Melanactes

Melanactes is a genus of click beetles in the family Elateridae. There are about five described species in Melanactes.[1][2][3]

Melanactes
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Family:	Elateridae
Tribe:	Oxynopterini
Genus:	Melanactes Leconte, 1854

Species

These five species belong to the genus Melanactes:

• Melanactes consors LeConte, 1853 ^b
• Melanactes densus LeConte, 1853 ^b
• Melanactes morio (Fabricius, 1798) ^b
• Melanactes piceus (DeGeer, 1774) ^b
• Melanactes puncticollis (LeConte, 1852) ^b

Data sources: i = ITIS,[4] c = Catalogue of Life,[5] g = GBIF,[1] b = Bugguide.net[2]

References

1. "Melanactes". GBIF. Retrieved 2018-04-05.
2. "Melanactes Genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-04-05.
3. "Melanactes Overview". Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved 2018-04-05.
4. "ITIS, Integrated Taxonomic Information System". Retrieved 2018-04-05.
5. "Catalogue of Life". Retrieved 2018-04-05.

Further reading

• Arnett, R.H. Jr.; Thomas, M. C.; Skelley, P. E.; Frank, J. H., eds. (2002). American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press. ISBN 978-0849309540.
• Blatchley, W.S. (1910). An illustrated descriptive catalogue of the Coleoptera, beetles (exclusive of the Rhynchophora) known to occur in Indiana. Nature Pub.
• Bouchard, Patrice; Bousquet, Yves; Davies, Anthony E.; Alonso-Zarazaga, Miguel A.; et al. (2011). "Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta)". ZooKeys. Pensoft Publishers (88): 1–972. doi:10.3897/zookeys.88.807. ISSN 1313-2989. PMC 3088472. PMID 21594053.
• LeConte, J.L. (1861). Classification of the Coleoptera of North America. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. 3. Smithsonian Institution. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.38459. ISBN 0665100558.
• White, Richard E. (1998) [1983]. A Field Guide to the Beetles of North America (Peterson Field Guides). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN 0395910897.

External links

• Media related to Melanactes at Wikimedia Commons