Megathous

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 Fairmaire, 1851.^[1] There are more than 10 described species in Megathous, found in the Palearctic.^[2][3]

Megathous
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Elateriformia
Family:	Elateridae
Subfamily:	Dendrometrinae
Tribe:	Dendrometrini
Genus:	Megathous Reitter, 1905
Synonyms
Harmiathous Ôhira, 1993 Harminathous Kishii, 1955 Mehathous Cobos, 1969

Species

These species belong to the genus Megathous:^[4]

• 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)
• Megathous sedakovii [species] (Mannerheim, 1852)
• Megathous suturalis (Candèze, 1873)
• Megathous valtopinensis Platia & Gudenzi, 2005

Excluded species

The following 3 species were transferred to the genus Hemicrepidius by Frank E. Etzler [species] in 2020.^[5]

• Hemicrepidius dauricus [species] (Mannerheim, 1852) (syn. Megathous dauricus (Mannerheim, 1852))
• Hemicrepidius jacobsoni [species] (Reitter, 1905) (syn. Megathous jacobsoni (Reitter, 1905))
• Hemicrepidius nigerrimus (Desbrochers des Loges, 1869) (syn. Megathous nigerrimus (Desbrochers des Loges, 1869))