Elateridae

Wireworms (Elateridae): Shiny, brown, hard larvae up to 1.5 -

Chapter 10 1981

Mesosternal cavity: in Elateridae, the opening into which the prosternal spine or mucro is fitted.

Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith

Mucro: a long, straight or curved process terminating in a point: the pro-sternal process in Elateridae: the terminal spine or process of an obtect pupa: "the median posterior point of the epigastrium when differentiated by elevation."

Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith

Manubrium: in Coleoptera: that part of the mesosternum in Elateridae which forms the process for fitting into the cavity of the prothorax: in

Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith

(Elateridae) -- that eat the roots of farm crops, have well-armoured bodies, but their shape is elongate, cylindrical, worm-like; and their legs are relatively short, the build of the insect being adapted for rapid motion through the soil.

The Life-Story of Insects 1902

Some other groups of beetles, as the Elateridae and Eucnemidae, also deceptively mimic malacoderms.

Darwinism (1889) Alfred Russel Wallace 1868

In Coleoptera I made large collections, but the extensive families of the Elateridae, Lamellicorns, and others are still uncatalogued, and very many species remain to be described.

The Naturalist in Nicaragua Thomas Belt 1855

I believe that if all extinct insect-forms could be collected, we should have gradations from the Elateridae, with their highly and constantly luminous thoraxes, and from the Lampyridae, with their highly luminous abdomens, to some ancient insects occasionally luminous like the centipede.

More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 Charles Darwin 1845

Wireworms are the subterranean larval stage of click beetles (Coleoptera: Elateridae).

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Sekuliæ R. MONITORING OF WIREWORMS (Coleoptera: Elateridae) DENSITY - A BASIS FOR RATIONAL INSECTICIDES USE

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