Chestnut Coloured Click Beetle vs Digitgrass

Anostirus castaneus compared with Digitaria eriantha

Key Differences

• Chestnut Coloured Click Beetle is Least Concern while Digitgrass is Not Evaluated.

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Chestnut Coloured Click Beetle	Digitgrass
Kingdom	Animalia (Animals)	Plantae (Plants)
Phylum	Arthropoda (Arthropods)	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)
Class	Insecta (Insects)	Liliopsida (Monocots)
Order	Coleoptera (Beetles)	Poales (Grasses)
Family	Elateridae	Poaceae (Grass Family)
Genus	Anostirus	Digitaria
Species	Anostirus castaneus	Digitaria eriantha

Conservation Status

Chestnut Coloured Click Beetle

LC — Least Concern

Digitgrass

NE — Not Evaluated

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Chestnut Coloured Click Beetle	Digitgrass
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.

Digitgrass

Habitat

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

Range

Widely distributed across Asia (Bhutan, India), North America (4 countries), Oceania and the Pacific (Australia, Palau), and South America (Brazil, Colombia).

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.