Melanactes

Melanactes
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Clade:Euarthropoda
Class:Insecta
Order:Coleoptera
Family:Elateridae
Tribe:Oxynopterini
Genus:Melanactes
Leconte, 1854

Melanactes is a genus of click beetles in the family Elateridae. There are about five described species in Melanactes.[1][2][3]

Species

These five species belong to the genus Melanactes:

  • Melanactes consors LeConte, 1853 b
  • Melanactes densus LeConte, 1853 b
  • Melanactes morio (Fabricius, 1798) b
  • Melanactes piceus (DeGeer, 1774) b
  • Melanactes puncticollis (LeConte, 1852) b

Data sources: i = ITIS,[4] c = Catalogue of Life,[5] g = GBIF,[1] b = Bugguide.net[2]

References

  1. 1 2 "Melanactes". GBIF. Retrieved 2018-04-05.
  2. 1 2 "Melanactes Genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-04-05.
  3. ↑ "Melanactes Overview". Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved 2018-04-05.
  4. ↑ "ITIS, Integrated Taxonomic Information System". Retrieved 2018-04-05.
  5. ↑ "Catalogue of Life". Retrieved 2018-04-05.

Further reading

  • Arnett, R.H. Jr.; Thomas, M. C.; Skelley, P. E.; Frank, J. H., eds. (2002). American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press. ISBN 978-0849309540.
  • Blatchley, W.S. (1910). An illustrated descriptive catalogue of the Coleoptera, beetles (exclusive of the Rhynchophora) known to occur in Indiana. Nature Pub.
  • Bouchard, Patrice; Bousquet, Yves; Davies, Anthony E.; Alonso-Zarazaga, Miguel A.; et al. (2011). "Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta)". Zookeys. Pensoft Publishers. 88 (88). doi:10.3897/zookeys.88.807. ISSN 1313-2989.
  • LeConte, J.L. (1861). Classification of the Coleoptera of North America. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. 3. Smithsonian Institution. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.38459. ISBN 0665100558.
  • White, Richard E. (1998) [1983]. A Field Guide to the Beetles of North America (Peterson Field Guides). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN 0395910897.


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