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Elateroidea Genera
The Elateroidea are a large Taxonomic rank, superfamily of beetles. It contains the familiar click beetles, firefly, fireflies, and soldier beetles and their relatives. It consists of about 25,000 species. Description Elateroidea is a morphologically diverse group, including hard-bodied beetles with 5 abdominal ventrites, soft-bodied beetles with 7-8 ventrites connected with membranes (formerly known as Cantharoid beetles, cantharoids), and beetles with intermediate forms. They have a range of sizes and colours, but in terms of shape, they are usually narrow and parallel-sided as adults. Many of the sclerotised elateroids (Cerophytidae, Eucnemidae, Throscidae, Elateridae) have a clicking mechanism. This is a peg on the prothorax which fits into a cavity in the mesothorax. When a click beetle bends its body, the peg snaps into the cavity, causing the beetle's body to straighten so suddenly that it jumps into the air. Most beetles capable of bioluminescence are in the Elateroi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Denticollis Linearis
''Denticollis linearis'' is a species of click beetle belonging to the family Elateridae subfamily Dendrometrinae. This beetle is present in most of Europe, in the East Palearctic realm, the Nearctic realm, and the Near East. ''Denticollis linearis'' is quite similar to a Cantharidae species, but it can be distinguished from a soldier beetle by the two basal angles very protruding on pronotum and the deep longitudinal rows of pits. The pronotum varies from orange-red to brownish, the elytra from dark-brown to yellowish, while the head and femora are generally blackish, the tarsi and tibia are orange-yellow. The larvae are omnivorous, feeding on many different plants and other species larvae. The adults grow up to long and can mostly be encountered from May through July in broadleaved and coniferous host-trees. References * Mendel, H. & Clarke, R. E., 1996, Provisional Atlas of the click beetles of (Coleoptera: Elateroidea) of Britain and Ireland, Ipswich Borough Council Mus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rhagophthalmidae
The Rhagophthalmidae are a family of beetles within the superfamily Elateroidea. Members of this beetle family have bioluminescent organs on the larvae, and sometimes adults, and are closely related to the Phengodidae ( American glowworm beetles), though historically they have been often treated as a subfamily of Lampyridae, or as related to that family. Some recent evidence suggested that they were the sister group to the Phengodidae, and somewhat distantly related to Lampyridae, whose sister taxon was Cantharidae, but more reliable genome-based phylogenetics placed (Rhagophthalmidae + Phengodidae) as the sister group to the Lampyridae. Whatever their relationships may be, Rhagophthalmidae are distributed in the Old World, and little is known of their biology. Females are usually wingless and look like larvae, but have an adult beetle's eyes, antennae and legs; in the genus '' Diplocladon'', they resemble larvae even more, with small light organs on all trunk segments. Larvae an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iberobaeniidae
''Iberobaenia'' is a genus of elateroid beetle. It is the only member of the family Iberobaeniidae. It was first described in 2016, from two species found in Southern Spain. A third species was described in 2017, from the same region. Like some other members of the Elateroidea, the females are neotenic Neoteny (), also called juvenilization,Montagu, A. (1989). Growing Young. Bergin & Garvey: CT. is the delaying or slowing of the physiological, or somatic, development of an organism, typically an animal. Neoteny in modern humans is more signif .... Species *'' Iberobaenia andujari'' Kundrata et al, 2017 *'' Iberobaenia minuta'' Bocak et al., 2016 *'' Iberobaenia lencinai'' Bocak et al., 2016 References {{taxonbar, from=Q104860776 Elateroidea Elateriformia genera ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
False Click Beetle
Eucnemidae, or false click beetles, are a family of elateroid beetles based on the type genus '' Eucnemis''; they include about 1700 species, distributed worldwide. Description Closely related to the family Elateridae, specimens of Eucnemidae can reach a length of . Bodies are slightly flattened and convex. The upper surfaces of the body usually has hairs, setae or scales. Ecology The larvae are typically legless, and generally develop feeding on the fluids of rotting wood, likely vomiting digestive enzymes into the wood to break apart the fungal hyphae, moving using their shovel shaped heads to force apart the wood. Adults, which are typically found on broken surfaces of trunks and stumps, have a short lifespan and it is unclear whether they feed, though they are capable fliers, and like some other elateroids are capable of clicking. Taxonomy Extant Genera The Global Biodiversity Information Facility [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elateridae
Elateridae or click beetles (or "typical click beetles" to distinguish them from the related families Cerophytidae and Eucnemidae, which are also capable of clicking) 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. The evolutionary purpose of this click is debated: hypotheses include that the clicking noise deters predators or is used for communication, or that the click may allow the beetle to "pop" out of the subtrate in which it is pupating. It is unlikely that the cl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierre André Latreille
Pierre André Latreille (; 29 November 1762 – 6 February 1833) was a French zoology, zoologist, specialising in arthropods. Having trained as a Roman Catholic priest before the French Revolution, Latreille was imprisoned, and only regained his freedom after recognising a rare beetle species he found in the prison, ''Necrobia ruficollis.'' He published his first important work, , in 1796, and was eventually employed by the . His foresighted work on arthropod systematics and Taxonomy (biology), taxonomy gained him respect and accolades, including being asked to write the volume on insects for George Cuvier's monumental work, , the only part not by Cuvier himself. Latreille was considered the foremost entomology, entomologist of his time, and was described by one of his pupils as "the prince of entomologists". Biography Early life Pierre André Latreille was born on 29 November 1762 in the town of Brive-la-Gaillarde, Brive, then in the Limousin (province), province of Limousi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cantharidae
