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Cerophytidae
Rare Click Beetles
Cerophytidae is a small family of elateroid beetles commonly known as rare click beetles. The family contains approximately 23 extant species distributed across five genera, with the majority of diversity concentrated in the Neotropics. Adults possess a clicking mechanism convergent with Elateridae, though they are less specialized for jumping and better adapted for rapid walking and flight. The family has a significant fossil record extending to the Early Jurassic, with 17 fossil species in seven genera documented.
Dromaeolus californicus
Dromaeolus californicus is a species of false click beetle in the family Eucnemidae, described by Bonvouloir in 1875. The species is known from western North America, with distribution records from British Columbia, Canada. Like other members of the family Eucnemidae, it belongs to the elateroid beetles and is characterized by the inability to produce the clicking sound typical of true click beetles (Elateridae). The genus Dromaeolus is part of a group of eucnemids often associated with decaying wood and forest habitats.
Euryptychus ulkei
Euryptychus ulkei is a species of false click beetle in the family Eucnemidae. Very little published information exists about this species. The genus Euryptychus comprises small to medium-sized eucnemids, and species in this family are typically associated with dead or decaying wood where larvae develop as saproxylic feeders. Adults are generally collected by beating vegetation or attracted to light.
Matheteus
Matheteus is a monotypic genus of beetles in the family Omethidae, established by John Lawrence LeConte in 1874. The genus contains a single described species, M. theveneti. Omethidae is a small family of elateroid beetles, commonly referred to as false soldier beetles. Members of this family are generally poorly studied, with limited ecological and biological information available.