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Eucnemidae
Eucnemidae, or false click beetles, are a family of elateroid beetles based on the type genus '' Eucnemis''; they include about 1700 species, distributed worldwide. Description Closely related to the family Elateridae, specimens of Eucnemidae can reach a length of . Bodies are slightly flattened and convex. The upper surfaces of the body usually has hairs, setae or scales. Ecology The larvae are typically legless, and generally develop feeding on the fluids of rotting wood, likely vomiting digestive enzymes into the wood to break apart the fungal hyphae, moving using their shovel shaped heads to force apart the wood. Adults, which are typically found on broken surfaces of trunks and stumps, have a short lifespan and it is unclear whether they feed, though they are capable fliers, and like some other elateroids are capable of clicking. Taxonomy Extant Genera The Global Biodiversity Information Facility [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Perothopinae
''Perothops'' is a genus of Eucnemidae, false click beetles in the family Eucnemidae containing 3 species. They are known as beech-tree beetles or perothopid beetles. They are small as they are only 10–18 millimeters long. It is the only genus in the monotypic subfamily Perothopinae. They are dark-colored beetles that are found across the United States, generally in forests. The genus was discovered by Johann Friedrich von Eschscholtz in 1836. It used to be considered a family not part of Eucnemidae. The genus's name is from Greek, translating to "maimed/crippled eye" or "eye of little necklaces/bands", referring to the placement of perothopid eyes. Adult morphology General description These beetles are small, measuring 10–18 mm in length. Their bodies are slightly flattened or somewhat convex, with sides that are not evenly curved. They cannot roll into a ball and their upper surfaces are covered in hairs, setae, or scales, but not stiff bristles. They lack deep grooves ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elateroidea
The Elateroidea are a large superfamily of beetles. It contains the familiar click beetles, fireflies, and soldier beetles and their relatives. It consists of about 25,000 species. Description Elateroidea is a morphologically diverse group, including hard-bodied beetles with 5 abdominal ventrites, soft-bodied beetles with 7-8 ventrites connected with membranes (formerly known as cantharoids), and beetles with intermediate forms. They have a range of sizes and colours, but in terms of shape, they are usually narrow and parallel-sided as adults. Many of the sclerotised elateroids ( Cerophytidae, Eucnemidae, Throscidae, Elateridae) have a clicking mechanism. This is a peg on the prothorax which fits into a cavity in the mesothorax. When a click beetle bends its body, the peg snaps into the cavity, causing the beetle's body to straighten so suddenly that it jumps into the air. Most beetles capable of bioluminescence are in the Elateroidea, in the families Lampyridae (~2000 s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Macraulacinae
The ''Macraulacinae'' are a subfamily of Eucnemidae, "false click beetle" genera, erected by species:Edmond Jean-Baptiste Fleutiaux, Edmond Fleutiaux in 1918.Seung J, Lee S, Muona J (2017) Taxonomic review of Macraulacinae and Eucneminae (Coleoptera: Eucnemidae) from Korea. ''Journal of Asia-Pacific Entomology'', 20 [2] 569-575. Tribes and genera Eight extant and one fossil Tribe (biology), tribes are included in ''BioLib.cz'':BioLib.cz: subfamily Macraulacinae Fleutiaux, 1922 (retrieved 5 January 2025) ;Anelastidini # ''Anelastidius'' ;Echthrogasterini # ''Dictyeucnemis'' # ''Echthrogaster'' # ''Hemiopsida'' ;Euryptychini # ''Euryptychus'' ;Jenibuntorini # ''Jenibuntor'' Macraulacini Authority: Fleutiaux, 1923 # ''Absensiugum'' # ''Asiocnemis'' # ''Ceratus'' # ''Chapianu ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dirrhagofarsus
''Dirrhagofarsus'' is a genus of beetles belonging to the family Eucnemidae Eucnemidae, or false click beetles, are a family of elateroid beetles based on the type genus '' Eucnemis''; they include about 1700 species, distributed worldwide. Description Closely related to the family Elateridae, specimens of Eucnemida .... The species of this genus are found in Europe and Northern America. Species: * '' Dirrhagofarsus attenuatus'' (Mäklin, 1845) * '' Dirrhagofarsus ernae'' Fleutiaux, 1935 References Eucnemidae Elateroidea genera {{Elateroidea-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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, 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. The evolutionary purpose of this click is debated: hypotheses include that the clicking noise deters predators or is used for communication, or that the click may allow the beetle to "pop" out of the subtrate in which it is pupating. It is unlikely that the cl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melasinae
Melasinae is a subfamily of false click beetles in the family Eucnemidae. Tribes and Genera ''BioLib'' (retrieved 4 January 2025) includes eight tribes: ;Calyptocerini # ''Calyptocerus'' # ''Otho (beetle)'' ;Ceballosmelasini # ''Ceballosmelasis'' Dirhagini Authority: Reitter, 1911 # ''Adelorhagus'' # ''Adelothyreus'' # ''Arganus'' # ''Arrhipis'' # ''Balistica'' # ''Buckiella'' # ''Cafolus'' # ''Clypeorhagus'' # ''Dirrhagofarsus'' Fleutiaux, 1935 # ''Entomophthalmus'' Bonvouloir, 1871 # ''Farsus'' # ''Freyiola'' # ''Fryanus'' # ''Golbachia'' Cobos, 1955 # ''Haywardius'' # ''Melocarvalhosia'' # ''Microrhagus'' Dejean, 1833 # ''Porraulacus'' # ''Prodirhagus'' # ''Protofarsus'' # ''Quirsf ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eucneminae
The ''Eucneminae'' are a subfamily of "false click beetle" genera, erected by Johann von Eschscholtz in 1889. Tribes and genera Ten tribes are included in ''BioLib.cz'':BioLib.cz: subfamily Eucneminae Eschscholtz, 1829 (retrieved 2 January 2025) ;Dendrocharini # '' Bossionus'' # '' Buckia'' # '' Dendrocharis'' # '' Scopulifer'' ;Dyscharachthini # '' Dyscharachthis'' ;Entomosatopin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eucnemis
''Eucnemis'' is a genus of mostly Palaearctic click beetle allies in the subfamily Eucneminae, erected by August Ahrens in 1812.Ahrens A (1812) ''Beiträge zur Kenntniss deutscher Käfer. Neue Schriften der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft zu Halle Bd.'' 2(2): 1-40. Species The Global Biodiversity Information Facility The Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) is an international organisation that focuses on making scientific data on biodiversity available via the Internet using web services. The data are provided by many institutions from around th ... lists:Global Biodiversity Information Facility: ''Eucnemis'' Ahrens, 1812 (retrieved 1 January 2025) # '' Eucnemis americana'' # ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
