Lanelater fuscipes

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Lanelater fuscipes
Elateridae - Lanelater fuscipes.jpg
Museum specimen of Lanelater fuscipes
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L. fuscipes
Binomial name
Lanelater fuscipes
Fabricius, 1775
Synonyms
  • Agrypnus fuscipes Fleautiaux, 1922,

Lanelater fuscipes is a species of click beetle belonging to the family Elateridae subfamily Agrypninae.

Description[]

Lanelater fuscipes can reach a length of 33 millimetres (1.3 in). These large click beetles have a dark brown body. Usually they show a puncturation of the pronotum and an evident striation of the elytra, but the species is quite variable, especially in the length and in degree of convexity of the prothorax. Its larvae live in the coconut palms.

Distribution[]

This species can be found in Madagascar, Sri Lanka, India and Indochina.

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