Cebrioninae [SEP] parent taxon
Cebrionini
Cebrionini is a tribe of click beetles from the Elateridae family; formerly ranked as a subfamily, they are now considered a tribe within the subfamily Elaterinae.
Distribution.
Cebrionines live in most parts of the world, but they are absent from Australia and New Zealand. They are particularly abundant in the more arid parts of the Holarctic Region, Nearctic, Palearctic, Neotropical, Afrotropical, Oriental.
Description.
Description Biological.
Male cebrionines fly at night and may be attracted to lights. In several genera
Cebrio gigas
Cebrio gigas is a species of beetle of the subfamily Cebrioninae from a family of click beetles. Extended in Europe (in the south France, north-east of Spain, in some places in the continental Italy and Sicily).
Head, and prothorax black with blue shiny sheen. Antenna long 11-segmented, with short erect hairs. Head, pronotum, and elytron are covered with light surrounding hairs. Posterior angles of pronotum drawn out into long, brownish tongue. Elytra brown. Legs and feet are black