Drilini Blanchard, 1845

Ghahari, Hassan, Packova, Gabriela, Platia, Giuseppe & Kundrata, Robin, 2024, Updates and additions to the annotated checklist of click-beetles (Coleoptera: Elateridae) of Iran, Zootaxa 5432 (2), pp. 250-266 : 252

Tribe Drilini Blanchard, 1845

Comments. Platia & Ghahari (2016) did not include Drilini in their work. This group was formerly considered a separate family, Drilidae , due to the “cantharoid” appearance, including the soft body, the loss of the clicking mechanism, and the presence of paedomorphic females which are in many aspects similar to larvae ( Wittmer 1944, Crowson 1972, Lawrence & Newton 1995). Larvae are predators of land snails ( Baalbergen et al. 2014, 2016). This group currently contains 150 species in 15 genera ( Kovalev et al. 2019, Kundrata & Bocak 2019, Packova & Kundrata 2021, Hoffmannova & Kundrata 2022) and is classified within the subfamily Agrypninae ( Kundrata and Bocak 2011, Douglas et al. 2021,). The Iranian fauna of Drilini was revised by Packova et al. (2021).