Elateroidea, Leach, 1815

Peck, Stewart B., 2016, The beetles of the Lesser Antilles (Insecta, Coleoptera): diversity and distributions, Insecta Mundi 2016 (460), pp. 1-360 : 103

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.5182961

publication LSID

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scientific name

Elateroidea
status

 

Superfamily Elateroidea View in CoL View at ENA

67. FAMILY EUCNEMIDAE , the false click beetles

The adults are not often found but may come to lights. Larvae bore in dead wood and may feed on slime molds or fungal decay products. Muona (2000) is a revision of the Nearctic species with keys to most genera which may be expected in the Lesser Antilles.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

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