A faunistic study of the family Elateridae in Bačka, Serbia [PDF]
Pesticidi i Fitomedicina, 2017 A faunistic study of the family Elateridae was carried out in Bačka, the north-western district of Vojvodina Province in Serbia, focusing on their preferred habitats and soil types.
Toscano Bruno +6 more
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PCR-based species identification tools for wireworms (Coleoptera: Elateridae) of economic importance in Canada. [PDF]
Pest Manag SciSpecies‐specific PCR primers and PCR‐based assays were designed for the identification of 15 economically important and difficult to distinguish wireworm pests in Canada. PCR specificity testing and performance assessments confirm the accuracy of the assays.
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Biology, 2021 Click-beetles (Coleoptera: Elateridae) are an abundant, diverse, and economically important beetle family that includes bioluminescent species. To date, molecular phylogenies have sampled relatively few taxa and genes, incompletely resolving subfamily ...
Robin Kundrata +2 more
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Fossil Genera in Elateridae (Insecta, Coleoptera): A Triassic Origin and Jurassic Diversification
Insects, 2020 Insect fossils bear important information about the evolutionary history of the group. The fossil record of Elateridae, a large cosmopolitan beetle family, has been greatly understudied and the available data are often replete with ambiguity and ...
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Consequences of the Loss of the Clicking Mechanism: A Study of Thoracic Functional Morphology in Plastocerus thoracicus Fleutiaux, 1918 (Coleoptera: Elateridae) [PDF]
InsectsElateridae (Coleoptera: Elateroidea) are renowned for their clicking mechanism. However, several lineages exhibit body softening that compromises this mechanism, particularly within Plastocerini, Drilini, and Omalisinae.
Liya Ma +8 more
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The first record of the genus Agrypnus Eschscholtz, 1829 (Coleoptera: Elateridae) in Mongolia [PDF]
Кавказский энтомологический бюллетень, 2023 The genus Agrypnus Eschscholtz, 1829 (Coleoptera: Elateridae) and the species A. murinus (Linnaeus, 1758) are recorded for Mongolia for the first time. This species is widely distributed in the Palaearctic, mainly in Euro-Siberian region.
Ts. Ulzii, Ch. Gantigmaa, U. Aibek
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The Clicking Elateroidea from Chinese Mesozoic Deposits (Insecta, Coleoptera)
Insects, 2020 Recent molecular studies have suggested that the clicking beetle families Elateridae, Eucnemidae, Throscidae, and Cerophytidae evolved in the Jurassic and diversified in the Cretaceous.
Jyrki Muona, Huali Chang, Dong Ren
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Cretopachyderes gen. nov., a new remarkable click beetle (Coleoptera: Elateridae: Agrypninae) from the mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber [PDF]
Fossil Record, 2021 Although the Mesozoic Era played an important role in the evolution and diversification of Elateridae, the Cretaceous click-beetle fauna remains very poorly known. Here we describe Cretopachyderes burmitinus gen. et sp. nov.
R. Kundrata +4 more
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The complete mitogenome of jewel click beetle Campsosternus auratus (Drury, 1773)
Mitochondrial DNA. Part B. Resources, 2022 Campsosternus auratus (Drury, 1773) is a large, beautiful click beetle found in Southern China. The complete mitogenome of C. auratus was reported in this study. The mitogenome contains 15,943 base pairs. The composition of mitogenome is 39.6% for A, 9.9%
Xiaoning Zhang, Qingbai Hou
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Listado de los géneros de Elateridae (Coleoptera: Elateroidea) del Valle del Cauca, Colombia
Biota Colombiana, 2010 Se examinaron 1060 ejemplares de la familia Elateridae (Coleoptera) distribuidos por todo el país, de los cuales 583 fueron colectados en el departamento del Valle del Cauca y pertenecientes a la Colección de Zoología General del Instituto de Ciencias ...
María del Pilar Aguirre-Tapiero +2 more
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