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Elateridae family

Click beetles
Eyed click beetle Alaus oculatus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Superfamily: Elateroidea
Family: Elateridae
Leach, 1815
Genus
  • Abiphis
  • Actenicerus
  • Agrypnus
  • Alaus
  • Calais
  • Campsosternus
  • Chalcolepidius
  • Elater
  • Euphemus
  • Hemiops
  • Lycoreus
  • Melanotus
  • Oxynopterus
  • Paracalais
  • Pyrophorus
  • Selatosomus
  • Semiotu
  • Spinifornax
  • Tetralobus
 
Click beetles (Elateridae family) are called as such because of their unusual physical mechanism they possess. When threatned or if upside down, an Elateridae can “click” it way out of trouble: it can produce a violent snap with its body than will eject the beetle into the air. There are about 7000 species of click beetle known to man.
Click beetle can be found large and colorful (some even with a metallic green) such as in the Campostermus species found in Asia or visually intricate such as Oxynopterus auduoin with its long feathery antennae.
 
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Elateridae sp 15 mm Peru 189
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Elateridae Semiotus sp 23 mm Peru 913
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Elateridae Chalcolepidius sp 35 mm Peru 1275
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Elateridae Semiotus sp 38 mm  Peru 638
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Elateridae Semiotus sp 32 mm  Peru 913
Elateridae Semiotus sp 32 mm Peru 913
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Elateridae Pyrophorus sp 36 mm  Peru 672
Elateridae Pyrophorus sp 36 mm Peru 672
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Elateridae sp 35 39 mm  PAIR  Peru 1067
Elateridae sp 35 39 mm PAIR Peru 1067
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Beetle Elateridae ssp NICE
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Beetle Elateridae ssp
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Beetle Elateridae ssp
Beetle Elateridae ssp
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OXYNOPTERUS AUDUOIN Male Largest Elateridae Beetle Beautiful
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UNMOUNTED ASSORTED Carabidae CetonnidaeElateridae + Others N BORNEO X
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Elateridae species 13mm
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Elateridae species 14mm
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Elateridae sp A1 No9265 Guangxi
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Elateridae of North Borneo Sabah 02
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BEETLE UNMOUNTED Elateridae Sp Sabah 18
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