Insecta - Coleoptera - Elateridae
Synonym: Cebrionidae Latreille 1802 [replaced name]
Full reference: W. E. Leach. 1815. Entomology. The Edinburgh Encyclopaedia 9:57-172
Parent taxon: Elateroidea according to R. Kundrata et al. 2023
See also Bouchard et al. 2011, Cai et al. 2022, Crowson 1981, Dolin 1973, Dong et al. 2011, Lawrence and Newton 1995, Muona et al. 2020, Otto 2019, Tillyard 1918, Triskova et al. 2022 and Webster 2016
Sister taxa: Anoeuma, Artematopodidae, Berendtimiridae, Brachypsectridae, Cantharidae, Cerophytidae, Cretophengodidae, Eucnemidae, Eudicronychinae, Grammocolous, Lampyridae, Lycidae, Microcoleus, Mysteriomorphidae, Omethidae, Phengodidae, Rhagophthalmidae, Throscidae
Subtaxa: Acmaeodera burmitina Adocetus Agrypninae Artinama Bilineariselater Cardiophorinae Cebrioninae Cretocardiophorus Cretoelaterium Cryptagriotes Cryptocoelus Dendrometrinae Denticollinae Elater maculatus Elateridium Elaterinae Elaterites Elaterium Gripecolous Hemiopinae Hypnoidinae Lissominae Ludiophanes Mercata Mionelater Negastriinae Omalisinae Ovivagina Paralithomerus Physodactylinae Pityobiinae Protagrypninae Protocardiophorus Pseudocardiophorites Silicernius Sinoelaterium Spheniscosomus Subprotelaterinae Tetralobinae Tetraraphes Thylacosterninae Turonelater
Type: Elater
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