''Lanelater fuscipes'' is a species of
click beetle belonging to the family
Elateridae subfamily
Agrypninae.
Description
''Lanelater fuscipes'' can reach a length of . These large
click beetles have a dark brown body. Usually they show a puncturation of the pronotum and an evident striation of the elytra, but the species is quite variable, especially in the length and in degree of convexity of the prothorax. Its larvae live in the coconut palms.
Distribution
This species can be found in
Madagascar,
Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්රී ලංකා, Śrī Laṅkā, translit-std=ISO (); ta, இலங்கை, Ilaṅkai, translit-std=ISO ()), formerly known as Ceylon and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an ...
,
India and
Indochina.
References
Biolib* HlTOO ÔHIRA
A List of the Elaterid-Beetles from South Asia Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology series Vol 38 1979
Elateridae
Taxa named by Johan Christian Fabricius
Beetles described in 1775
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