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Megathous

Megathous is a genus of click beetles in the family, Elateridae. It was originally established by Edmund Reitter as a subgenus of the genus Harminius Fairmaire, 1851. There are more than 10 described species in Megathous, found in the Palearctic.

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Megathous
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Polyphaga
Infraorder: Elateriformia
Family: Elateridae
Subfamily: Dendrometrinae
Tribe: Dendrometrini
Genus: Megathous
Reitter, 1905
Synonyms
  • Harmiathous Ôhira, 1993
  • Harminathous Kishii, 1955
  • Mehathous Cobos, 1969

Megathous is a genus of click beetles in the family, Elateridae. It was originally established by Edmund Reitter as a subgenus of the genus Harminius Fairmaire, 1851.1 There are more than 10 described species in Megathous, found in the Palearctic.23

Species

These species belong to the genus Megathous:4

  • Megathous algirinus (Candèze, 1860)
  • Megathous altaicus (Schwarz, 1900)
  • Megathous barrosi (Méquignon, 1932)
  • Megathous escalerai (Cobos, 1958)
  • Megathous ficcuzzensis (Buysson, 1912)
  • Megathous fiorii Platia & Marini, 1990
  • Megathous hispanicus Platia & Gudenzi, 2005
  • Megathous lizlerwerneri Mertlik, 2005
  • Megathous menetriesi (Reitter, 1890)
  • Megathous peyerimhoffi Buysson, 1917
  • Megathous pici (Buysson, 1898)
  • Megathous rifensis (Cobos, 1969)
  • Megathous sedakovii (Mannerheim, 1852)
  • Megathous suturalis (Candèze, 1873)
  • Megathous valtopinensis Platia & Gudenzi, 2005

Excluded species

The following 3 species were transferred to the genus Hemicrepidius by Frank E. Etzler in 2020.5

  • Hemicrepidius dauricus (Mannerheim, 1852) (syn. Megathous dauricus (Mannerheim, 1852))
  • Hemicrepidius jacobsoni (Reitter, 1905) (syn. Megathous jacobsoni (Reitter, 1905))
  • Hemicrepidius nigerrimus (Desbrochers des Loges, 1869) (syn. Megathous nigerrimus (Desbrochers des Loges, 1869))
References

References

  1. Reitter, E. (1905). "Bestimmungs-Tabelle der europaichen Coleopteren lvi. Elateridae, 1 Theil Elaterini, Subtribus Athouina, aus der palaearctischen Fauna. Mit einer Uebersicht der Familiengruppe der Sternoxia und der Gattungen der Elateridae". Verhandlungen des Naturforschenden Vereins in Brünn (in German). 43: 25 & 27 of 1–122.
  2. "GBIF, Megathous". Retrieved 2024-10-14.
  3. Biolib
  4. "IRMNG taxon details, Megathous Reitter, 1905". Retrieved 2024-10-14.
  5. Etzler, F.E. (2020). "A Revision of the Genus Hemicrepidius Germar, 1839 (Coleoptera: Elateridae) of the New World, with Comments on Global Classification". The Coleopterists Bulletin. 74 (mo18): 1–126. doi:10.1649/0010-065X-74.mo18.1.
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