|
Epiphanini
Melasinae is a subfamily of false click beetles in the family Eucnemidae. Tribes and Genera ''BioLib'' (retrieved 4 January 2025) includes eight tribes: ;Calyptocerini # '' Calyptocerus'' # '' Otho (beetle)'' ;Ceballosmelasini # '' Ceballosmelasis'' Dirhagini Authority: Reitter, 1911 # '' Adelorhagus'' # '' Adelothyreus ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eucnemidae
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] |
Sarpedon (beetle)
Sarpedon (; ) is the name of several figures in Greek mythology * Sarpedon, a son of Zeus, who fought on the side of Troy in the Trojan War. Although in the ''Iliad'', he was the son of Zeus and Laodamia, the daughter of Bellerophon, in the later standard tradition, he was the son of Zeus and Europa, and the brother of Minos and Rhadamanthus, while in other accounts the Sarpedon who fought at Troy was the grandson of the Sarpedon who was the brother of Minos. * Sarpedon, a Thracian son of Poseidon, eponym of Cape Sarpedon near the outlet of the River Hebrus, and brother to Poltys, King of Aenus. Unlike the other two Sarpedons, this Thracian Sarpedon was not a hero, but an insolent individual who was shot to death by Heracles as the latter was sailing away from Aenus.Apollodorus2.5.9/ref> Notes References * Apollodorus Apollodorus ( Greek: Ἀπολλόδωρος ''Apollodoros'') was a popular name in ancient Greece. It is the masculine gender of a noun compounded from Apollo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarfus
''Sarfus'' is a genus of Elateroidea, click beetle allies in the subfamily Melasinae and Tribe (biology), tribe Dirhagini, erected by species:Edmond Jean-Baptiste Fleutiaux, Edmond Fleutiaux in 1925.Fleutiaux (1925) ''Rev. Zool. afric.'', 13. References External links Elateroidea genera Eucnemidae {{Elateroidea-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rhacopus
''Rhacopus'' is a genus of beetles belonging to the family Eucnemidae 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 Eucnemida .... The species of this genus are found in Europe and Japan. Species: * '' Rhacopus olexai'' (Hisamatsu, 1963) * '' Rhacopus sahlbergi'' (Mannerheim, 1823) References Eucnemidae Beetle genera {{Elateroidea-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Microrhagus
''Microrhagus'' is a genus of beetles belonging to the family Eucnemidae 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 Eucnemida .... The species of this genus are found in Europe, Japan and Northern America. Species: * '' Microrhagus audax'' Horn, 1886 * '' Microrhagus breviangularis'' Otto, 2015 References Eucnemidae Elateroidea genera {{Elateroidea-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |