- Source: Megathous
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 Fairmaire, 1851. 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)
Megathous sedakovii (Mannerheim, 1852)
Megathous suturalis (Candèze, 1873)
Megathous valtopinensis Platia & Gudenzi, 2005
Excluded species
The following 3 species were transferred to the genus Hemicrepidius by Frank E. Etzler in 2020.
Hemicrepidius dauricus (Mannerheim, 1852) (syn. Megathous dauricus (Mannerheim, 1852))
Hemicrepidius jacobsoni (Reitter, 1905) (syn. Megathous jacobsoni (Reitter, 1905))
Hemicrepidius nigerrimus (Desbrochers des Loges, 1869) (syn. Megathous nigerrimus (Desbrochers des Loges, 1869))