Chestnut Coloured Click Beetle vs crested arrowhead

Anostirus castaneus compared with Sagittaria cristata

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Chestnut Coloured Click Beetle	crested arrowhead
Kingdom	Animalia (Animals)	Plantae (Plants)
Phylum	Arthropoda (Arthropods)	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)
Class	Insecta (Insects)	Liliopsida (Monocots)
Order	Coleoptera (Beetles)	Alismatales (Alismatales)
Family	Elateridae	Alismataceae
Genus	Anostirus	Sagittaria
Species	Anostirus castaneus	Sagittaria cristata

Conservation Status

Chestnut Coloured Click Beetle

LC — Least Concern

crested arrowhead

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Chestnut Coloured Click Beetle	crested arrowhead
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

Chestnut Coloured Click Beetle

Habitat

Typically found in virtually all terrestrial and freshwater habitats.

Range

Distributed across Belgium, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and Switzerland.

crested arrowhead

Habitat

Typically found in grasslands, wetlands, forests, and cultivated landscapes.

Range

Found in Canada.

Chestnut Coloured Click Beetle

The Chestnut Coloured Click Beetle (Anostirus castaneus) is a species in the genus Anostirus. It is currently classified as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List. Typically found in virtually all terrestrial and freshwater habitats.