Assertion: click beetle | /r/HasProperty | elateridae
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text: Click Beetles (Elateridae)
text: These are elateriform larvae, and are found in the click beetle (Elateridae) and darkling beetle (Tenebrionidae) families.
text: The click beetles (Elateridae) can suddenly catapult themselves out of danger by releasing the energy stored by a click mechanism, which consists of a stout spine on the prosternum and a matching groove in the mesosternum.
text: Click beetles (Elateridae) have a hingelike joint in the body region called the thorax that enables them to snap their bodies and jump high in the air; their relatives, the Buprestidae (metallic wood borers), cannot jump but take flight very quickly.
text: Larvae of click beetles (Elateridae) are cylindrical or flat and slender and have a hard surface.