Denticollinae
Denticollis linearis
The Denticollinae are a cosmopolitan subfamily of beetles ( Elateridae ). It comprises about 1500 species in 150 genera. After Leschen, Bags & Lawrence ( 2010) includes the subfamily formerly known as independently recognized subfamilies Diminae and Hypnoidinae with one, as did the tribe Pleonomini that of Laurent (1966 ) was raised to the rank of a subfamily, but then Stibick (1979 ) was attributed to the Aplastinae.
Features
The adults are not easy to distinguish from the species of the subfamily Elaterinae, but usually have a more flattened and elongated head further forward.
The larvae see where the Elaterinae also similar in that they have a rear abgestutztes Postmentum, but their ninth Tergum is always scored, resulting in paired Urogomphi.
Taxonomy and systematics
The subfamily is divided into the following ten tribes:
- Crepidominini Candèze, 1863
- Ctenicerini Fleutiaux, 1936
- Denticollini Reitter, 1905
- Dimini Candèze, 1863
- Hemicrepidiini Champion, 1894
- Hypnoidini Black, 1906
- Hypolithini Fleutiaux, 1928
- Pleonomini Stibick, 1979
- Prosternini Gistel, 1856
- Senodoniini Schenkling, 1926
The Senodoniini be seen by Schimmel (1996 ), either as a sister group or within the Dimini. The larvae are very different from those and see because of their Mandibelform, the shape of the Postmentums and the abdomen tip and the movable spines on the tergites and sternites of the abdomen are more like those of the subfamily Lissominae similar.