Taxonavigation

Familia: Elateridae
Subfamiliae (18 + 1†): Agrypninae – Campyloxeninae – Cardiophorinae – Cebrioninae – Dendrometrinae – Elaterinae – Eudicronychinae – Hemiopinae – Lissominae – Morostomatinae – Negastriinae – Oxynopterinae – Physodactylinae – Pityobiinae – †Protagrypninae – Semiotinae – Sinopyrophorinae – Subprotelaterinae – Tetralobinae – Thylacosterninae

Overview of genera

Campylomorphus – Dacnitus – †Cardiosyne – Neoabiphis – Neolycoreus – Paulusiella – Plectrosternus – Limoniscus – ... Sinopyrophorus

Name

Elateridae Leach, 1815

References

• Leach, W.E. 1815. Entomology [pp. 57–172]. In: Brewster, D. (Ed). Brewster’s Edinburgh Encyclopedia. Volume IX [part I]. W. Blackwood, J. Waugh, etc., Edinburgh, 764 pp. BHL. Reference page. 

• Bi, W-X., He, J-W., Chen, C-C., Kundrata, R. & Li, X-Y. 2019. Sinopyrophorinae, a new subfamily of Elateridae (Coleoptera, Elateroidea) with the first record of a luminous click beetle in Asia and evidence for multiple origins of bioluminescence in Elateridae.ZooKeys, 864: 79–97. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.864.26689 . Reference page. 

• Bouchard, P., Bousquet, Y., Davies, A.E., Alonso-Zarazaga, M.A., Lawrence, J.F., Lyal, C.H.C., Newton, A.F., Reid, C.A.M., Schmitt, M., Ślipiński, S.A. & Smith, A.B.T. 2011. Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta). ZooKeys 88: 1–972. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.88.807 Reference page. 
• Costa, C., Lawrence, J.F. & Policena Rosa, S. 2010. 4.7. Elateridae Leach, 1815. Pp. 75–103 in: Leschen, R.A.B., Beutel, R.G. & Lawrence, J.F. (volume eds.) Coleoptera, beetles. Volume 2: Morphology and systematics (Elateroidea, Bostrichiformia, Cucujiformia partim). In: Kristensen, N.P. & Beutel, R.G. (eds.) Handbook of zoology. A natural history of the phyla of the animal kingdom. Volume IV. Arthropoda: Insecta. Part 38. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter. ISBN 3-11-019075-3, ISBN 978-3-11-019075-5
• Douglas, H. 2011. Phylogenetic relationships of Elateridae inferred from adult morphology, with special reference to the position of Cardiophorinae. Zootaxa 2900: 1–45. Preview (PDF)

• Kundrata, R. & Bocak, L. 2011. The phylogeny and limits of Elateridae (Insecta, Coleoptera): is there a common tendency of click beetles to soft-bodiedness and neoteny? Zoologica scripta 40(4): 364–378. DOI: 10.1111/j.1463-6409.2011.00476.x Reference page. 

• Kundrata, R., Kubaczkova, M., Prosvirov, A.S., Douglas, H.B., Fojtikova, A., Costa, C., Bosquet, Y., Alonso-Zarazaga, M.A. & Bouchard, P. 2019. World catalogue of the genus-group names in Elateridae (Insecta, Coleoptera). Part I: Agrypninae, Campyloxeninae, Hemiopinae, Lissominae, Oestodinae, Parablacinae, Physodactylinae, Pityobiinae, Subprotelaterinae, Tetralobinae. Zookeys, 839: 83–154. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.839.33279 Reference page. 
• Lawrence, J.F., Beutel, R.G., Leschen, R.A.B. & Ślipiński, A. 2010. 1. Changes in classification and list of families and subfamilies. Pp. 1–7 in: Leschen, R.A.B., Beutel, R.G. & Lawrence, J.F. (volume eds.) Coleoptera, beetles. Volume 2: Morphology and systematics (Elateroidea, Bostrichiformia, Cucujiformia partim). In: Kristensen, N.P. & Beutel, R.G. (eds.) Handbook of zoology. A natural history of the phyla of the animal kingdom. Volume IV. Arthropoda: Insecta. Part 38. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter. ISBN 3-11-019075-3, ISBN 978-3-11-019075-5

Vernacular names

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