Megathous Explained

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 . 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)
• (Mannerheim, 1852)
• Megathous suturalis (Candèze, 1873)
• Megathous valtopinensis Platia & Gudenzi, 2005

Excluded species

The following 3 species were transferred to the genus Hemicrepidius by in 2020.

• (syn. Megathous dauricus (Mannerheim, 1852))
• (syn. Megathous jacobsoni (Reitter, 1905))
• Hemicrepidius nigerrimus (syn. Megathous nigerrimus (Desbrochers des Loges, 1869))