''Elateroides'' is a genus of rarely found

beetle Beetles are insects that form the Taxonomic rank, order Coleoptera (), in the superorder Holometabola. Their front pair of wings are hardened into wing-cases, elytra, distinguishing them from most other insects. The Coleoptera, with about 40 ...

s in the family

Lymexylidae The Lymexylidae (historically often spelled Lymexylonidae), also known as ship-timber beetles, are a family of wood-boring beetles. Lymexylidae belong to the suborder Polyphaga and are the sole member of the superfamily Lymexyloidea. Habitat an ...

, containing the following species:Lymexylidae Species List
at Joel Hallan’s Biology Catalog. Texas A&M University. Retrieved on 17 May 2012.

Species

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Elateroides dermestoides ''Elateroides dermestoides'' is a species of ship-timber beetles native to Europe. Description The beetles are long. The females are yellow-brown. The colouring of the males differ greatly, but the majority are black. The males have charact ...

'' (Linnaeus, 1761) * ''

Elateroides flabellicornis ''Elateroides'' is a genus of rarely found beetles in the family Lymexylidae, containing the following species:Elateroides lugubris'' (Say, 1835)

Taxonomy

Nardi 2019 writes (p. 597) "Bollow (1940: 867) described ''Hylecoetus dermestoides L. ab. nigrocephalus, H. dermestoides L. ab. Reitteri and H. dermestoides L. ab. Stoeckleini'' from Germany, but they are unavailable infrasubspecific names."

References

*Nardi, G. 2019. Synonymic notes on European Lymexylidae (Coleoptera). Zootaxa 4450(4): 597–599. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4450.4.11 Lymexylidae Cucujoidea genera {{Cucujiformia-stub