Elathous californicus Van Dyke, 1932

Kundrata, Robin, Németh, Tamás, Prosvirov, Alexander S. & Hoffmannova, Johana, 2021, Annotated catalogue of the click-beetle genus Elathous Reitter, 1890 (Coleoptera Elateridae: Dendrometrinae), including habitus photographs for all species, Zootaxa 4995 (2), pp. 231-265 : 237

Elathous californicus Van Dyke

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Elathous californicus Van Dyke, 1932: 359 .

Type depository. Holotype, male ( CAS); allotype, female ( CAS), 3 paratypes, females ( CAS).

Type locality. USA: California, El Dorado Co., Strawberry Valley .

Distribution. Western parts of Canada and USA.

Literature. Van Dyke (1932: 359): original description; Leng & Mutchler (1933: 84): catalogue; Fall (1934: 31): comparison with other species; Blackwelder (1974: 27): catalogue; Bousquet (1991: 177): distributional note; Bousquet et al. (2013: 183): distributional note; Etzler (2019: 306): checklist.

Figures

FIGURE 2. Nearctic species of genus Elathous. A, E. californicus Van Dyke, 1932, holotype, male; B, E discalceatus (Say, 1839), non-type specimen from Canada, sex unknown; C, E. huguenini (Van Dyke, 1932), holotype, female; D, E. nebulosus (Van Dyke, 1932), holotype, male. Photograph A provided by C. A. Maier (MCZ), B–D provided by R. Diaz-Bastin & C. Grinter (CAS). Scale bars: 2.0 mm. Labels not to scale.