Alaus

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Ordo: Coleoptera
Subordo: Polyphaga
Infraordo: Elateriformia
Superfamilia: Elateroidea

Familia: Elateridae
Subfamilia: Agrypninae
Tribus: Hemirhipini
Genus: Alaus
Species (18): A. alicii – A. calcaripilosus – A. cinnamomeus – A. haroldi – A. latipennis – A. lusciosus – A. melanops – A. myops – A. nobilis – A. oculatus – A. patricius – A. plebejus – A. sericeus – A. thoracopunctatus – A. tricolor – A. unicus – A. veracruzanus – A. zunianus
Name

Alaus Eschscholtz, 1829: 33 [also seen as 32]

Gender: masculine

Type species: Elater oculatus Linnaeus, 1756 by monotypy

Synonymy

Alans Chenu, 1860 [misspelling]
Alaus Fairmaire, 1878 [junior homonym]
Lamprias Gistel, 1834

References
Primary references

Eschscholtz, J.F. 1829. Eintheilung der Elateriden in Gattungen. Entomologisches Archiv, 2(1): 31–35. Reference page.

Additional references

Casari, S.A. 1996: Systematics and phylogenetic analysis of Alaus Eschscholtz, 1829 (Coleoptera, Elateridae). Revista brasileira de entomologia, 40: 249–298. [not seen]
Casari, S.A. 2002: Larvae of Alaus myops, A. oculatus, Chalcolepidius porcatus, Hemirhipus apicalis and generic larval characterization (Elateridae, Agrypninae, Hemirhipini). Iheringia, Série Zoologia, 92 (2): 93–110. PDF
Casari, S.A. 2003. New species of Alaus Eschscholtz, 1829 (Coleoptera: Elateridae, Agrypninae, Hemirhipini). Annales de la Société entomologique de France (N.S.) 39(4): 315–333. full article (PDF). Reference page.
Woodruff, R.E. 1999 (revised 2004): Click Beetles, Alaus spp. (Insecta: Coleoptera: Elateridae). Document EENY-085, 5 pp. University of Florida IFAS Extension. PDF

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Nomenclator Zoologicus

Alaus is a genus of click beetle belonging to the family Elateridae. Unlike many click beetles, Alaus larvae are completely predatory.
Selected species

Alaus lusciosus (Hope, 1832)
Alaus melanops LeConte, 1863
Alaus myops (Fabricius, 1791)
Alaus naja Candèze, 1868
Alaus oculatus (Linnaeus, 1758) - eyed click beetle
Alaus oklahomensis Hatch, 1930
Alaus pantherinus Candèze, 1881
Alaus patricius Candeze, 1857
Alaus plebejus Candèze, 1874
Alaus zunianus Casey, 1893

References

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