Agriotes sputator

TaxID: 346689

Basic Information

Agriotes sputator

Gråbrun sædsmælder, Spitting Click Beetle

Agriotes sputator, commonly known as the spitting click beetle (sputator = spitter in Latin) or the common click beetle, is a species from the family Elateridae, mainly found in Europe. Its distribution range extends to parts of Western Asia like Turkey, Syria and Iran, as well as to China in the east. It has been also recorded in parts of north-western Africa. Further, it was accidentally introduced into eastern Canada. Its natural habitat is grassland, where the larvae (wireworms) live in the soil, feeding mainly on the roots of grasses and various other plants. Crop fields are often invaded and A. sputator is regarded as a serious agricultural pest. Management relies mainly on the use of pesticides and cultural control methods, but the use of biological control agents is also being explored. The adult beetle is between 6 and 9 mm (0.24 and 0.35 in) long and has a variable coloration. Typically, it is dark brown to black, with the antennae and legs usually being reddish brown. The elytra are also often brownish.

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Taxonomic Information

Metazoa

Arthropoda

Insecta

Coleoptera

Elateridae

Agriotes

sputator

unclassified

Photos (0 photos)

No photos available.

Morphological Features

No morphological description available.

Host Plants (1 host plants)

Data sources: EPPO Global Database and relevant literature.

Scientific Name Status
Poaceae Host

Quarantine Status (3 records)

Data sources: IPPC website and national quarantine websites; verified by human review.

Country Status Year Added
Ecuador Quarantine pests —
Moldova Quarantine pests —
United States of America Quarantine pest 1994

Distribution (30 countries)

Data Sources: EPPO Global Database and GBIF.

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Present
0
Absent
0
Unknown/Other
Country Status State
Austria Present —
Azerbaijan Present —
Belgium Present —
Bosnia and Herzegovina Present —
Belarus Present —
Canada Present
Switzerland Present —
Czechia Present —
Germany Present —
Denmark Present —
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Distribution Map (Latitude and longitude coordinates sourced from GBIF.)

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Genomes (2 records)

Data source: NCBI.

Assembly Accession Assembly Level Genome Size(Mb) Contig N50(Kb) Scaffold N50(Kb) BUSCO% Downloads Actions
GCA_044115325.2 Scaffold 1922 16345 1243888 -
GCA_044115275.2 Scaffold 1056 11899 90494 -

Transcriptomes (1 records)

Data source: NCBI.

Run ID Tissue Developmental Stage Sex Read Count Location Actions
SRR33130670 head adult not provided 123774461 Canada: Cerom, Quebec

DNA Barcodes (0 records)

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Data source: BOLD.

No DNA barcode records available.

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