Elateridae

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.