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Elateridae (click beetles)

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The click beetles (Elate­ridae) are a cosmo­politan beetle family characterized by their click mechanism, which is used to avoid predation or to right itself if lying on the back. This is done through a spine on the prosternum, which can be snapped in a corresponding notch on the mesosternum. Worldwide about 10000 species are known, thereof 150 in Germany. The adults mostly feed on leafs and flowers, whereas the larvae partially feed on plant roots (wireworms), where they can cause damage. Others are carnivorous and prey on larvae of other insects.

World: 10,000 Europe: 670 Germany: 150 collected: 88 Missing species Overview in inquiry module fraction: 59%
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Missing species Elateridae (click beetles) – currently missing species (63)
 Ampedus forticornis
 Ampedus bouweri
 Ampedus praeustus
 Ampedus brunnicornis
 Ampedus ziegleri
 Ampedus rugosus
 Ampedus nemoralis
 Ampedus hjorti
 Ampedus quercicola
 Ampedus triangulum
 Ampedus melanurus
 Ampedus vandalitiae
 Ampedus francolinus
 Ampedus auripes
 Ampedus impressicollis
 Brachygonus dubius
 Brachygonus ruficeps
 Podeonius acuticornis
 Elater ferrugineus
 Sericus subaeneus
 Agriotes brevis
 Betarmon bisbimaculatus
 Idolus picipennis
 Adrastus limbatus
 Adrastus lacertosus
 Adrastus montanus
 Melanotus castanipes
 Melanotus crassicollis
 Drasterius bimaculatus
 Lacon punctatus
 Lacon lepidopterus
 Danosoma fasciatus
 Orithales serraticornis
 Ctenicera virens
 Ctenicera heyeri
 Liotrichus affinis
 Anostirus gracilicollis
 Anostirus sulphuripennis
 Haplotarsus angustulus
 Metanomus infuscatus
 Selatosomus melancholicus
 Selatosomus rugosus
 Neopristilophus depressus
 Mosotalesus impressus
 Pseudanostirus globicollis
 Denticollis borealis
 Limonius poneli
 Stenagostus rufus
 Crepidophorus mutilatus
 Athous zebei
 Athous campyloides
 Hypnoidus rivularius
 Fleutiauxillus maritimus
 Negastrius pulchellus
 Negastrius arenicola
 Zorochros minimus
 Zorochros flavipes
 Quasimus minutissimus
 Cardiophorus gramineus
 Cardiophorus discicollis
 Cardiophorus rufipes
 Dicronychus rubripes
 Dicronychus equiseti
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