Species list, Checklist of Infraorder Elateriformia for Bird Island (South Georgia)

Ants	Arachnids
Bees	Beetles
Booklice	Bugs
Bumblebees	Butterflies
Cicadas	Crane flies
Dragonflies	Earwigs
Flies	Isopods
Locusts	Mantises
Mayflies	Mosquitoes
Myriapods	Net-winged
Plant-parasitic	Scorpion flies
Termites	Wasps

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INSECTOIDGERENGDARK LIGHT

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Checklist for Infraorder Elateriformia Crowson, 1960
and region Bird Island (South Georgia)

Class	Insecta Linnaeus, 1758 Insects, True insects	29 93 159	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Subclass	Pterygota Lang, 1888 Winged insects	29 93 159	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Infraclass	Neoptera van der Wulp, 1890 Modern Wing-folding insects	28 92 158	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Superorder	Holometabola Heider, 1889 Holometabolous Insects	19 82 147	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Order	Coleoptera Linnaeus, 1758 Beetles, Coleopterans	11 64 126	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Suborder	Polyphaga Emery, 1886 Polyphags	10 50 91	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Infraorder	Elateriformia Crowson, 1960	2 4 5	Families Genera Species	Taxom

List of families for Bird Island
2 Families width 5 Species

Scirtidae Fleming, 1821	Marsh Beetle	3	Species	Taxom
Heteroceridae (MacLeay, 1825)	Mud beetles	2	Species	Taxom

Genera for Bird Island
4 Genera with 5 Species

Contacyphon des Gozis, 1787		1	Species	Taxom
Cyphon Paykull, 1868		1	Species	Taxom
Heterocerus Fabricius, 1787		2	Species	Taxom
Scirtes Illiger, 1767	Water beetles	1	Species	Taxom

Species list for Bird Island
5 Species

Contacyphon variabilis Thunberg, 1787
Cyphon laevipennis (Tournier, 1868)	⇒ Contacyphon laevipennis Tournier, 1868
Heterocerus fenestratus Thunberg, 1784
Heterocerus marginatus (Fabricius, 1787)	⇒ Heterocerus obsoletus Curtis, 1828
Scirtes hemisphaericus Linnaeus, 1767

Subnodes of Elateriformia with occurrences in Bird Island

Superfamily	Dryopoidea Hunt & al., 2007	1 1 2	Family Genus Species	Taxom
Superfamily	Scirtoidea Fleming, 1821 Clambids, Plate-thigh and Marsh Beetles	1 3 3	Family Genera Species	Taxom

Links, sources and further information

Elateriformia at itis.gov