Click Beetle
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Elateridae
Alaus
Alaus oculatus
Adults reach a length of 24-45 mm . The adult beetle is long and thin (Arnett, et al 1980). Alaus oculatus has distinctive eyespots that cover about one third the length of the pronotum. These large white… More »
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Click beetle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The family Elateridae is commonly called click beetles (or "typical click beetles" to distinguish them form the related Cerophytidae and Eucnemidae), elaters , snapping beetles , spring beetl...
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A Field Guide to Common Texas Insects, Bastiaan Drees and John Jackman. ... Description: Click beetles are elongated, parallel-sided and usually bear backward projections on the side corners of the shield behind the head (pronotum). They are somewhat flattened and range in size and color by species.
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Click beetles are also called "elaters", a word best known to crossword puzzle fans. Several hundred species of them are known in the United States and about three thousand in the world. Most of our common ones are brown, gray or black and range from a quarter-inch to an inch in length.
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Gallery of click beetles ; (photos by A.A. Medvedev) ... Calder A.A. Click beetles. Genera of Australian Elateridae // Monographs on Invertebrate Taxonomy. 2. Collingwood, Victoria, 1996. 432 p. ... Smith J.W., Enns W.R. The click-beetles subfamilies Agrypninae, Pyrophorinae and Melanotinae (Coleoptera,
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Click Beetles--like bees, ants, butterflies, and some other insect orders--undergo a four-stage (complete) metamorphosis that includes the egg, larva (AKA "grub"), pupa, and adult. Although adults are harmless, Click Beetle larvae cause significant agricultural and horticultural damage.
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If, as mentioned above, these beetles roll over on their backs when basking on the grass, ... Many of the Click beetles, such as the one pictured above, live in the woodlands. Others such as Agriotes lineatus, have soil living larvae which are known as wireworms, and which are often confused with Centipedes.
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Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Click beetles. Click beetles. Information about Click beetles in the Hutchinson encyclopedia. ... (redirected from Click beetles)
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The Click Beetles (Elateridae) of Hawaii ... Bernice P. Bishop Museum and ... Professor of Entomology...
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