''Agriotes lineatus'' is a species of

beetle 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 describ ...

in the genus of ''

Agriotes ''Agriotes'' is a genus of beetles in the family Elateridae which includes numerous species, many of which are found in the Americas, Asia and much of Europe. Species The Global Biodiversity Information Facility The Global Biodiversity Inform ...

'' from the family of

Elateridae 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, spr ...

. It is commonly known as the lined click beetle.

Description

Beetle in length . ''Agriotes lineatus'' upperbody is mid-brown color. Not so frequent in Scotland, that is more common in England, Wales. This species

pronotum The prothorax is the foremost of the three segments in the thorax of an insect, and bears the first pair of legs. Its principal sclerites (exoskeletal plates) are the pronotum (dorsal), the prosternum (ventral), and the propleuron (lateral) on ea ...

and

elytra An elytron (; ; , ) is a modified, hardened forewing of beetles (Coleoptera), though a few of the true bugs (Hemiptera) such as the family Schizopteridae are extremely similar; in true bugs, the forewings are called hemelytra (sometimes alterna ...

look rounded. Mostly the insect's parts lighter than its legs and antennae. The insect's head and pronotum are much shorter than its antennae.

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Elateridae Beetles of Europe Beetles described in 1767 Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus {{elateridae-stub