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The family Elateridae, known as Click Beetles (or “Typical Click Beetles” to distinguish them from the related families Cerophytidae and Eucnemidae). The Elateridae are a cosmopolitan beetle family characterized by the unusual click mechanism they make (that often bounces the beetle into the air). Whilst this clicking is used to avoid predation, it is also enables the beetle to right itself, when it is on its back. Click Beetles are found throughout Australia. There are some 9,300 species that are known worldwide.1
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- Scientific classification
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Subphylum: Hexapoda
- Class: Insecta
- Informal: Pterygotes
- Order: Coleoptera
- Suborder: Polyphaga
- Superfamily: Elateroidea
- Family: Elateridae
Footnote & References
- Many thanks to Kimberi Pullen for ID, member of Australasian Beetles Only, https://www.facebook.com/groups/1180404322409639/
- ELATERIDAE Leach, 1815, Blacksmith, Atlas of Living Australia, https://bie.ala.org.au/species/ELATERIDAE
- Click Beetles (Family Elateridae), iNaturalistAU, https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/taxa/53248-Elateridae
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