Limonius

Genus of beetles

Limonius

Temporal range: Ypresian \- Recent

PreꞒ

Limonius auripilis
Scientific classification
Domain:  | Eukaryota
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Arthropoda
Class:  | Insecta
Order:  | Coleoptera
Family:  | Elateridae
Subfamily:  | Dendrometrinae
Genus:  | Limonius
Eschscholtz, 1829
Synonyms

Micrathous Lane, 1971
Solskyana Dolin, 1978
Neoathousius Schimmel & Platia, 1991

Limonius is a genus of click beetles in the family Elateridae. Many of the species formerly placed in this genus have been removed to other genera such as Gambrinus.[1]

## Species

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* Limonius aeger LeConte, 1853
* Limonius agonus (Say) (eastern field wireworm)
* Limonius anceps LeConte, 1853
* Limonius aurifer LeConte, 1853
* Limonius auripilis (Say, 1823)
* Limonius basilaris
* Limonius californicus (Mannerheim) (sugarbeet wireworm)
* Limonius canus Leconte (Pacific coast wireworm)
* Limonius consimilis
* Limonius ectypus (Say, 1839)
* †Limonius impunctus Scudder, 1895 (Ypresian, Allenby Formation)[2]
* Limonius infuscatus Motschulsky
* Limonius jonesi Lane, 1965
* Limonius lanei Van Dyke, 1932
* Limonius meridianus Knull, 1947
* Limonius nitidulus Horn, 1871
* Limonius pectoralis LeConte, 1866
* Limonius quercinus (Say, 1825)
* Limonius subauratus Leconte (Columbia basin wireworm)

## References

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1. ^ F.E. Etzler. 2019. Generic reclassification of Limonius Eschscholtz, 1829 (Elateridae: Dendrometrinae) sensu Candèze 1860 of the world. Zootaxa 4863:301-335.
2. ^ Scudder, S. H (1895). "Canadian fossil insects, myriapods and arachnids, Vol II. The Coleoptera hitherto found fossil in Canada". Geological Survey of Canada Contributions to Canadian Palaeontology. 2: 5–26.

## Further reading

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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Limonius.

* Arnett, R. H. Jr.; Thomas, M. C.; Skelley, P. E.; Frank, J. H., eds. (21 June 2002). American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, Florida.
* Arnett, Ross H. (2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico. CRC Press.
* White, Richard E. (1983). Peterson Field Guides: Beetles. Houghton Mifflin Company.

Taxon identifiers

Limonius|

* Wikidata: Q2147771
* Wikispecies: Limonius
* BioLib: 9274
* BOLD: 75130
* BugGuide: 88199
* CoL: 62YMS
* EoL: 110525
* EPPO: 1LIMOG
* Fauna Europaea: 235911
* Fauna Europaea (new): a81968f0-917b-4d66-93c8-13112a5ac82f
* GBIF: 1162132
* iNaturalist: 177405
* IRMNG: 1276181
* ITIS: 113900
* NCBI: 341340
* Open Tree of Life: 410399
* Paleobiology Database: 209649
* Plazi: FC3C87A4-327E-B313-83CE-BF57BA7FFE85

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