The soldier beetles (Cantharidae) are relatively soft-bodied, straight-sided beetles. They are Cosmopolitan distribution, cosmopolitan in distribution. One of the first described species has a color pattern reminiscent of the Red coat (British army), red coats of early British soldiers, hence the common name. They are also known commonly as leatherwings because of their soft elytron, elytra. Historically, these beetles were placed in a superfamily "Cantharoidea", which has been subsumed by the superfamily Elateroidea; the name is still sometimes used as a rankless grouping, including the families Cantharidae, Lampyridae, Lycidae, Omethidae (which includes Telegeusidae), Phengodidae, and Rhagophthalmidae. Soldier beetles often feed on nectar and pollen as well as predating other small insects. The larvae are caterpillar like, dark colored, active and covered in fine hairs, earning them the name velvet worms. They feed on the ground and in foliage hunting eggs, small insects ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brachypsectridae
The Brachypsectridae are a family of beetles commonly known as the Texas beetles. There are only two extant genera, '' Brachypsectra'' and '' Asiopsectra. Brachypsectra'' has a cosmopolitan distribution, mostly in arid regions, while ''Asiopsectra'' is found in Central Asia and the Middle East. Taxonomy The family is somewhat enigmatic since the discovery and description of the first species, ''Brachypsectra fulva''. This was originally included in the family Dascillidae, but was later placed in the new family Brachypsectridae by Horn (1881). While formerly considered monogeneric, in 2016 a new genus '' Asiopsectra'' was described from specimens found in Iran and Tajikistan. Two extinct genera, '' Vetubrachypsectra'' and '' Hongipsectra'', known from adults, and a larval genus, '' Cretopsectra'' are known from mid Cretaceous (latest Albian-earliest Cenomanian ~ 100 million years ago) Burmese amber. A fossil species of ''Brachypsectra,'' ''B. moronei'' is known from Miocene aged ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Artematopodidae
Artematopodidae is a family of soft-bodied plant beetles in the superfamily Elateroidea. They are mostly found in understory forest foliage. The life history of the group is obscure, larvae of the genera '' Eurypogon'' and '' Macropogon'' likely feed on moss, while the larvae of '' Artematopus'' have been fed insect remains. The oldest fossils of the family date to the Middle Jurassic. Genera * '' Allopogonia'' Cockerell, 1906 * '' Artematopus'' Perty, 1830 * '' Brevipogon'' Lawrence, 2005 * '' Carcinognathus'' Kirsch, 1873 * '' Ctesibius'' Champion, 1897 * '' Electribius'' Crowson, 1973 * '' Eurypogon'' Motschulsky, 1859 * '' Macropogon'' Motschulsky, 1859 Extinct genera * †'' Cretobrevipogon'' Cai et al, 2020 Yixian Formation, China, Early Cretaceous (Aptian) * †'' Sinobrevipogon'' Cai et al, 2015 Daohugou Beds, China, Middle Jurassic ( Callovian)'''' * †'' Bipogonia'' Li et al, 2022 Burmese amber, Myanmar, Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian The Cenomanian is, in the I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elateriformia
Elateriformia is an infraorder of polyphagan beetles. The two largest families in this group are buprestids, of which there are around 15,000 described species, and click beetles, of which there are around 10,000 described species. The infraorder consists of six superfamilies:Lawrence, J. F. & Newton, A. F. Jr. 1995. ''Families and subfamilies of Coleoptera (with selectes genera, notes, references and data on family-group names).'' In: Pakaluk y Slipinski (Eds.). Biology, phylogeny and classification of Coleoptera: Papers celebrating the 80th birthday of Roy A. Crowson. Muzeum i Instytut Zoologii PAN, Warszawa. Pp. 779-1006. . * Buprestoidea — the metallic wood-boring beetles * Byrrhoidea — families including long-toed water beetles, moss beetles and mud-loving beetles * Dascilloidea * Elateroidea — including the click beetle Elateridae or click beetles (or "typical click beetles" to distinguish them from the related families Cerophytidae and Eucnemidae, which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rhinorhipidae
''Rhinorhipus'' is a genus of beetles that contains a single species, ''Rhinorhipus tamborinensis'' from southern Queensland, Australia. It is the sole member of the family Rhinorhipidae and superfamily Rhinorhipoidea. It is an isolated lineage not closely related to any other living beetle, estimated to have split from other beetles at least 200 million years ago, with studies either considering them the earliest diverging member of Elateriformia, or a basal lineage within Polyphaga. They exhibit feigning death ( thanatosis) when disturbed. Their ecology is poorly known. It is likely that they are fossorial A fossorial animal () is one that is adapted to digging and which lives primarily (but not solely) underground. Examples of fossorial vertebrates are Mole (animal), moles, badgers, naked mole-rats, meerkats, armadillos, wombats, and mole salamand ... based on their morphology.Lawrence, John F.. "4.1. Rhinorhipidae Lawrence, 1988". ''Volume 2 Morphology and Systematics (Elat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Podabrocephalidae
''Podabrocephalus'' is an enigmatic monotypic genus in the family Ptilodactylidae. For decades it had historically been placed in its own family, Podabrocephalidae, or sometimes included in the highly diverse family Cerambycidae The longhorn beetles (Cerambycidae), also known as long-horned or longicorns (whose larvae are often referred to as roundheaded borers), are a large family of beetles, with over 35,000 species described. Most species are characterized by anten ..., but more recent analyses firmly place it within Ptilodactylidae.Kundrata, R., M. A. Ivie, and L. Bocak. 2019. ''Podabrocephalus'' Pic is the morphologically modified lineage of Ptilodactylinae (Coleoptera: Elateriformia: Ptilodactylidae). Insect Syst. Evol. 50: 147–161. Its only species is ''Podabrocephalus sinuaticollis'', known from southern India. References Byrrhoidea Byrrhoidea genera Monotypic Elateriformia genera Beetles of Asia Taxa named by Maurice Pic {{Elateriformia-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
