Chestnut-footed Click Beetle

Melanotus castanipes

Classification

Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Elateridae

Melanotus castanipes is a species of click beetle in the family Elateridae. Description Length varies from 13 to 19 mm. It is uniformly black, or with slightly browner head with an elongated body and tapering elytra.

Distribution

Chestnut-footed Click Beetle — (c) Owen Strickland, some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by Owen Strickland · CC-BY

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Countries in the Picchu catalog

France · 223Switzerland · 130United Kingdom · 96Germany · 16Belgium · 1Italy · 1

Sources and credits

Photo(c) Owen Strickland, some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by Owen Strickland · CC-BY DescriptionMelanotus castanipes, Wikipedia contributors

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