Wireworms (Elateridae): Shiny, brown, hard larvae up to 1.5.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 10] Reference

Mesosternal cavity: in Elateridae, the opening into which the prosternal spine or mucro is fitted.    From Wordnik.com.  [Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology] Reference

Manubrium: in Coleoptera: that part of the mesosternum in Elateridae which forms the process for fitting into the cavity of the prothorax: in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology] Reference

Wireworms are the subterranean larval stage of click beetles (Coleoptera: Elateridae).    From Wordnik.com.  [Southeast Farm Press RSS Feed] Reference

Some other groups of beetles, as the Elateridae and Eucnemidae, also deceptively mimic malacoderms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Darwinism (1889)] Reference

In Coleoptera I made large collections, but the extensive families of the Elateridae, Lamellicorns, and others are still uncatalogued, and very many species remain to be described.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Naturalist in Nicaragua] Reference

(Elateridae) -- that eat the roots of farm crops, have well-armoured bodies, but their shape is elongate, cylindrical, worm-like; and their legs are relatively short, the build of the insect being adapted for rapid motion through the soil.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life-Story of Insects] Reference

I believe that if all extinct insect-forms could be collected, we should have gradations from the Elateridae, with their highly and constantly luminous thoraxes, and from the Lampyridae, with their highly luminous abdomens, to some ancient insects occasionally luminous like the centipede.    From Wordnik.com.  [More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1] Reference

Sekuliæ R. MONITORING OF WIREWORMS (Coleoptera: Elateridae) DENSITY - A BASIS FOR RATIONAL INSECTICIDES USE.    From Wordnik.com.  [Refinance 2nd Mortgage] Reference

(Elateridae), and many others.    From Wordnik.com.  [Darwinism (1889)] Reference

Elateridae, luminous thorax of.    From Wordnik.com.  [More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2] Reference

C second leoptera: Elateridae) DENSITY credit - A BASIS FOR RATIONAL-INSECTICIDES USE.    From Wordnik.com.  [Refinance 2nd Mortgage] Reference

Elateridae.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Naturalist in Nicaragua] Reference

Elateridae, 52.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life-Story of Insects] Reference

The most frequent finds are beetles that include click beetles Elateridae (15.8%), weevil Curculionidae (12.8%), jewel beetles Buprestidae (8.4%), dung beetles Scarabaeidae (3.9%), stag beetles Lucanidae (1.7%), ground beetles Carabidae (1.4%), water beetles Dascillidae (1.4%), longhorn beetles Cerambycidae (0.5%), and rove beetles Staphylinidae (0.26%).    From Wordnik.com.  [Messel Pit fossil site, Germany] Reference