Chestnut Coloured Click Beetle vs Yellow crabgrass

Anostirus castaneus compared with Digitaria fuscescens

Key Differences

• Chestnut Coloured Click Beetle is Least Concern while Yellow crabgrass is Not Evaluated.

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Chestnut Coloured Click Beetle	Yellow crabgrass
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	Digitaria
Species	Anostirus castaneus	Digitaria fuscescens

Conservation Status

Chestnut Coloured Click Beetle

LC — Least Concern

Yellow crabgrass

NE — Not Evaluated

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Chestnut Coloured Click Beetle	Yellow crabgrass
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.

Yellow crabgrass

Habitat

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

Range

Widely distributed across Africa (Guinea, Madagascar), North America (United States), Oceania and the Pacific (5 countries), and South America (5 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.