Cebrio gigas

Cebrio gigas is a species of beetle of the subfamily Cebrioninae from a family of click beetles. Extended in Europe (in the south France, north-east of Spain, in some places in the continental Italy and Sicily).[1]

Cebrio gigas
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Coleoptera
Family:
Elateridae
Genus:
Cebrio
Species:
C. gigas
Binomial name
Cebrio gigas
(Fabricius, 1787)
Synonyms
  • Cistela gigas Fabricius, 1787
  • Cebrio longicornis Olivier, 1790
  • Cebrio latreillei Leach, 1824
  • Cebrio promelus Leach, 1824

Head, and prothorax black with blue shiny sheen. Antenna long 11-segmented, with short erect hairs. Head, pronotum, and elytron are covered with light surrounding hairs. Posterior angles of pronotum drawn out into long, brownish tongue. Elytra brown. Legs and feet are black; leg pale yellow.[2]

References
  1. "Cebrio gigas (Fabricius, 1787)". 2.6.2. Fauna Europaea. August 29, 2013. Retrieved October 14, 2013.
  2. "Cebrio gigas". Flickr. 2009-08-26. Retrieved February 3, 2012.


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