Elaterinae

Elaterinae is a subfamily of click beetles in the family Elateridae, containing 12 tribes worldwide.^[1]

Ampedus nigricollis

Melanotus leonardi

Agriotes fucosus

Elaterinae
Megapenthes caprella
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Family:	Elateridae
Subfamily:	Elaterinae Leach, 1815
Tribes
Agriotini Ampedini Aplastini Cebrionini Dicrepidiini Elaterini Megapenthini Melanotini Odontonychini Physorhinini Pomachiliini Synaptini

Selected genera

• Agriotes
• Ampedus
• Anchastus
• Anilicus
• Aplastus
• Blauta Leconte, 1854
• Cebrio
• Dalopius
• Dicrepidius Eschscholtz in Thon, 1829
• Diplostethus Schwarz, 1907
• Dipropus Germar, 1839
• Dolerosomus
• Elater Linnaeus, 1758
• Glyphonyx Candèze, 1863
• Idolus
• Leptoschema Horn, 1885
• Megapenthes Kiesenwetter, 1858
• Melanotus Erichson, 1829
• Mulsanteus (brown wireworms)
• Odontonychus
• Orthostethus
• Parallelostethus
• Physorhinus
• Pomachilus
• Sericus
• Synaptus

References

1. Robin Kundrata, Nicole L. Gunter, Dominika Janosikova & Ladislav Bocak (2018) Molecular evidence for the subfamilial status of Tetralobinae (Coleoptera: Elateridae), with comments on parallel evolution of some phenotypic characters. Arthropod Systematics & Phylogeny 76: 137-145.

Further reading

• Arnett, R.H. Jr.; Thomas, M. C.; Skelley, P. E.; Frank, J. H., eds. (2002). American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, FL.
• Arnett, Ross H. (2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico. CRC Press.
• White, Richard E. (1983). Peterson Field Guides: Beetles. Houghton Mifflin Company.