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Family Elateridae
- This page contains information and pictures about Mottled Predatory Click Beetles
that we
found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.
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 - Body length 20mm
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- How Click Beetle click?
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- Click Beetles have the prothorax loosely joined to pterothorax. The
clicking mechanism consists of a long prosternal process which can be
suddenly be snapped into a cavity in the mesosternum (the underside chest
of abdomen) thus causing the prothorax to move quickly relative to the
hind body. In so doing produces the click sound and flicks the beetle into
the air.
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- Why Click Beetle click?
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- The Click Beetles use this trick to escape and flip-over when they are
upside down.
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- This genus Paracalais is known to be predatory.
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- We found this beetle once in Carbrook Wetland on Nov 2009.
- Reference:
- 1. A Guide to the Beetles of Australia - George Hangay and Paul Zborowski, CSIRO PUBLISHING April
2010, p125.
- 2.
Northern
Territory Insects, A Comprehensive Guide CD - Graham Brown, 2009.
- 3. A guide to the Genera of Beetles of South Australia Part.4 -
Matthews, E.G. 1985, fig50.
- 4. Paracalais gibboni (Newman) - Australian insects Common Name, CSIRO.
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