FAMILY EUCNEMIDAE (False click beetles)
Y. Bousquet
Twenty-seven species of eucnemids have been reported for Canada and Alaska. The adults occur mainly on vegetation and under bark but are rather infrequently collected. The larvae bore into various hardwoods, usually rotten ones. Like elaterids, adults have the clicking mechanism but few species have been actually observed to click. The taxonomy of the North American species of Eucnemidae has been poorly studied and many changes and additions to the Canadian fauna can be expected. The last revision of the family is that of Horn (1886).
AK (1); BC (13); AB (1); MB (2); ON (16); PQ (17); NB (5); NS (3); NF (1)
Subfamily EUCNEMINAE
Genus STETHON LeConte
S. pectorosus LeConte ------ON PQ - - - - -
Genus DELTOMETOPUS Bonvouloir
D. amoenicornis (Say) ------ON PQ NB NS - - - clypeatus (Say) ereptus Bonvouloir
Genus DROMAEOLUS Kiesenwetter
D. basalis (LeConte) - - - BC ------D. californicus Bonvouloir - - - BC ------D. cylindricollis (Say) ------ON PQ - - - - - D. harringtoni Horn ------MB ON PQ NB - - - - D. nitens Horn - - - BC ------
Genus FORNAX Castelnau Isarthrus LeConte Onichodon Newman
F. badius (Melsheimer) ------ON PQ - - - - - basalis Horn novitius (Bonvouloir) F. calceatus (Say) ------ON PQ - - - - - spretus (LeConte) F. canadensis W.J.Brown ------ON PQ NB NS - - - F. hornii Bonvouloir ------ON PQ - - - - - F. orchesides (Newman) ------ON PQ - - - - -
Genus PHAENOCERUS Bonvouloir
P. americanus Horn - - - BC ------
Subfamily DIRHAGINAE
Genus DIRHAGUS Latreille Microrhagus Dejean
D. imperfectus (LeConte) ------MB ON PQ - - - - - oblitus (Bonvouloir) subsinuatus (LeConte) D. pectinatus (LeConte) - - - BC - - - ON PQ NB - - - - D. triangularis (Say) ------ON PQ - - - - -
Genus ENTOMOPHTHALMUS Bonvouloir
E. rufiolus (LeConte) ------ON PQ - - - - - pallens Bonvouloir
Subfamily MELASINAE
Genus ISORHIPIS Boisduval & Lacordaire
I. ruficornis (Say) - - - BC - - - ON - NB NS - - - obliqua (Say)
Genus MELASIS Olivier
M. rufipennis Horn - - - BC ------M. tsugae Hopping - - - BC ------
Genus SARPEDON Bonvouloir
S. scabrosus Bonvouloir - - - BC - - - ON PQ - - - - -
Genus EPIPHANIS Eschscholtz
E. cornutus Eschscholtz AK - - BC - - - ON PQ - - - - NF cristatus LeConte
Genus SCHIZOPHILUS Bonvouloir
S. subrufus (Randall) ------simplex (LeConte) trilobatus Bonvouloir
Genus HYLIS des Gozis
H. terminalis (LeConte) - - - BC - - - ON PQ - - - - -
Genus XYLOPHILUS Mannerheim Xylobius Latreille Xyloecus Dejean
X. cylindriformis (Horn) - - - BC ------
Genus NEMATODES Berthold Hypocoelus Dejean
N. penetrans (LeConte) ------PQ - - - - -
Genus ANELASTES Kirby
A. druryi Kirby - - - BC AB ------erosus (Say) latreillei LeConte