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Elateridae  Leach, 1815
Taxonomic Serial No.: 113879

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 Taxonomy and Nomenclature
       
  Kingdom: Animalia  
  Taxonomic Rank: Family  
  Synonym(s):    
  Common Name(s): click beetles [English]
  
       
  Taxonomic Status:    
  Current Standing: valid  
       
  Data Quality Indicators:    
  Record Credibility Rating: verified - standards met  
  Global Species Completeness: partial   
  Latest Record Review: 2005   
       

 Taxonomic Hierarchy
       
 KingdomAnimalia  – Animal, animaux, animals  
    SubkingdomBilateria  – triploblasts  
       InfrakingdomProtostomia   
          SuperphylumEcdysozoa   
             PhylumArthropoda  – Artrópode, arthropodes, arthropods  
                SubphylumHexapoda  – hexapods  
                   ClassInsecta  – insects, hexapoda, inseto, insectes  
                      SubclassPterygota  – insects ailés, winged insects  
                         InfraclassNeoptera  – modern, wing-folding insects  
                            SuperorderHolometabola   
                               OrderColeoptera Linnaeus, 1758 – beetles, coléoptères, besouro  
                                  SuborderPolyphaga Emery, 1886  
                                     InfraorderElateriformia Crowson, 1960  
                                        SuperfamilyElateroidea Leach, 1815  
                                           FamilyElateridae Leach, 1815 – click beetles  
    Direct Children:  
                                              Genus Aeolus   
                                              Genus Agriotes   
                                              Genus Alaus   
                                              Genus Anchastus   
                                              Genus Brachylacon   
                                              Genus Cardiophorus   
                                              Genus Chalcolepidus   
                                              Genus Conoderus   
                                              Genus Ctenicera   
                                              Genus Dacnitus   
                                              Genus Drasterius   
                                              Genus Eopenthes   
                                              Genus Horistonotus   
                                              Genus Hypolithus   
                                              Genus Itodacne   
                                              Genus Lacon   
                                              Genus Limonius   
                                              Genus Melanotus   
                                              Genus Melanoxanthus   
                                              Genus Prodrasterius   
                                              Genus Pyrophorus   
                                              Genus Simodactylus   
                                              Subfamily Agrypninae Candèze, 1857  
                                              Subfamily Cardiophorinae Candèze, 1859  
                                              Subfamily Cebrioninae Latreille, 1802  
                                              Subfamily Denticollinae Stein and Weise, 1877  
                                              Subfamily Diminae Candèze, 1863  
                                              Subfamily Elaterinae Leach, 1815  
                                              Subfamily Hemiopinae Fleutiaux, 1941  
                                              Subfamily Lissominae Laporte, 1835  
                                              Subfamily Negastriinae Nakane and Kishii, 1956  
                                              Subfamily Oxynopterinae Candèze, 1857  
                                              Subfamily Physodactylinae Lacordaire, 1857  
                                              Subfamily Pityobiinae Hyslop, 1917  
                                              Subfamily Semiotinae Jacobson, 1913  
                                              Subfamily Tetralobinae Laporte, 1840  
                                              Subfamily Thylacosterninae Fleutiaux, 1920  
       
                                            FamilyElateridae Leach, 1815 incertae sedis  
    Children with Uncertain Position:  
                                              Subfamily Anischiinae Fleutiaux, 1936  
                                              Subfamily Eudicronychinae Girard, 1971  
                                              Subfamily Subprotelaterinae Fleutiaux, 1920  
       

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  Source: NODC Taxonomic Code, database (version 8.0)  
  Acquired: 1996   
  Notes:    
  Reference for: Elateridae, click beetles [English]   
       
  Publication(s):    
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Lawrence, J. F., and A. F. Newton, Jr. / Pakaluk, James, and Stanislaw Adam Slipinski, eds.  
  Publication Date: 1995   
  Article/Chapter Title: Families and subfamilies of Coleoptera (with selected genera, notes, references and data on family-group names)   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Biology, Phylogeny, and Classification of Coleoptera: Papers Celebrating the 80th Birthday of Roy A. Crowson, vol. 2   
  Page(s): 779-1006   
  Publisher: Muzeum i Instytut Zoologii PAN   
  Publication Place: Warszawa, Poland   
  ISBN/ISSN: 83-85192-34-4   
  Notes:    
  Reference for: Elateridae   
       

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