''Agriotes obscurus'', the wireworm click beetle, is a species of

click beetle 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 (biology), family of beetles. Other names include elaters, sna ...

native to

Europe Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere. It is bordered by the Arctic Ocean to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the west, the Mediterranean Sea to the south, and Asia to the east ...

.Norman H. Joy, 1932 ''

A Practical Handbook of British Beetles ''A Practical Handbook of British Beetles'' is a two-volume work on the British beetle fauna, by Norman H. Joy, first published by H. F. & G. Witherby in January 1932. Contents Volume one (xxviii + 622 pages) consists of the text (largely ...

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References

Elateridae Beetles described in 1758 Beetles of Europe Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus {{elateridae-stub