Click Beetle
Related Category: Zoology: Invertebrates
common name for members of the widespread beetle family Elateridae.
Click beetles are so called because of the way they right themselves when they are tipped onto their backs; the thorax is arched, and a projection underneath their bodies is flicked outwards, they then flip into the air with an audible 'click', ...
The Elateridae or click beetles (fig. 18) have the prosternal process just mentioned, capable of movement in and out of the mesosternal cavity, the beetles being thus enabled to leap into the air, ...
A Click Beetle specimen
A Climbing Galaxias at Manly Dam
A Climbing Galaxias photographed at Manly Dam
A Close-up of a Blue-eye Trevalla caught off Balina
A close-up of a Common Toadfish at Clifton Gardens ...
But the click beetle (of the family Elateridae) has a special mechanism on the underside of its body that helps the beetle spring into the air to right itself. The beetle makes a clicking sound when it does this, hence the name! ...
are insects and other arthropods.[1] In one study in new South Wales adult beetles were the most common component of the Varied Sittella's diet, around 36%; particularly favoured were weevils, ladybirds, leaf beetles Chrysomelidae) and click beetles ...
These are elateriform larvae, and are found in the click beetle (Elateridae) and darkling beetle (Tenebrionidae) families. Some elateriform larvae of click beetles are known as wireworms.
They eat mainly moths, beetles-including June beetles, scarabs, longhorned beetles, and click beetles-and dragonflies.
1 Big Beetles, such as Ground Beetles, Diving Beetles and Scarab Beetles, 2 Soft-winged Beetles, such as Soldier Beetles and Soft-winged Flower Beetles, 3 Longhorn Beetles, 4 Click Beetles, 5 Leaf Beetles, 6 Weevils and Fungus Weevils, 7 Lady Beetles, ...
The other insects observed were beetles (Coleoptera,12%), mainly click beetles (Elateridae) and woodborers (Bupestridae), true bugs (Hemipterans, 8%), grasshoppers (Orthoptera, 4%) and caterpillars (Lepidoptera, 2%).
 See also: Beetle, Moth, Weevil, Ground beetle, Fly
  
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