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Elater
Taxonomy
Elater was named by Linnaeus (1758). It is extant. It is the type genus of Elateroidea, Elateridae, Elaterinae, Elaterides.
It was assigned to Coleoptera by Linnaeus (1758), Linnaeus (1761), Geoffroy (1762), Scopoli (1763), Müller (1764), Schaeffer (1766), Linnaeus (1767), Strøm (1768) and Latreille (1796); to Eleuterata by Fabricius (1775), Fabricius (1792) and Fabricius (1798); to Sternoxi by Latreille (1802); to Elaterinae by Yablokov-Khnzorian (1961); to Elateridae by Zhang (1989); and to Elaterini by Bouchard et al. (2011) and Kundrata et al. (2021).
It was assigned to Coleoptera by Linnaeus (1758), Linnaeus (1761), Geoffroy (1762), Scopoli (1763), Müller (1764), Schaeffer (1766), Linnaeus (1767), Strøm (1768) and Latreille (1796); to Eleuterata by Fabricius (1775), Fabricius (1792) and Fabricius (1798); to Sternoxi by Latreille (1802); to Elaterinae by Yablokov-Khnzorian (1961); to Elateridae by Zhang (1989); and to Elaterini by Bouchard et al. (2011) and Kundrata et al. (2021).
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1758 | Elater Linnaeus |
| 1761 | Elater Linnaeus p. 205 |
| 1762 | Elater Geoffroy p. 129 |
| 1763 | Elater Scopoli p. 91 |
| 1764 | Elater Müller p. 16 |
| 1766 | Elater Schaeffer |
| 1767 | Elater Linnaeus p. 651 |
| 1768 | Elater Strøm p. 326 |
| 1775 | Elater Fabricius p. 210 |
| 1792 | Elater Fabricius p. 216 |
| 1796 | Elater Latreille p. 42 |
| 1798 | Elater Fabricius p. 138 |
| 1802 | Elater Latreille p. 100 |
| 1827 | Ludius Berthold p. 336 |
| 1961 | Elater Yablokov-Khnzorian p. 88 |
| 1989 | Elater Zhang p. 122 |
| 2011 | Elater Bouchard et al. |
| 2021 | Elater Kundrata et al. p. 30 |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
G. Elater Linnaeus 1758
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†Elater asmodeus Zhang 1989
†Elater berryi Wickham 1929
†Elater burmitinus Cockerell 1917
†Elater canabinus Zhang 1989
†Elater florissantensis Wickham 1916
†Elater mitrus Zhang 1989
†Elater naumanni Giebel 1856
†Elater rohweri Wickham 1916
†Elater scudderi Wickham 1916
†Elater wallesii Hope 1837
†Elater wisniowskii Łomnicki 1902
Invalid names: Ludius Berthold 1827 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available