Chestnut Coloured Click Beetle vs Marble-fruit Prickly-pear

Anostirus castaneus compared with Opuntia strigil

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Chestnut Coloured Click Beetle	Marble-fruit Prickly-pear
Kingdom	Animalia (Animals)	Plantae (Plants)
Phylum	Arthropoda (Arthropods)	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)
Class	Insecta (Insects)	Magnoliopsida (Dicots)
Order	Coleoptera (Beetles)	Caryophyllales (Caryophyllales)
Family	Elateridae	Cactaceae
Genus	Anostirus	Opuntia
Species	Anostirus castaneus	Opuntia strigil

Conservation Status

Chestnut Coloured Click Beetle

LC — Least Concern

Marble-fruit Prickly-pear

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Chestnut Coloured Click Beetle	Marble-fruit Prickly-pear
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.

Marble-fruit Prickly-pear

Habitat

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

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.