Elaterini

Belongs within: Elaterinae.

The Elaterini are a group of click beetles with a deflexed head, serrate antennae, anteriorly excavated prosternal sutures, and lingulate scutellum. Members of the type genus Elater have metacoxal plates that are sharply angulate near the mid width. The genus Diplostethus is distinguished by a strongly to acutely angulate declivity on the intercoxal process of the prosternum immediately posterior to the coxae. Orthostethus and Parallelostethus attenuatus have the sides of the mesosternal fossa horizontal with the anterior portion strongly declivous (Johnson 2002).

<==ElateriniPS07
    |--Dolerosomus Motschulsky 1859J02
    |--Neotrichophorus Jakobson 1913J02
    |--Sericus Eschscholtz 1829 [incl. Atractopterus LeConte 1853, Sericosomus Dejean 1833]J02
    |    `--S. (Shirozulus) formosanus (Ohira 1966) [=Shirozulus formosanus]PS07
    |--Parallelostethus Schwarz 1907J02
    |    `--P. attenuatusJ02
    |--Diplostethus Schwarz 1907J02
    |    |--D. opacicollisJ02
    |    `--D. peninsularisJ02
    |--Mulsanteus Gozis 1875PS07
    |    |--M. foldvarii Platia & Schimmel 2007PS07
    |    |--M. junior (Candèze 1873)PS07
    |    |--M. peregovitsi Platia & Schimmel 2007PS07
    |    `--M. rubiginosus (Ohira 1966)PS07
    |--Orthostethus Lacordaire 1857 [incl. Crigmus LeConte 1853]J02
    |    |--O. babaiPS07
    |    |    |--O. b. babaiPS07
    |    |    `--O. b. taiwanus (Kishii 1989) [=Elater (Nipponoelater) taiwanus]PS07
    |    |--O. cavicepsJ02
    |    `--O. infuscatusJ02
    `--Elater Linnaeus 1758 [incl. Ludius Berthold 1827, Steatoderus Dejean 1833]J02
         |--E. aeneus Linnaeus 1758L58 [=Ludius aeneusC01]
         |--‘Ludius’ affinisC01
         |--E. asperulus Candèze 1882M86
         |--E. aterrimusR26
         |--E. ‘australis’ Candèze 1859 non Boisduval 1835C96
         |--E. balteatus Linnaeus 1758L58
         |--E. bipustulatusR26
         |--E. brunneus Linnaeus 1758L58
         |--E. burmitinus Cockerell 1917P92
         |--E. castaneus Linnaeus 1758L58
         |--E. cinnabarinusC01
         |--E. cruciatus Linnaeus 1758L58 [=Ludius cruciatusC01]
         |--‘Ludius’ exutus Candèze 1863M86
         |--E. fasciatus Linnaeus 1758L58
         |--E. ferrugineus Linnaeus 1758L58
         |--E. goryi Boisduval 1835C96
         |--E. granulatipennis Lea 1908C96
         |--‘Ludius’ hydropicus Candèze 1882M86
         |--‘Ludius’ latusC01
         |--E. linearis Linnaeus 1758L58
         |--‘Ludius’ lineatus Candèze 1863M86
         |--E. marginatus Linnaeus 1758L58
         |--‘Ludius’ melancholicusC01
         |--E. mesomelus Linnaeus 1758L58
         |--E. minutus Linnaeus 1758L58
         |--E. modestus [=Agrypnus modestus]B35
         |--E. niger Linnaeus 1758L58
         |--‘Ludius’ nigricornisC01
         |--E. noctilucus Linnaeus 1758L58
         |--E. obscurus Linnaeus 1758L58
         |--E. oculatus Linnaeus 1758L58
         |--E. pectinicornis Linnaeus 1758L58
         |--E. perplexus Candèze 1859M86
         |--E. phosphoreus Linnaeus 1758L58
         |--‘Ludius’ puberulusC01
         |--E. pulchellusR26
         |--E. pusillus Candèze 1878M86
         |--E. ruficollis Linnaeus 1758L58
         |--E. sanguineus Linnaeus 1758L58
         |--E. sanguinolentus [incl. E. sanguinolentus var. ephippium]C01
         |--‘Ludius’ sjaelandicusC01
         |--E. sputator Linnaeus 1758L58
         |--E. syriacus Linnaeus 1758L58
         |--E. thoracicusR26
         |--E. tessellatus Linnaeus 1758L58 [=Ludius tesselatusC01]
         |--E. tristis Linnaeus 1758L58
         `--E. wentworthensis Blackburn 1892C96

*Type species of generic name indicated

References

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[C96] Calder, A. A. 1996. Click beetles: genera of the Australian Elateridae (Coleoptera). CSIRO Australia: Collingwood.

[C01] Csiki, E. 1901. Bogarak [Coleopteren]. In: Horváth, G. (ed.) Zichy Jenő Gróf Harmadik Ázsiai Utazása [Dritte Asiatische Forschungsreise des Grafen Eugen Zichy] vol. 2. Zichy Jenő Gróf Harmadik Ázsiai Utazásának Állattani Eredményei [Zoologische Ergebnisse der Dritten Asiatischen Forschungsreise des Grafen Eugen Zichy] pp. 75–120. Victor Hornyánszky: Budapest, and Karl W. Hierseman: Leipzig.

[J02] Johnson, P. J. 2002. Elateridae Leach 1815. In: Arnett, R. H., Jr, M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley & J. H. Frank (eds) American Beetles vol. 2. Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea pp. 160–173. CRC Press.

[L58] Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Tomus I. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentii Salvii: Holmiae.

[M86] Masters, G. 1886. Catalogue of the described Coleoptera of Australia. Part IV. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, series 2, 1 (2): 259–380.

[PS07] Platia, G., & R. Schimmel. 2007. Click beetles of Taiwan collected by the expeditions of the Hungarian Natural History Museum in the years 1995 to 2003 (Coleoptera: Elateridae). Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici 99: 49–91.

[P92] Poinar, G. O., Jr. 1992. Life in Amber. Stanford University Press: Stanford.

[R26] Risso, A. 1826. Histoire naturelle des principales productions de l’Europe méridionale et particulièrement de celles des environs de Nice et des Alpes maritimes vol. 5. F.-G. Levrault: Paris.