Chestnut Coloured Click Beetle vs Vegetable fern

Anostirus castaneus compared with Diplazium esculentum

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Chestnut Coloured Click Beetle	Vegetable fern
Kingdom	Animalia (Animals)	Plantae (Plants)
Phylum	Arthropoda (Arthropods)	Tracheophyta
Class	Insecta (Insects)	Polypodiopsida (Polypodiopsida)
Order	Coleoptera (Beetles)	Polypodiales (Polypodiales)
Family	Elateridae	Athyriaceae
Genus	Anostirus	Diplazium
Species	Anostirus castaneus	Diplazium esculentum

Conservation Status

Chestnut Coloured Click Beetle

LC — Least Concern

Vegetable fern

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Chestnut Coloured Click Beetle	Vegetable fern
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.

Vegetable fern

Habitat

Typically found in moist, shaded forest floors and tropical canopies.

Range

Distributed across Australia, Portugal, South Africa, and United States.

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.