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