Lanelater fuscipes

Lanelater fuscipes is a species of click beetle belonging to the family Elateridae subfamily Agrypninae.

Lanelater fuscipes
Museum specimen of Lanelater fuscipes
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Hexapoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Family:	Elateridae
Genus:	Lanelater
Species:	L. fuscipes
Binomial name
Lanelater fuscipes (Fabricius, 1775)
Synonyms
Agrypnus fuscipes Fleautiaux, 1922 Elater fuscipes Fabricius, 1775

Description

Lanelater fuscipes can reach a length of 33 millimetres (1.3 in). These large click beetles have a dark brown body. Usually they show a puncturation of the pronotum and an evident striation of the elytra, but the species is quite variable, especially in the length and in degree of convexity of the prothorax. Its larvae live in the coconut palms.

Distribution

This species can be found in Madagascar, Réunion, Sri Lanka, India and Indochina.

References

• Biolib
• HlTOO ÔHIRA A List of the Elaterid-Beetles from South Asia
• Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology series Vol 38 1979