Click beetle
- Description
- This beetle was collected by Major AB Gay in South America. Click beetles are able to produce a clicking sound. Clicking is used to avoid predation because the mechanism that produces the click enables the beetle to spring into the air.
- Accession Loan No.
- 7/1931/164
- Collection Class
- Arthropods
- Common Name
- click beetle
- Simple Name
- insect: beetle
- Full Name
- ELATERIDAE: non det.
- Family Group
- Collector / Excavator
- Gay, A B ?
- Collection Area Region
- South America
- Collection Continent
- Latin America and the Caribbean
- Phylum
- ARTHROPODA
- Family
- ELATERIDAE
