Agriotes

{{Short description|Genus of beetles}}

{{Taxobox|image=Agriotes.gallicus.jpg

|image_caption=Agriotes gallicus

|regnum=Animalia

|phylum=Arthropoda

|classis=Insecta

|ordo=Coleoptera

|familia=Elateridae

|subfamilia=Elaterinae

|tribus=Pomachiliini

|subtribus=Cardiorhinina

|genus=Agriotes

|genus_authority=Eschscholtz, 1829{{cite web|url=http://www.faunaeur.org/full_results.php?id=235399|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110622073716/http://www.faunaeur.org/full_results.php?id=235399|url-status=dead|archive-date=June 22, 2011|title=Fauna Europaea : Taxon Details|publisher=}}{{cite web|url=http://www.ubio.org/NZ/detail.php?d=1&uid=5361|title=Nomenclator Zoologicus Record Detail|publisher=}}

|type_species=Agriotes sputator

|type_species_authority=Linnaeus, 1758

|subdivision_ranks=Subgenera

|subdivision=

{{species list

| Agriodrastus | Reitter, 1911

| Agriotes | Eschscholtz, 1829

| Tinecoides | Gurjeva, 1979

| Tinecus | Fleutieux, 1940

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|synonyms=

Subgenus Agriotes

{{species list

| Agriotus | Severin, 1949 (in error)

| Cataphagus | Stephens, 1830

| Fructuarius | Gistl, 1848 (replacement name for Agriotes)

| Hemirhypus | Dillwyn, 1829 (preoccupied)

| Lepidotus | Gistel, 1834 (preoccupied by Lepidotus Asso, 1801)

| Pedetes | Kirby, 1837 (preoccupied by Pedetes Illiger, 1811)

}}

Subgenus Tinecus

{{species list

| Timecus | Leseigneur, 1972 (in error)

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Agriotes is a genus of beetles in the family Elateridae which includes numerous species, many of which are found in the Americas, Asia and much of Europe.{{cite web|url=http://insects.tamu.edu/research/collection/hallan/test/Arthropoda/Insects/Coleoptera/Family/Elateridae.txt |title=Archived copy |access-date=2012-10-22 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121022182339/http://insects.tamu.edu/research/collection/hallan/test/Arthropoda/Insects/Coleoptera/Family/Elateridae.txt |archive-date=2012-10-22 }}{{Cite web|url=https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=113882|title=ITIS Standard Report Page: Agriotes|website=www.itis.gov}}{{cite web|url=http://www.organismnames.com/details.htm?lsid=116355|title=ION: Index to Organism Names|author=Peter Hollas|publisher=}}{{cite encyclopedia|url=http://www.eol.org/pages/110535|title=Agriotes - Information on Agriotes - Encyclopedia of Life|encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of Life}}{{cite web|url=http://www.ubio.org/browser/details.php?namebankID=356936|title=Namebank Record Detail|publisher=}}{{cite web|url=http://starcentral.mbl.edu/microscope/portal.php?pagetitle%3Dclassification%26BLCHID%3D64-191 |title=Micro*scope - version 6.0 - March, 2006 |access-date=2010-04-05 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110718090200/http://starcentral.mbl.edu/microscope/portal.php?pagetitle=classification&BLCHID=64-191 |archive-date=2011-07-18 }}