The genus Nipponodrasterius Kishii (Coleoptera, Elateridae, Agrypninae), a junior synonym of the genus Gamepenthes Fleutiaux (Coleoptera, Elateridae, Elaterinae), with review of the Japanese Gamepenthes species [PDF]
ZooKeys, 2020 The genus Nipponodrasterius Kishii, 1966 was established as a member of the subfamily Conoderinae Fleutiaux, 1919 (now tribe Oophorini Gistel, 1848; subfamily Agrypninae Candèze, 1857) based on N. alpicola.
Kôichi Arimoto, Hisayuki Arimoto
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Anchored Phylogenomics, Evolution and Systematics of Elateridae: Are All Bioluminescent Elateroidea Derived Click Beetles? [PDF]
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 ...
Hume B. Douglas +10 more
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The first mainland European Mesozoic click-beetle (Coleoptera: Elateridae) revealed by X-ray micro-computed tomography scanning of an Upper Cretaceous amber from Hungary [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2022 Fossil bioinclusions in amber are invaluable source of information on the past evolution and diversity of various organisms, as well as on the paleoecosystems in general.
Márton Szabó +8 more
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Click Beetle Mitogenomics with the Definition of a New Subfamily Hapatesinae from Australasia (Coleoptera: Elateridae) [PDF]
Insects, 2020 Elateridae is a taxon with very unstable classification and a number of conflicting phylogenetic hypotheses have been based on morphology and molecular data.
Dominik Kusy +2 more
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A new click beetle genus from the Chilean Central Andes: Bohartina (Coleoptera, Elateridae, Elaterinae) [PDF]
Journal of Insect Science, 2006 Bohartina Arias, a new genus of Elateridae from forests in the Andean Cordillera of Central Chile, is here described and illustrated with 2 species: B. vilchesensis sp. nov. and B. palmae sp. nov. The genus Bohartina belongs to the subfamily Elaterinae and to the tribe Agriotini.
Arias ET.
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A New Click Beetle Genus from Southern Chile:Llanquihue(Coleoptera, Elateridae, Elaterinae, Pomachiliini) [PDF]
Journal of Insect Science, 2008 Llanquihue, a new genus of Elateridae from Southern Chile, is here described and illustrated with 2 species: Llanquihue vittipennis (Candèze) new comb., and L. carlota sp. nov. The genus Llanquihue belongs to the subfamily Elaterinae and to the tribe Pomachiliini.
Arias ET.
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Fossil Genera in Elateridae (Insecta, Coleoptera): A Triassic Origin and Jurassic Diversification [PDF]
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 ...
Robin Kundrata +2 more
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Diversity, 2022 The click beetles (Elateridae) originated in the Mesozoic and recently form a relatively large family with approximately 10,000 described species worldwide. However, the Mesozoic, and particularly Cretaceous, click beetle fauna remains very poorly known.
Katerina Triskova +3 more
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New records of Dicrepidius ramicornis (Coleoptera: Elateridae: Elaterinae) from Dominican Republic, Hispaniola [PDF]
Novitates Caribaea, 2012 Dicrepidius ramicornis (Palisot de Beauvois, 1805) is an elaterid beetle widely distributed in the Americas. Although first recorded from “Saint-Domingue” by Chevrolat in 1867, its presence in Hispaniola has been subsequently overlooked.
Daniel E. Perez-Gelabert
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Journal of Threatened Taxa, 2020 Lampropsephus sulcatus sp. nov. is described from the Konkan region of Maharashtra, India. A note to transfer Propsephus assamensis from Propsephus Candeze, 1859 to Sephilus Candeze, 1878 is included.
Amol Patwardhan, Rahul Khot
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