CHECKLIST OF THE ALBERTA ELATERIDAE (click beetles)
		[Classification after Bousquet, 1991]

			E.R. Fuller, April, 2002

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SUBFAMILY Pyrophorinae
Tribe Pyrophorini
Lacon Castelnau
	auroratus (Say)
Danosoma Thomson
	brevicornis (LeConte)
	obtecta (Say)
Drasterius Eschscholtz
	debilis LeConte
Aeolus Eschscholtz
	mellillus (Say) [including forms/subspecies comis (LeConte) and marginicollis (Horn)]
Conoderus Eschscholtz
	auritus (Herbst)

Tribe Pityobini
Pityobius LeConte
	anguinus LeConte

Tribe Athoini

Limonius Eschscholtz
	sp. A (Brooks, 1960)
	aeger LeConte
	californicus (Mannerheim)
	canus LeConte
	infuscatus Motschulsky
	lanei Van Dyke
	lecontei Lane
	nitidulus Horn
	pectoralis LeConte
	rufihumeralis Lane
	ursinus Van Dyke
Athous Eschscholtz
	nigropilis Motschulsky
	productus (Randall)
	rufiventris (Eschscholtz)
Harminius Fairmaire
	triundulatus (Mannerheim)
Denticollis Piller & Mitterpacher
	denticornis (Kirby)
Ligmargus Stibick
	funebris (Candeze)
Ascoliocerus Mequignon
	sanborni (Horn)
Margaiostus Stibick
	glacialis (Van Dyke)
Hypnoidus Dillwyn
	abbreviatus (Say)
	bicolor (Eschscholtz)
	impressicollis (Mannerheim)
	leei Stibick, 1968
	nocturnus (Eschscholtz)?
	rivularis (Gyllenhal)
	squalidus (LeConte)
Oedostethus LeConte
	femoralis LeConte
Negastrius Thomson
	arnetti Stibick, 1990
	dubius (Horn)
	gentilis (LeConte)
	manki (Fall)
	obliquatulus (Melsheimer)
	striatulus (LeConte)
	tumescens (LeConte)
Ctenicera Latreille
	sp. A (Brooks, 1960)
	aeripennis (Kirby) [including destructor Brown]
	arata (LeConte)
	bipunctata (Brown)
	bombycina (Germar)
	callida (Brown)
	columbiana (Brown) [propola columbiana]
	consors (Brown) [nomen nudum? Sp. A of Brooks, 1960?]
	crestonensis (Brown)
	cruciata (Linnaeus) [pulchra (Leconte)]
	glauca (Germar)
	hoppingi (Van Dyke)
	kendalli (Kirby)
	laricis (Brown)
	limoniiformis (Horn)
	lutescens (Fall)
	mediana (Germar)
	mendax (LeConte)
	montana (Brown)
	morula (LeConte)
	nebraskensis (Bland)
	nigricollis (Bland)
	nitidula (LeConte)
	ochreipennis (LeConte)
	propola (LeConte)
	pudica (Brown)
	pygmaea (Van Dyke)
	resplendens (Eschscholtz) [including ssp. aeraria (Randall?)
	semimetallica (Walker)
	sexualis (Brown)
	silvatica (Van Dyke)
	splendens (Zeigler)
	stricklandi (Brown)
	triundulata (Randall)
	umbricola (Eschscholtz)
	umbripennis (LeConte)
	vidua (Brown)
Oxygonus LeConte
	obesus (Say)
Eanus LeConte
	albertanus Brown
	decoratus (Mannerheim)
	estriatus (LeConte)
Hemicrepidius Germar
	sp. A (Brooks, 1960)
	carbonatus LeConte
	memnonius (Herbst)
	simplex (LeConte)

Tribe Oestodini
Oestodes LeConte
	puncticollis Horn

SUBFAMILY Elaterinae
Tribe Elaterini
Sericus Eschscholtz
	incongruus (LeConte)

Tribe Agriotini
Agriotes Eschscholtz
	criddlei Van Dyke
	ferrugineipennis (LeConte)
	fucosus (LeConte)
	limosus (LeConte)
	mancus (Say)?
	opaculus (LeConte)
	tardus Brown
Agriotella Brown
	occidentalis Brown
Dalopius Eschscholtz
	asellus Brown
	fucatus Brown
	gartrelli Brown
	inordinatus Brown
	insolens Brown
	mirabilis Brown
	pallidus Brown

Tribe Ampedini
Ampedus Dejean
	apicatus (Say)
	brevis (Van Dyke)
	deletus (LeConte)
	evansi Brown
	fusculus (LeConte)
	laurentinus Brown
	luctuosus (LeConte)
	miniipennis (LeConte)
	mixtus (Herbst)
	moerens (LeConte)
	nigricans Germar
	nigrinus (Herbst)
	oblessus (Say)
	occidentalis Lane
	pedalis Germar
	phelpsi (Horn)
	pullus Germar
	quebecensis Brown
	sellatus Germar
	subtilis (LeConte)?
	uteanus (Van Dyke)
	varipilis (Van Dyke)
Megapenthes Kiesenwetter
	stigmosus (LeConte)

Tribe Physorhinini
Anchastus LeConte
	cinereipennis (Eschscholtz)

SUBFAMILY Cardiophorinae
Cardiophorus Eschscholtz
	acutus Lanchester
	brunnipennis Lanchester
	cardisce (Say)
	fenestratus LeConte
	kooskooskiensis Lanchester
	montanus Blanchard
	pratensus Lanchester
	pubescens Blanchard
	silvanus Lanchester
	sodalis Lanchester
	tenebrosus LeConte
	tumidicollis LeConte
	tutus Lanchester

Bousquet, Y., 1991. Family Elateridae click beetles, pp. 175-185. In Y. Bousquet, Ed., Checklist of Beetles of Canada and Alaska. Research Branch, Agriculture Canada Publication 1861/E. 430 pp.

Brooks, A.R., 1960. Adult Elateridae of southern Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba (Coleoptera). Canadian Entomologist, suppl. 20 (vol. 92). 63 pp.