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Hemicrepidius Morio
''Hemicrepidius morio'' is a species of click beetle belonging to the family Elateridae. i References External links Images of Hemicrepidius morio on BugGuide Beetles described in 1853 [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Lawrence LeConte
John Lawrence LeConte (May 13, 1825 – November 15, 1883) was an American entomologist of the 19th century, responsible for naming and describing approximately half of the insect taxa known in the United States during his lifetime,Bird Name Biographies - URL retrieved September 14, 2006 including some 5,000 of beetles. He was recognized as the foremost authority on North American s during his lifetime, and has been described as "the father of American beetle study".Evans, Arthur V., and James N. Hogue. 2004. Chapter 1: A Brief History of Beetle Study in California. ''I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 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. Clicking is mainly used to avoid predation, although it is also useful when the beetle is on its back and needs to right itself. There are about 9300 known species worldwide, and 965 valid species in North America. Etymology Leach took the family name from the g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BugGuide
BugGuide (or BugGuide.net) is a website and online community of naturalists, both amateur and professional, who share observations of arthropods such as insects, spiders, and other related creatures. The website consists of informational guide pages and many thousands of photographs of arthropods from the United States and Canada which are used for identification and research. The non-commercial site is hosted by the Iowa State University Iowa State University of Science and Technology (Iowa State University, Iowa State, or ISU) is a public land-grant research university in Ames, Iowa. Founded in 1858 as the Iowa Agricultural College and Model Farm, Iowa State became one of the ... Department of Entomology. BugGuide was conceived by photographer Troy Bartlett in 2003 and since 2006 has been maintained by John VanDyk, an adjunct assistant professor of entomology and a senior systems analyst at Iowa State University. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beetles Described In 1853
Beetles are insects that form the order Coleoptera (), in the superorder Endopterygota. Their front pair of wings are hardened into wing-cases, elytra, distinguishing them from most other insects. The Coleoptera, with about 400,000 described species, is the largest of all orders, constituting almost 40% of described insects and 25% of all known animal life-forms; new species are discovered frequently, with estimates suggesting that there are between 0.9 and 2.1 million total species. Found in almost every habitat except the sea and the polar regions, they interact with their ecosystems in several ways: beetles often feed on plants and fungi, break down animal and plant debris, and eat other invertebrates. Some species are serious agricultural pests, such as the Colorado potato beetle, while others such as Coccinellidae (ladybirds or ladybugs) eat aphids, scale insects, thrips, and other plant-sucking insects that damage crops. Beetles typically have a particularly hard exoske ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hemicrepidius
''Hemicrepidius'' is a genus of click beetle belonging to the family Elateridae. Species * '' Hemicrepidius acuminatus'' Champion, 1896 * '' Hemicrepidius amitinus'' Champion, 1896 * '' Hemicrepidius amoenus'' Philippi, 1861 * '' Hemicrepidius aterrimus'' Champion, 1896 * '' Hemicrepidius biformis'' Champion, 1896 * '' Hemicrepidius bilobatus'' (Say, 1834) * '' Hemicrepidius bivittatus'' Champion, 1896 * '' Hemicrepidius brevicollis'' Candèze, 1863 * '' Hemicrepidius californicus'' (Becker, 1979) * '' Hemicrepidius candezei'' Champion, 1896 * '' Hemicrepidius carbonarius'' (Stepanov, 1935) * '' Hemicrepidius carbonatus'' (LeConte, 1860) * '' Hemicrepidius chinensis'' Kishii & Jiang, 1996 * '' Hemicrepidius colchicus'' (Iablokoff-Khnzorian, 1962) * '' Hemicrepidius consanguineus'' Champion, 1896 * '' Hemicrepidius consobrinus'' Champion, 1896 * '' Hemicrepidius consors'' Heyden, 1884 * '' Hemicrepidius coreanus'' Kishii in Kishii & Paik, 2002 * '' Hemicrepidius corvinus'' (Reitte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
