species of click beetle.
Eucnemidae, or false click beetles, are a family of elateroid beetles including about 1700 species distributed worldwide.
Cardiophorus is a genus of click beetles.
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.
Semiotus furcatus is a species of beetle in the family Elateridae.
Semiotus superbus is a species of beetle belonging to the family Elateridae.
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.
Melanotus cribriventris, is a species of click beetle found in India, Sri Lanka, China and USA.
Melanotus fuscus, is a species of click beetle found in India, China, Indonesia, Laos, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Cambodia and Thailand.
Selasia apicalis, is a species of false firefly beetle found in Sri Lanka.
Dipropus is a genus of click beetles in the family Elateridae. There are around 150 described species in Dipropus, found in North, Central, and South America.
References
- ↑ "Additions and notes to the Elateridae (Coleoptera) of the Hawaiian Islands1" (PDF). Science Letters - researchgate.net. Retrieved 2021-08-05.
- ↑ "A New Species of Melanotus (Eschscholtz, 1829) With Notes on Other Species of the Genus From Pakistan (Coleoptera: Elateridae)" (PDF). Pakistan J. Zool., vol. 43(3), pp. 581-585, 2011. Retrieved 2021-08-05.
- ↑ "Biodiversity of click beetles (Elateridae) of Tandojam" (PDF). Journal of Entomology and Zoology Studies 2018; 6(2): 2808-2814. Retrieved 2021-08-05.
- ↑ "Two new species of the genus Melanotus Eschscholtz (Coleoptera: Elateridae; Melanotinae) from Pakistan" (PDF). Zootaxa 3101: 47–52 (2011). Retrieved 2021-08-05.
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