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Agriotes sputator
(click beetle, common)

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Agriotes sputator (click beetle, common)

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Datasheet Type(s)
Pest

Preferred Scientific Name
Agriotes sputator

Preferred Common Name
click beetle, common

Taxonomic Tree
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Metazoa
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Uniramia
Class: Insecta

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Identity

Preferred Scientific Name

Agriotes sputator (Linnaeus)

Preferred Common Name

click beetle, common

Local Common Names

Denmark: lille kornsmælder
Germany: Schnellkaefer, Gartenhumus-; Schnellkaefer, Salat-
Netherlands: Kniptor
Sweden: mindre sädesknäppare

EPPO code

AGRISU (Agriotes sputator)

Taxonomic Tree

Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Metazoa
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Uniramia
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Elateridae
Genus: Agriotes
Species: Agriotes sputator

Distribution Table

The distribution in this summary table is based on all the information available. When several references are cited, they may give conflicting information on the status. Further details may be available for individual references in the Distribution Table Details section which can be selected by going to Generate Report.

Last updated: 12 May 2022

Continent/Country/Region	Distribution	Last Reported	Origin	First Reported	Invasive	Reference	Notes
Asia
Turkey	Present					Kabalak and Özbek (2018)
Europe
Austria	Present					Staudacher et al. (2011)
Bulgaria	Present					CABI Data Mining (Undated) Furlan et al. (2001) Arnaudov et al. (2012)
Croatia	Present					Staudacher et al. (2011) Furlan et al. (2001) Tóth et al. (2003)
Czechia	Present					Št'astná and Psota (2013)
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia	Present					CABI Data Mining (Undated)
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics	Present					CABI Data Mining (Undated)
France	Present					CABI Data Mining (Undated) Staudacher et al. (2011)
Germany	Present					Staudacher et al. (2011) Furlan et al. (2001)
Hungary	Present					CABI Data Mining (Undated) Tóth et al. (2003)
Netherlands	Present					Staudacher et al. (2011)
Poland	Present					CABI Data Mining (Undated)
Romania	Present					CABI Data Mining (Undated) Furlan et al. (2001) Tóth et al. (2003)
Russia	Present					CABI Data Mining (Undated)
-Siberia	Present					CABI Data Mining (Undated)
Sweden	Present					CABI Data Mining (Undated)
Switzerland	Present					CABI Data Mining (Undated) Keller (1994)
Ukraine	Present					CABI Data Mining (Undated)
United Kingdom	Present					CABI Data Mining (Undated) Brian (1947) Leatherdale (1970) Furlan et al. (2001) Hicks and Blackshaw (2008) Staudacher et al. (2011)
-England	Present					Staudacher et al. (2011) Brian (1947) Furlan et al. (2001)
-Wales	Present					Furlan et al. (2001)
North America
Canada	Present, Localized					EPPO (2022) Fox (1961) Webster et al. (2012)
-New Brunswick	Present					EPPO (2022) Webster et al. (2012)
-Nova Scotia	Present					Fox (1961)

Natural enemies

Natural enemy	Type	Life stages	Specificity	References	Biological control in	Biological control on
Carabidae	Predator	Arthropods\|Larvae
Entomophthora elateridiphaga	Pathogen
Zoophthora elateridiphaga	Pathogen

References

EPPO, 2014. PQR database. Paris, France: European and Mediterranean Plant Protection Organization. http://www.eppo.int/DATABASES/pqr/pqr.htm

Št'astná, P., Psota, V., 2013. Arthropod diversity (Arthropoda) on abandoned apple trees. Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis, 61(5), 1405-1422. doi: 10.11118/actaun201361051405

Distribution References

Arnaudov V, Raykov S, Davidova R, Hristov H, Vasilev V, Petkov P, 2012. Monitoring of pest populations - an important element of integrated pest management of field crops. Agricultural Science and Technology. 4 (1), 77-80. http://tru.uni-sz.bg/ascitech/1_2012/017_AE_4.pdf

Brian M V, 1947. On the Ecology of Beetles of the Genus Agriotes with special Reference to A. obscurus. Journal of Animal Ecology. 16 (2), 210-224 pp. DOI:10.2307/1496

CABI Data Mining, Undated. CAB Abstracts Data Mining.,

EPPO, 2022. EPPO Global database. In: EPPO Global database, Paris, France: EPPO. 1 pp. https://gd.eppo.int/

Fox C J S, 1961. The Distribution and Abundance of Wireworms in the Annapolis Valley of Nova Scotia. Canadian Entomologist. 93 (4), 276-279. DOI:10.4039/Ent93276-4

Furlan L, Toth M, Parker W E, Ivezic M, Pancic S, Brmez M, Dobrinčić R, Igrc Barčić J, Muresan F, Subchev M et al, , , , , , , 2001. The Efficacy of the New Agriotes Sex Pheromone Traps in Detecting Wireworm Pouplation Levels in Different European Countries. [XXI IWGO Conference & VIII Diabrotica Subgroup Meeting (2001)], 293-304. https://www.bib.irb.hr/134098

Hicks H, Blackshaw R P, 2008. Differential responses of three Agriotes click beetle species to pheromone traps. Agricultural and Forest Entomology. 10 (4), 443-448. DOI:10.1111/j.1461-9563.2008.00397.x

Kabalak M, Özbek H, 2018. Research on the family Elateridae (Coleoptera) of Turkey: new distributional data, female descriptions and distributional evaluation. Transactions of the American Entomological Society. 144 (1), 143-166. http://www.bioone.org/loi/taes

Keller S, 1994. The fungus Zoophthora elateridiphaga as an important mortality factor of the click beetle Agriotes sputator. Journal of Invertebrate Pathology. 63 (1), 90-91. DOI:10.1006/jipa.1994.1014

Leatherdale D, 1970. The arthropod hosts of entomogenous fungi in Britain. Entomophaga. 15 (4), 419-435. DOI:10.1007/BF02370311

Št'astná P, Psota V, 2013. Arthropod diversity (Arthropoda) on abandoned apple trees. Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis. 61 (5), 1405-1422. DOI:10.11118/actaun201361051405

Staudacher K, Pitterl P, Furlan L, Cate P C, Traugott M, 2011. PCR-based species identification of Agriotes larvae. Bulletin of Entomological Research. 101 (2), 201-210. DOI:10.1017/S0007485310000337

Tóth M, Furlan L, Yatsynin V G, Ujváry I, Szarukán I, Imrei Z, Tolasch T, Francke W, Jossi W, 2003. Identification of pheromones and optimization of bait composition for click beetle pests (Coleoptera: Elateridae) in Central and Western Europe. Pest Management Science. 59 (4), 417-425. DOI:10.1002/ps.629

Webster R, Sweeney J, DeMerchant I, 2012. New Coleoptera records from New Brunswick, Canada: Elateridae. ZooKeys. 93-113. DOI:10.3897/zookeys.179.2603

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