#elateridae

[roaches-are-forever]

a click beetle I saw today

[reanimateobjects]

[unspokenmantra]

[jupiterswasphouse]

[PHOTOS TAKEN: MAY 9TH, 2026 | Image IDs: Four photos of a grey small eyed click beetle perched on the side of a stripped log /End IDs.]

Alaus myops, I do believe, the small eyed click beetle!

[naturalist-journal]

[razehider]

if you're passingly familiar with beetles but don't necessarily know all the more obscure taxa, this Malacogaster might appear like a confusing amalgamation of a few different families, but it actually belongs to one you'd never expect it to - this is in fact a particularly weird looking click beetle, with all of its relatives' diagnostic features practically gone

this is a larva, but adult females are larviform and don't look too different, which is how i know the other one is a male. they're also like, three times the males' size

(June 14th, 2025)

[bugtoucher420]

Interesting little beetles galore!

Blood-Necked Longhorn Beetle

Neglected Soldier Beetle

Marbled Fungus Weevil

Southern Corn Billbug

Spring Treetop Flasher

unidentified click beetle (possibly Gambrinus griseus)

And a bonus fiery searcher elytra!

[herpsandbirds]

Also hope this click beetle isn't endangered due to all the self-inflicted G-forces it experienced because it won't sit still for a picture. (Don't recall how many, though, which I would like along with an ID.) Weatherford, Parker County, North Texas

Beetle ID – TX, USA:

It could be very difficult to tell all these little dark brown click Beatles apart from each other, but this looks very much like Diplostethus texanus, family Elateridae.