Limonius
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| Limonius Temporal range:
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| Limonius auripilis | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Family: | Elateridae |
| Subfamily: | Dendrometrinae |
| Genus: | Limonius Eschscholtz, 1829 |
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Micrathous Lane, 1971 | |
Limonius is a genus of click beetles in the family Elateridae. Many of the species formerly placed in this genus have been removed to other genera such as Gambrinus.[1]
Species
[edit]- Limonius aeger LeConte, 1853
- Limonius agonus (Say) (eastern field wireworm)
- Limonius anceps LeConte, 1853
- Limonius aurifer LeConte, 1853
- Limonius auripilis (Say, 1823)
- Limonius basilaris
- Limonius californicus (Mannerheim) (sugarbeet wireworm)
- Limonius canus Leconte (Pacific coast wireworm)
- Limonius consimilis
- Limonius ectypus (Say, 1839)
- †Limonius impunctus Scudder, 1895 (Ypresian, Allenby Formation)[2]
- Limonius infuscatus Motschulsky
- Limonius jonesi Lane, 1965
- Limonius lanei Van Dyke, 1932
- Limonius meridianus Knull, 1947
- Limonius nitidulus Horn, 1871
- Limonius pectoralis LeConte, 1866
- Limonius quercinus (Say, 1825)
- Limonius subauratus Leconte (Columbia basin wireworm)
References
[edit]- ^ F.E. Etzler. 2019. Generic reclassification of Limonius Eschscholtz, 1829 (Elateridae: Dendrometrinae) sensu Candèze 1860 of the world. Zootaxa 4863:301-335.
- ^ Scudder, S. H (1895). "Canadian fossil insects, myriapods and arachnids, Vol II. The Coleoptera hitherto found fossil in Canada". Geological Survey of Canada Contributions to Canadian Palaeontology. 2: 5–26.
Further reading
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- Arnett, R. H. Jr.; Thomas, M. C.; Skelley, P. E.; Frank, J. H., eds. (21 June 2002). American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, Florida.
- Arnett, Ross H. (2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico. CRC Press.
- White, Richard E. (1983). Peterson Field Guides: Beetles. Houghton Mifflin Company.
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