Elateridae
TaxID: 30009
Basic Information
Elateridae
Click Beetle, Click Beetles, click beetles
Elateridae or click beetles (or "typical click beetles" to distinguish them from the related families Cerophytidae and Eucnemidae, which are also capable of clicking) are a family of beetles. Other names include elaters, snapping beetles, spring beetles or skipjacks. This family was defined by William Elford Leach (1790 C1836) in 1815. They are a cosmopolitan beetle family characterized by the unusual click mechanism they possess. There are a few other families of Elateroidea in which a few members have the same mechanism, but most elaterid subfamilies can click. A spine on the prosternum can be snapped into a corresponding notch on the mesosternum, producing a violent "click" that can bounce the beetle into the air. The evolutionary purpose of this click is debated: hypotheses include that the clicking noise deters predators or is used for communication, or that the click may allow the beetle to "pop" out of the substrate in which it is pupating. It is unlikely that the click is used for avoiding predators as it does not carry the beetle very far (<50 cm), and in practice click beetles usually play dead or flee normally. There are about 9300 known species worldwide, and 965 valid species in North America.
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Taxonomic Information
Eukaryota
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Elateridae
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Family
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Arthropods
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Morphological Features
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Host Plants (0 host plants)
Data sources: EPPO Global Database and relevant literature.
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Quarantine Status (1 records)
Data sources: IPPC website and national quarantine websites; verified by human review.
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| United States of America | Quarantine pests | — |
Distribution (0 countries)
Data Sources: EPPO Global Database and GBIF.
No distribution records available.
Genomes (0 records)
Data source: NCBI.
No genome records available.
Transcriptomes (3 records)
Data source: NCBI.
| Run ID | Tissue | Developmental Stage | Sex | Read Count | Location | Actions |
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| SRR35692994 | whole-body | - | - | 25060548 | Slovakia: Svrcinovec | |
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PRJNA1331533 SRX30742542 SRP630172 insect RNA-Seq of Anostirus purpureus Total RNA was isolated using Trizol, polyA selection, stranded library preparation and Illumina seqeuncing was done by Novogene company. Single adult specimen {'name': 'R20007', 'tissue': 'whole-body', 'isolate': 'Single adult specimen', 'geo_loc_name': 'Slovakia: Svrcinovec', 'biosamplemodel': 'Invertebrate', 'collection_date': '2020', 'isolation_source': 'wild specimen'} |
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| SRR35692990 | whole-body | - | - | 22798276 | Slovakia: Svrcinovec | |
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PRJNA1331533 SRX30742546 SRP630172 insect RNA-Seq of Agriotes sp. Total RNA was isolated using Trizol, polyA selection, stranded library preparation and Illumina seqeuncing was done by Novogene company. Single adult specimen {'name': 'R20008', 'tissue': 'whole-body', 'isolate': 'Single adult specimen', 'geo_loc_name': 'Slovakia: Svrcinovec', 'biosamplemodel': 'Invertebrate', 'collection_date': '2020', 'isolation_source': 'wild specimen'} |
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| SRR37113027 | whole organism | adult | not provided | 123493028 | Canada: Sunshine Farms, Kelowna, Okanagan Valley, British Columbia | |
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PRJNA1221255 SRX32058155 SRP567843 insect RNA-Seq analysis sequencing of Limonius infuscatus: adult whole organism tissue (CBP01811) RNA-Seq analysis of normal adult whole organism tissue (CBP01811) (library ID CBP01811_MURNALIB01), constructed from sample accession SAMN53857458 for study accession PRJNA1221255. DNA extractions were performed at McGill Genome Centre (Montreal, QC, Canada) using the RNeasy Kit (QIAGEN). Sequencing was performed at McGill Genome Centre (Montreal, QC, Canada) using the Illumina NovaSeq X. WesternFieldWireworm11 / CBP01811 {'sex': 'not provided', 'tolid': 'icLimInfu3', 'lab id': 'Ext608', 'tissue': 'whole organism', 'isolate': 'WesternFieldWireworm11 / CBP01811', 'lat_lon': '49.821326 N 119.4405 W', 'dev_stage': 'adult', 'mcgill id': 'CBP01811_MURNA01', 'store_cond': 'flash frozen tissue stored at -80C', 'common name': 'western field wireworm', 'sample_type': 'whole organism', 'collected_by': 'Wim van Herk, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC), Ottawa, Ontario, Canada', 'geo_loc_name': 'Canada: Sunshine Farms, Kelowna, Okanagan Valley, British Columbia', 'cbp sample id': 'CBP01811', 'identified by': 'Nicole Dziekciowski, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC), Ottawa, Ontario, Canada', 'biosamplemodel': 'Model organism or animal', 'collection_date': '2024-05-01', 'sampling method': 'sweep nets', 'cbp individual id': 'WesternFieldWireworm11', 'external sample id': 'L.infuscatus Kelowna | LI-02-K | LI-02-K', 'biomaterial_provider': 'Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC), Ottawa, Ontario, Canada'} |
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