Taxonomic Inventory of the Click Beetles
of the Black Hills and Bear Lodge Mountains,
South Dakota and Wyoming

(5 Subfamilies, 12 Tribes, 29 Genera, 62 Species)

Distribution is given by County within each State of Montana (MT), South Dakota (SD) and Wyoming (WY).  Extralimital distribution information on each species is available on elsewhere at this website [../Nearctic/Classification.html].


Family Elateridae

Subfamily Agrypninae

Tribe Agrypnini

Agrypnus rectangularis (Say)
        Distribution - SD: Fall River
Danosoma brevicorne (Say)
        Distribution - SD: Custer, Harding, Lawrence; WY: Crook
Danosoma obtecta (Say)
        Distribution - SD: Custer, Harding, Lawrence; WY: Crook, Weston
Lacon aurorata (Say)
        Distribution - SD: Lawrence; WY: Weston

Tribe Conoderini

Aeolus mellillus (Say)
        Distribution - SD: Lawrence, Meade
Conoderus auritus (Herbst)
        Distribution - SD: Fall River
Conoderus vespertinus (Fabricius)
        Distribution - SD: Fall River

Tribe Hemirhipini

Alaus melanops LeConte
        Distribution - SD: Custer; WY: Crook, Weston
Alaus oculatus (Linnaeus)
        Distribution - SD: Lawrence, Meade, Pennington
 
 

Subfamily Prosterninae
Tribe Athoini

Athous rufiventris rufiventris (Eschscholtz)
        Distribution - SD: Pennington
Hemicrepidius memnonius (Herbst)
        Distribution - SD: Lawrence
Hemicrepidius carbonatus (LeConte)
        Distribution - SD: Pennington
Limonius aeger LeConte
        Distribution - MT: Carter; SD: Custer, Harding, Lawrence, Pennington; WY: Crook
Limonius californicus Mannerheim
        Distribution - SD: Pennington
Limonius pectoralis LeConte
        Distribution - SD: Custer, Lawrence
Limonius ursinus Van Dyke
        Distribution - SD: Custer

Tribe Prosternini

Actenicerus viridis (LeConte)
        Distribution - SD: Lawrence
Corymbitodes pygmaeus (Van Dyke)
        Distribution - SD: Lawrence, Pennington; WY: Crook
Ctenicera kendalli (Kirby)
        Distribution - SD: Lawrence
Ctenicera monticola (Horn)
        Distribution - SD: Harding, Lawrence, Pennington; WY: Crook
Ctenicera resplendens (Eschscholtz)
        Distribution - SD: Custer, Lawrence; WY: Crook
Hadromorphus callidus (Brown)
        Distribution - SD: Custer; WY: Weston
Hadromorphus glaucus (Brown)
        Distribution - MT: Carter; SD: Fall River, Harding, Lawrence; WY: Crook
Liotrichus (Acteniceromorphus) stricklandi (Brown)
        Distribution - SD: Lawrence; WY: Crook
Oxygonus obesus (Say)
        Distribution - WY: Crook
Prosternon mediana (Germar)
        Distribution - SD: Custer, Lawrence; WY: Crook
Pseudanostirus nigricollis (Bland)
        Distribution - SD: Lawrence, Pennington; WY: Crook
Pseudanostirus propolus (LeConte)
        Distribution - MT: Carter; SD: Custer, Fall River, Harding, Lawrence, Pennington; WY: Crook, Weston
Pseudanostirus triundulatus (Randall)
        Distribution - MT: Carter; SD: Custer, Fall River, Harding, Lawrence, Pennington; WY: Crook, Weston
Selatosomus aeripennis (Kirby)
        Distribution - SD: Harding, Lawrence, Pennington
Selatosomus cruciatus (Linnaeus)
        Distribution - SD: Custer, Lawrence, Pennington; WY: Crook
Setasomus nitidulus (LeConte)
        Distribution - SD: Lawrence, Pennington

Tribe Hypnoidini

Hypnoidus bicolor (Eschscholtz)
        Distribution - SD: Lawrence

Subfamily Negastriinae

Neohypdonus tumescens (LeConte)
        Distribution - SD: Custer, Lawrence

Subfamily Elaterinae
Tribe Elaterini

Sericus incongruus LeConte
        Distribution - SD: Lawrence

Tribe Agriotini

Agriotes fucosus (LeConte)
        Distribution - SD: Custer, Lawrence; WY: Crook
Agriotes limosus (LeConte)
        Distribution - SD: Custer, Fall River, Lawrence, Pennington; WY: Crook
Agriotes stabilis (LeConte)
        Distribution - MT: Carter; SD: Custer, Lawrence; WY: Crook
Dalopius mirabilis Brown
        Distribution - SD: Custer, Lawrence, Pennington; WY: Crook
Dalopius pallidus Brown
        Distribution - WY: Crook
Dalopius vagus Brown
        Distribution - SD: Lawrence

Tribe Pomachiliini

Drasterius debilis LeConte
        Distribution - SD: Lawrence, Pennington; WY: Crook

Tribe Ampedini

Ampedus apicatus (Say)
        Distribution - SD: Custer, Fall River, Lawrence, Pennington; WY: Crook, Weston
Ampedus areolatus (Say)
        Distribution - WY: Crook
Ampedus atripennis (Horn)
        Distribution - SD: Custer, Fall River; WY: Weston
Ampedus luctuosus (LeConte)
        Distribution - MT: Carter; SD: Custer, Harding, Lawrence; WY: Crook
Ampedus melsheimeri (Leng)
        Distribution - SD: Custer, Lawrence
Ampedus molestus (LeConte)
        Distribution - MT: Carter; SD: Custer, Harding, Lawrence; WY: Crook, Weston
Ampedus nigricans Germar
        Distribution - MT: Carter; SD: Custer, Lawrence; WY: Crook
Ampedus occidentalis Lane
        Distribution - MT: Carter; SD: Harding; WY: Crook, Weston
Ampedus pullus Germar
        Distribution - SD: Custer, Lawrence, Pennington; WY: Crook, Weston
Ampedus sellatus Leng
        Distribution - WY: Crook

Tribe Megapenthini

Megapenthes stigmosus (LeConte)
        Distribution - SD: Lawrence, Pennington; WY: Crook

Tribe Melanotini

Melanotus castanipes (Paykull)
        Distribution - SD: Custer, Lawrence; WY: Crook, Weston
Melanotus cribulosus (LeConte)
        Distribution - SD: Meade
Melanotus decumanus (Erichson)
        Distribution - SD: Meade
Melanotus depressus (Melsheimer)
        Distribution: WY: Crook
Melanotus pilosus Blatchley
        Distribution: SD: Fall River
Melanotus similis (Kirby)
        Distribution - SD: Custer; WY: Crook, Weston

Subfamily Cardiophorinae

Cardiophorus convexus (Say)
        Distribution - SD: Lawrence
Cardiophorus fenestratus LeConte
        Distribution - SD: Custer
Cardiophorus montanus Bland
        Distribution - SD: Custer