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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   
       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:  
                                              GenusAeolus   
                                              GenusAgriotes   
                                              GenusAlaus   
                                              GenusAnchastus   
                                              GenusBrachylacon   
                                              GenusCardiophorus   
                                              GenusChalcolepidus   
                                              GenusConoderus   
                                              GenusCtenicera   
                                              GenusDacnitus   
                                              GenusDrasterius   
                                              GenusEopenthes   
                                              GenusHoristonotus   
                                              GenusHypolithus   
                                              GenusItodacne   
                                              GenusLacon   
                                              GenusLimonius   
                                              GenusMelanotus   
                                              GenusMelanoxanthus   
                                              GenusProdrasterius   
                                              GenusPyrophorus   
                                              GenusSimodactylus   
                                              SubfamilyAgrypninae Candèze, 1857  
                                              SubfamilyCardiophorinae Candèze, 1859  
                                              SubfamilyCebrioninae Latreille, 1802  
                                              SubfamilyDenticollinae Stein and Weise, 1877  
                                              SubfamilyDiminae Candèze, 1863  
                                              SubfamilyElaterinae Leach, 1815  
                                              SubfamilyHemiopinae Fleutiaux, 1941  
                                              SubfamilyLissominae Laporte, 1835  
                                              SubfamilyNegastriinae Nakane and Kishii, 1956  
                                              SubfamilyOxynopterinae Candèze, 1857  
                                              SubfamilyPhysodactylinae Lacordaire, 1857  
                                              SubfamilyPityobiinae Hyslop, 1917  
                                              SubfamilySemiotinae Jacobson, 1913  
                                              SubfamilyTetralobinae Laporte, 1840  
                                              SubfamilyThylacosterninae Fleutiaux, 1920  
       
                                            FamilyElateridae Leach, 1815 incertae sedis  
    Children with Uncertain Position:  
                                              SubfamilyAnischiinae Fleutiaux, 1936  
                                              SubfamilyEudicronychinae Girard, 1971  
                                              SubfamilySubprotelaterinae 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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