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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Family: | Elateridae |
| Subfamily: | Dendrometrinae |
| Tribe: | Dendrometrini |
| Genus: | Megathous Reitter, 1905 |
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Megathous is a genus of click beetles in the family Elateridae. It was originally established by Edmund Reitter as a subgenus of the genus Harminius Fairmaire, 1851. There are more than 10 described species in Megathous, found in the Palearctic.
Species
These species belong to the genus Megathous:
- Megathous algirinus (Candèze, 1860)
- Megathous altaicus (Schwarz, 1900)
- Megathous barrosi (Méquignon, 1932)
- Megathous escalerai (Cobos, 1958)
- Megathous ficcuzzensis (Buysson, 1912)
- Megathous fiorii Platia & Marini, 1990
- Megathous hispanicus Platia & Gudenzi, 2005
- Megathous lizlerwerneri Mertlik, 2005
- Megathous menetriesi (Reitter, 1890)
- Megathous peyerimhoffi Buysson, 1917
- Megathous pici (Buysson, 1898)
- Megathous rifensis (Cobos, 1969)
- Megathous sedakovii [species] (Mannerheim, 1852)
- Megathous suturalis (Candèze, 1873)
- Megathous valtopinensis Platia & Gudenzi, 2005
Excluded species
The following 3 species were transferred to the genus Hemicrepidius by Frank E. Etzler [species] in 2020.
- Hemicrepidius dauricus [species] (Mannerheim, 1852) (syn. Megathous dauricus (Mannerheim, 1852))
- Hemicrepidius jacobsoni [species] (Reitter, 1905) (syn. Megathous jacobsoni (Reitter, 1905))
- Hemicrepidius nigerrimus (Desbrochers des Loges, 1869) (syn. Megathous nigerrimus (Desbrochers des Loges, 1869))
References
- Reitter, E. (1905). "Bestimmungs-Tabelle der europaichen Coleopteren lvi. Elateridae, 1 Theil Elaterini, Subtribus Athouina, aus der palaearctischen Fauna. Mit einer Uebersicht der Familiengruppe der Sternoxia und der Gattungen der Elateridae". Verhandlungen des Naturforschenden Vereins in Brünn (in German). 43: 25 & 27 of 1–122.
- "GBIF, Megathous". Retrieved 2024-10-14.
- Biolib
- "IRMNG taxon details, Megathous Reitter, 1905". Retrieved 2024-10-14.
- Etzler, F.E. (2020). "A Revision of the Genus Hemicrepidius Germar, 1839 (Coleoptera: Elateridae) of the New World, with Comments on Global Classification". The Coleopterists Bulletin. 74 (mo18): 1–126. doi:10.1649/0010-065X-74.mo18.1.
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