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Click Beetle Portrait of a Click Beetle Coleoptera Elateridae Australia,Beetles,Click Beetle,Geotagged,Insects Click/tap to enlarge

Click Beetle

Portrait of a Click Beetle Coleoptera Elateridae

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  1. View Ferdy Christant's profile
    Ferdy Christant
    Lion
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    I see you requested a species "Coleoptera Elateridae". Sorry, that is not specific enough, as this concerns a family of species, not any single species. Great photo though! Posted 10 years ago
  2. View Ferdy Christant's profile
    Ferdy Christant
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    Thanks for the 2nd request, I'm still having issues though: "Athoinae Athioni Athous" does not exist in eol.org (which is a bad sign, as they know virtually every species known to science), can't find anything about it online anywhere else either. Do you have a link from where you found that name? Or perhaps check the spelling? Posted 10 years ago
    1. View RDodd's profile
      RDodd
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      It could be Sydney click beetle (Hairy Click Beetle) - coleoptera elateridae elateroidea hiddenantennae. The only other reference is from the Australian Museum web site and it has the following references
      Genus:Conoderus Subfamily:Agrypninae Family:Elateridae Superfamily:Elateroidea Order:Coleoptera Class:Insecta Subphylum:Uniramia Phylum:Arthopoda Kingdom:Animalia - See more at: http://australianmuseum.net.au/click-beetles#sthash.8yNghxz9.dpuf       Posted 10 years ago
  4. View WildFlower's profile
    WildFlower
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    Athous haemorrhoidalis is a species of European and Asian click beetle. There are also several American species of Athous, but I couldn't find an Australian species. Which reference did you use?
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athous_haemorrhoidalis
    http://bugguide.net/node/view/110874/bgpage     Posted 10 years ago
    1. View RDodd's profile
      RDodd
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      It could be Sydney click beetle (Hairy Click Beetle) - coleoptera elateridae elateroidea hiddenantennae. The only other reference is from the Australian Museum web site and it has the following references
      Genus:Conoderus Subfamily:Agrypninae Family:Elateridae Superfamily:Elateroidea Order:Coleoptera Class:Insecta Subphylum:Uniramia Phylum:Arthopoda Kingdom:Animalia - See more at: http://australianmuseum.net.au/click-beetles#sthash.8yNghxz9.dpuf       Posted 10 years ago
      1. View WildFlower's profile
        WildFlower
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        Sydney click beetle is not a specific species name. Hairy Click Beetle is the common name for Synaptus filiformis which is a European species. To create a species ID, we need a species, a genus is not enough. I found I couple of Australian species from the genus Conoderus, but the antennae are not the same as this guy has, neither is the one on the reference you suggest.
        http://www.ento.csiro.au/education/insects/coleoptera_families/elateridae.html
        http://www.padil.gov.au/maf-border/pest/main/140344/40808
        http://australianmuseum.net.au/image/click-beetle-specimen         Posted 10 years ago

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Uploaded Apr 3, 2015. Captured in 1A Pinnacle Street, Miranda NSW 2228, Australia.
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