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Click Beetles
Elateridae
Insects in the family Elateridae are commonly called click beetles (or "typical click beetles" to distinguish them from the related families Cerophytidae, Eucnemidae, and Plastoceridae). 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 closely related families in which a few members have the same mechanism,...
20 branches of this family, most-observed first
Agrypninae
subfamilyAgrypninae
Dendrometrinae
subfamilyDendrometrinae
Elaterinae
subfamilyElaterinae
Cardiophorinae
subfamilyCardiophorinae
Oxynopterinae
subfamilyOxynopterinae
Semiotinae
subfamilySemiotinae
Cebrioninae
subfamilyCebrioninae
Hemiopinae
subfamilyHemiopinae
Lissominae
subfamilyLissominae
Negastriinae
subfamilyNegastriinae
Parablacinae
subfamilyParablacinae
Pityobiinae
subfamilyPityobiinae
Hapatesinae
subfamilyHapatesinae
Oestodinae
subfamilyOestodinae
Thylacosterninae
subfamilyThylacosterninae
Eudicronychinae
subfamilyEudicronychinae
Physodactylinae
subfamilyPhysodactylinae
Campyloxeninae
subfamilyCampyloxeninae
Morostomatinae
subfamilyMorostomatinae
Itodacne
genusItodacne
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 53248.