Chestnut Coloured Click Beetle vs Starfruit

Anostirus castaneus compared with Damasonium alisma

Key Differences

• Chestnut Coloured Click Beetle is Least Concern while Starfruit is Vulnerable.

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Chestnut Coloured Click Beetle	Starfruit
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	Damasonium
Species	Anostirus castaneus	Damasonium alisma

Conservation Status

Chestnut Coloured Click Beetle

LC — Least Concern

Starfruit

VU — Vulnerable

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Chestnut Coloured Click Beetle	Starfruit
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.

Starfruit

Habitat

Found across multiple habitat types including deserts and xeric shrublands, flooded grasslands and savannas, and Mediterranean forests and woodlands within the Palearctic biogeographic realm. Populations are also found in montane and highland environments at higher elevations.

Range

Distributed across Egypt and Portugal. Currently classified as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List, this species faces significant conservation challenges across its range.

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.