CHECKLIST OF THE ALBERTA ELATERIDAE (click beetles)
[Classification after Bousquet, 1991]
E.R. Fuller, April, 2002
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SUBFAMILY Pyrophorinae
Tribe Pyrophorini
Lacon Castelnau
auroratus (Say)
Danosoma Thomson
brevicornis (LeConte)
obtecta (Say)
Drasterius Eschscholtz
debilis LeConte
Aeolus Eschscholtz
mellillus (Say) [including forms/subspecies comis (LeConte) and marginicollis (Horn)]
Conoderus Eschscholtz
auritus (Herbst)
Tribe Pityobini
Pityobius LeConte
anguinus LeConte
Tribe Athoini
Limonius Eschscholtz
sp. A (Brooks, 1960)
aeger LeConte
californicus (Mannerheim)
canus LeConte
infuscatus Motschulsky
lanei Van Dyke
lecontei Lane
nitidulus Horn
pectoralis LeConte
rufihumeralis Lane
ursinus Van Dyke
Athous Eschscholtz
nigropilis Motschulsky
productus (Randall)
rufiventris (Eschscholtz)
Harminius Fairmaire
triundulatus (Mannerheim)
Denticollis Piller & Mitterpacher
denticornis (Kirby)
Ligmargus Stibick
funebris (Candeze)
Ascoliocerus Mequignon
sanborni (Horn)
Margaiostus Stibick
glacialis (Van Dyke)
Hypnoidus Dillwyn
abbreviatus (Say)
bicolor (Eschscholtz)
impressicollis (Mannerheim)
leei Stibick, 1968
nocturnus (Eschscholtz)?
rivularis (Gyllenhal)
squalidus (LeConte)
Oedostethus LeConte
femoralis LeConte
Negastrius Thomson
arnetti Stibick, 1990
dubius (Horn)
gentilis (LeConte)
manki (Fall)
obliquatulus (Melsheimer)
striatulus (LeConte)
tumescens (LeConte)
Ctenicera Latreille
sp. A (Brooks, 1960)
aeripennis (Kirby) [including destructor Brown]
arata (LeConte)
bipunctata (Brown)
bombycina (Germar)
callida (Brown)
columbiana (Brown) [propola columbiana]
consors (Brown) [nomen nudum? Sp. A of Brooks, 1960?]
crestonensis (Brown)
cruciata (Linnaeus) [pulchra (Leconte)]
glauca (Germar)
hoppingi (Van Dyke)
kendalli (Kirby)
laricis (Brown)
limoniiformis (Horn)
lutescens (Fall)
mediana (Germar)
mendax (LeConte)
montana (Brown)
morula (LeConte)
nebraskensis (Bland)
nigricollis (Bland)
nitidula (LeConte)
ochreipennis (LeConte)
propola (LeConte)
pudica (Brown)
pygmaea (Van Dyke)
resplendens (Eschscholtz) [including ssp. aeraria (Randall?)
semimetallica (Walker)
sexualis (Brown)
silvatica (Van Dyke)
splendens (Zeigler)
stricklandi (Brown)
triundulata (Randall)
umbricola (Eschscholtz)
umbripennis (LeConte)
vidua (Brown)
Oxygonus LeConte
obesus (Say)
Eanus LeConte
albertanus Brown
decoratus (Mannerheim)
estriatus (LeConte)
Hemicrepidius Germar
sp. A (Brooks, 1960)
carbonatus LeConte
memnonius (Herbst)
simplex (LeConte)
Tribe Oestodini
Oestodes LeConte
puncticollis Horn
SUBFAMILY Elaterinae
Tribe Elaterini
Sericus Eschscholtz
incongruus (LeConte)
Tribe Agriotini
Agriotes Eschscholtz
criddlei Van Dyke
ferrugineipennis (LeConte)
fucosus (LeConte)
limosus (LeConte)
mancus (Say)?
opaculus (LeConte)
tardus Brown
Agriotella Brown
occidentalis Brown
Dalopius Eschscholtz
asellus Brown
fucatus Brown
gartrelli Brown
inordinatus Brown
insolens Brown
mirabilis Brown
pallidus Brown
Tribe Ampedini
Ampedus Dejean
apicatus (Say)
brevis (Van Dyke)
deletus (LeConte)
evansi Brown
fusculus (LeConte)
laurentinus Brown
luctuosus (LeConte)
miniipennis (LeConte)
mixtus (Herbst)
moerens (LeConte)
nigricans Germar
nigrinus (Herbst)
oblessus (Say)
occidentalis Lane
pedalis Germar
phelpsi (Horn)
pullus Germar
quebecensis Brown
sellatus Germar
subtilis (LeConte)?
uteanus (Van Dyke)
varipilis (Van Dyke)
Megapenthes Kiesenwetter
stigmosus (LeConte)
Tribe Physorhinini
Anchastus LeConte
cinereipennis (Eschscholtz)
SUBFAMILY Cardiophorinae
Cardiophorus Eschscholtz
acutus Lanchester
brunnipennis Lanchester
cardisce (Say)
fenestratus LeConte
kooskooskiensis Lanchester
montanus Blanchard
pratensus Lanchester
pubescens Blanchard
silvanus Lanchester
sodalis Lanchester
tenebrosus LeConte
tumidicollis LeConte
tutus Lanchester
Bousquet, Y., 1991. Family
Elateridae click beetles, pp. 175-185. In Y. Bousquet,
Ed., Checklist of Beetles of Canada and Alaska. Research Branch,
Agriculture Canada Publication 1861/E. 430 pp.
Brooks, A.R., 1960. Adult
Elateridae of southern Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba
(Coleoptera). Canadian Entomologist, suppl. 20 (vol. 92). 63 pp.