Denticollis linearis

Denticollis linearis
Denticollis linearis - female
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Family:	Elateridae
Genus:	Denticollis
Species:	D. linearis
Binomial name
Denticollis linearis (Linnaeus, 1758)
Synonyms
Elater linearis Linnaeus, 1758

Denticollis linearis is a species of click beetle belonging to the family Elateridae subfamily Dendrometrinae.

This beetle is present in most of Europe, in the East Palearctic ecozone, in the Nearctic ecozone and in the Near East.

Lateral view

Denticollis linearis is quite similar to a Cantharidae species, but it can be distinguished from a soldier beetle by the two basal angles very protruding on pronotum and the deep longitudinal rows of pits.

The pronotum varies from orange-red to brownish, the elytra from dark-brown to yellowish, while the head and femora are generally blackish, the tarsi and tibia are orange-yellow.

The larvae are omnivorous, feeding on many different plants and other species larvae. The adults grow up to 9–13 millimetres (0.35–0.51 in) long and can mostly be encountered from May through July in broadleaved and coniferous host-trees.

References

• Mendel, H. & Clarke, R. E., 1996, Provisional Atlas of the click beetles of (Coleoptera: Elateroidea) of Britain and Ireland, , Ipswich Borough Council Museums, Ipswich
• Speight, M. C. D., 1989, The Irish Elaterid and Buprestid fauna (Coleoptera: Elateridae and Buprestidae), Bulletin of the Irish Biogeographical Society, 12: 31-62

Subspecies

• Denticollis linearis var. mesomelas (Linnaeus)
• Denticollis linearis var. variabilis (DeGeer)

External links

• Biolib
• Elateridae
• Habitas
• Fauna Europaea
• Elateridae.co.uk