Megathous
Sign in to saveMegathous is a genus of click beetles in the family, Elateridae. It was originally established by Edmund Reitter as a subgenus of the genus Harminius . There are more than 10 described species in Megathous, found in the Palearctic.
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Megathous is a genus of click beetles in the family, Elateridae. It was originally established by Edmund Reitter as a subgenus of the genus Harminius . There are more than 10 described species in Megathous, found in the Palearctic.
==Species== These species belong to the genus Megathous: Megathous algirinus (Candèze, 1860) Megathous altaicus (Schwarz, 1900) Megathous barrosi (Méquignon, 1932) Megathous escalerai (Cobos, 1958) Megathous ficcuzzensis (Buysson, 1912) Megathous fiorii Platia & Marini, 1990 Megathous hispanicus Platia & Gudenzi, 2005 Megathous lizlerwerneri Mertlik, 2005 Megathous menetriesi (Reitter, 1890) Megathous peyerimhoffi Buysson, 1917 Megathous pici (Buysson, 1898) Megathous rifensis (Cobos, 1969) '' (Mannerheim, 1852) Megathous suturalis (Candèze, 1873) Megathous valtopinensis Platia & Gudenzi, 2005
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