Elathous
Reitter, 1890
Species Guides
4Elathous is a of click beetles ( Elateridae) comprising 48 described . The genus exhibits a disjunct distribution: seven species occur in the , 39 in the West Palearctic from Morocco to Iran, and two in Japan. The genus was established by Reitter in 1890 and is classified in the Dendrometrinae.
Pronunciation
How to pronounce Elathous: /ɛˈlæθ.oʊs/
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Distribution
(7 ); West Palearctic from Morocco to Iran (39 species); Japan (2 species). Records include the central Zagros Mountains of western Iran, Talassemtane National Park in Morocco, and provinces of Denizli and Isparta in Turkey.
Sources and further reading
- BugGuide
- GBIF taxonomy match
- iNaturalist taxon
- NCBI Taxonomy
- A new species of Elathous Reitter (Coleoptera: Elateridae) from Turkey
- Comparative morphology of larvae of Elathous agilis Németh, 2019 and Elathous brucki (Candèze, 1878) (Coleoptera: Elateridae: Dendrometrinae), with notes on their biology and ecology
- Annotated catalogue of the click-beetle genus Elathous Reitter, 1890 (Coleoptera: Elateridae: Dendrometrinae), including habitus photographs for all species
- Click beetles from the Talassemtane National Park, Morocco, with descrip tion of a new species of Elathous and with new distributional data (Coleoptera: Elateridae)
- Three new species, Elathous zagrosensis sp. n., Zorochros dilatatus sp. n., and Dicronychus iranicus sp. n., and noteworthy records of click beetles from western Iran (Coleoptera: Elateridae)