Chestnut Coloured Click Beetle vs Glaucous Aster

Anostirus castaneus compared with Symphyotrichum laeve

Key Differences

Chestnut Coloured Click Beetle is Least Concern while Glaucous Aster is Not Evaluated.

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Chestnut Coloured Click Beetle	Glaucous Aster
Kingdom	Animalia (Animals)	Plantae (Plants)
Phylum	Arthropoda (Arthropods)	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)
Class	Insecta (Insects)	Magnoliopsida (Dicots)
Order	Coleoptera (Beetles)	Asterales (Daisies & Sunflowers)
Family	Elateridae	Asteraceae (Daisy Family)
Genus	Anostirus	Symphyotrichum
Species	Anostirus castaneus	Symphyotrichum laeve

Conservation Status

Chestnut Coloured Click Beetle

LC — Least Concern

Glaucous Aster

NE — Not Evaluated

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Chestnut Coloured Click Beetle	Glaucous Aster
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.

Glaucous Aster

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial habitats from tropical forests to temperate regions.

Range

Widely distributed across Africa (Seychelles), Asia (Turkey), Europe (Denmark, Norway, Sweden), North America (United States), 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.