Lacon

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Elateroidea
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Pancrustacea Cladus: Allotriocarida Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Subclassis: Pterygota Infraclassis: Neoptera Cladus: Eumetabola Cladus: Holometabola Superordo: Coleopterida Ordo: Coleoptera Subordo: Polyphaga Infraordo: Elateriformia Superfamilia: Elateroidea

Familia: Elateridae
Subfamilia: Agrypninae
Tribus: Agrypnini
Genus: Lacon
Species: L. altaicus – L. amamiensis – L. atayal – L. avitus – L. aurosquamosus – L. bicolor – L. boninensis – L. brachypterus – L. caeruleus – L. candezei – L. carinatus – L. churakagi – L. collisus – L. cyprius – L. delagrangei – L. diqingensis – L. drusa – L. elegantissimus – L. flavopilosus – L. funebris – L. ganglbaueri – L. gillerforsi – L. graecus – L. kabakovi – L. kapleri – L. kikuchii – L. kintaroui – L. kryzhanovskyi – L. kushihige – L. lepidopterus – L. lijiangensis – L. lithophilus – L. maeklinii – L. maenamii – L. mausoni – L. mekrani – L. modestus – L. monticola – L. mucheibensis – L. nadaii – L. nigrofucus – L. oblongus – L. obscurus – L. olivieri – L. parallelus – L. platiai – L. punctatus – L. puriensis – L. qatanensis – L. quadrinodatus – L. querceus – L. ramatasenseni – L. robustus – L. rotundicollis – L. rubripennis – L. safitensis – L. sanguineus – L. solai – L. tafilensis – L. unicolor – L. yayeyamanus – L. yunnanus – L. zenobiae

Name

Lacon Laporte, 1838.

Gender: masculine [fide Kundrata et al., 2019: 93].

Type species: Elater atomarius Fabricius, 1798 [= Elater punctatus Herbst, 1779], by subsequent designation (Hyslop, 1921: 652)

Synonymy

(List may be incomplete)

Adelocera sensu auct. non Latreille, 1829
Lepidotus Stephens, 1830: 374. Preoccupied by Lepidotus Asso, 1801 [Pisces].
- Type species: Elater varius Olivier, 1790 [= Elater querceus Herbst, 1784], by subsequent designation (Hyslop, 1921: 652).

References

Primary references

Laporte [de Castelnau], F.L. 1838 ("1836"). Études entomologiques, ou descriptions d'insectes nouveaux et observations sur la synonymie [continued]. Revue Entomologique 4(1): 5–60. BHL Reference page. [see page 11]

Additional references

Cate, P.C., Sánchez-Ruiz, A., Löbl, I. & Smetana, A. 2007. Elateridae, pp. 89–209. In: Löbl, I. & Smetana, A. (eds.), Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Volume 4. Elateroidea – Derodontoidea – Lymexyloidea – Cleroidea - Cucujoidea. Stenstrup, Denmark: Apollo Books. 935 pp. ISBN 87-88757-67-6 DOI: 10.1163/9789004260894 . Google Books (limited preview available). Reference page. [see pages 100–102]
Hyslop, J.A. 1921. Genotypes of the elaterid beetles of the world. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 58(2353): 621–680. DOI: 10.5479/si.00963801.2353.621 . BHL. Reference page.
Kundrata, R., Kubaczkova, M., Prosvirov, A.S., Douglas, H.B., Fojtikova, A., Costa, C., Bousquet, Y., Alonso-Zarazaga, M.A. & Bouchard, P. 2019. World catalogue of the genus-group names in Elateridae (Insecta, Coleoptera). Part I: Agrypninae, Campyloxeninae, Hemiopinae, Lissominae, Oestodinae, Parablacinae, Physodactylinae, Pityobiinae, Subprotelaterinae, Tetralobinae. ZooKeys 839: 83–154. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.839.33279 . Reference page. [see pages 93–94]
Kundrata, R., Mertlik, J. & Németh, T. 2019. Unexpected diversity of Lacon Laporte, 1838 (Coleoptera: Elateridae: Agrypninae) in the Levant: revised species concepts, new species, and an identification key. Zootaxa 4679(3): 401–449. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4679.3.1 Reference page.
Löbl, I. & Smetana, A. 2008. Errata for Volume 4. In: Löbl, I. & Smetana, A. (eds.), Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Volume 5. Tenebrionoidea. Stenstrup, Denmark: Apollo Books, p. 22. DOI: 10.1163/9789004260900_009 . Google Books (limited preview available).
Németh, T., Brůha, P. & Kundrata, R. 2020. Discovery of a new species of Lacon Laporte (Coleoptera: Elateridae: Agrypninae) endemic to Cyprus, with a modified tarsal morphology. Zootaxa 4780(3): 554–562. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4780.3.7 Reference page.
Platia, G. & Németh, T. 2011. On some Palaearctic click beetles deposited in the Hungarian Natural History Museum (Coleoptera: Elateridae). Annales historico-naturales Musei nationalis hungarici. 103: 65-106. Full article (PDF). Reference page.
Prosvirov, A.S. 2016. New and little-known species of the genus Lacon Laporte, 1838 (Coleoptera: Elateridae) of China. Zootaxa 4132(3): 373–382. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4132.3.5. Reference page.
Prosvirov, A.S. 2016. New and little-known species of the genus Lacon Laporte, 1838 (Coleoptera: Elateridae) of Afghanistan and adjacent countries. Zootaxa 4168(2): 279–296. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4168.2.3 . ResearchGate . Reference page.
Prosvirov, A.S. 2017. Новые данные по фауне и систематике палеарктических видов жуков-щелкунов подсемейства Agrypninae Candèze 1857 (Coleoptera, Elateridae) [New data on the fauna and systematics of Palaearctic species of the click-beetle subfamily Agrypninae Candèze 1857 (Coleoptera, Elateridae)]. Zoologicheskiy Zhurnal 96(10): 1181–1196. (Russian) DOI: 10.7868/S0044513417080116 . ResearchGate . Reference page.