Chestnut Coloured Click Beetle vs Lemon grass

Anostirus castaneus compared with Cymbopogon citratus

Key Differences

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

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Chestnut Coloured Click Beetle	Lemon grass
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	Cymbopogon
Species	Anostirus castaneus	Cymbopogon citratus

Conservation Status

Chestnut Coloured Click Beetle

LC — Least Concern

Lemon grass

NE — Not Evaluated

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Chestnut Coloured Click Beetle	Lemon grass
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.

Lemon grass

Habitat

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

Range

Widely distributed across Africa (10 countries), Asia (5 countries), North America (4 countries), Oceania and the Pacific (Australia, Marshall Islands, Papua New Guinea), and South America (10 countries).

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.