- Animals
- ›Arthropods
- ›Hexapods
- ›Insects
- ›Winged and Once-winged Insects
- ›Beetles
- ›Water, Rove, Scarab, Long-horned, Leaf, and Snout Beetles
- ›Elateriform Beetles
- ›Click, Firefly, and Soldier Beetles
- ›Click Beetles
- ›Agrypninae
- ›Tetralobini
- ›Tetralobus
Giant Acacia Click Beetle
Tetralobus flabellicornis
Tetralobus flabellicornis, the Giant Acacia Click Beetle, is a species of click beetle belonging to the family Elateridae.
From the article Tetralobus flabellicornis on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
Tetralobus flabellicornis can reach a length of 60–80 millimetres (2.4–3.1 in). This large click beetle has a dark brown to black body covered with a brownish grey pubescence, the latter showing a weak to medium reflectance in the near-infrared. The quite long antennae carry large lamellae in males, while they are serrate in females. Larvae live in the termite nests. These beetles feed on Acacia trees.
Range & habitat
This species is widespread in South Africa, Namibia, Democratic Republic of Congo, Senegal, Zambia, Zanzibar, Liberia and Zaire. It lives in savannah and subtropical forests.
Wikipedia: “Distribution and habitat”
Listen
Looking for field recordings…
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
—
geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
Drag the globe to turn it. Dots are where records exist, not a range map; darker means more records.
In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Tetralobus flabellicornis in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 447183.