Sphaenelater

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Endopterygota
Superordo: Coleopterida
Ordo: Coleoptera
Subordo: Polyphaga
Infraordo: Elateriformia
Superfamilia: Elateroidea

Familia: Elateridae
Subfamilia: Lissominae
Tribus: Protelaterini
Genus: Sphaenelater
Species: S. collaris – S. lineicollis – S. nitidofuscus

[list of species after Gourlay (1950: 193)]
Name

Sphaenelater Schwarz, 1902
Synonyms

Geranus Sharp, 1877 [nec Geranus Bonaparte, 1854]
Geraniella Gourlay, 1950
Sphaenelater Schwarz, 1902

[list of synonyms after Gourlay (1961: 49)]
Type species

Sphaenelater Schwarz: Sphaenelater nigricornis Schwarz, 1902 [=Elater lineicollis White, 1846], by monotypy
Geranus Sharp: Geranus crassus Sharp, 1877 [=Elater lineicollis White, 1846], by subsequent designation by Hyslop (1921: 646)

References

Gourlay, E.S. 1950: Auckland Island Coleoptera. Transactions and proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 78: 171–202. BUGZ
Gourlay, E.S. 1961: A generic correction in the family Elateridae (Coleoptera). New Zealand entomologist, 2(6): 49. PDF
Hyslop, J.A. 1921: Genotypes of the elaterid beetles of the world. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 58: 621–673. BUGZ
Schwarz, O. 1902: Ueber die Elateriden-Gattungen Protelater Sharp und Anaspasis Cand. und ihre systematische Stellung nebst Beschreibung einer neuen Gattung und Art. Deutsche entomologische Zeitschrift, 46: 364–366. BUGZ
Schwarz, O. 1906: Aenderung einiger species-namen und synonymische berichtigungen über elateriden. Deutsche entomologische Zeitschrift, 50: 326. BUGZ
Sharp, D. 1877: On the Elateridae of New Zealand. Annals and magazine of natural history (4), 19: 396–413, 469-487. Internet Archive BHL

Additional references

Evenhuis, N.L. 2003: Publication and dating of the journals forming the Annals and Magazine of Natural History and the Journal of Natural History. Zootaxa, 385: 1–68. Abstract & excerpt
Muona, J. 1993: Review of the phylogeny, classification and biology of the family Eucnemidae (Coleoptera). Entomologica scandinavica, supplement 44 [p. 45, 'Notes: Miss C. M. F. von Hayek (pers. com.) has pointed out to me that Sharp's article "On the Elateridae of New Zealand", Annls Mag. nat. Hist. (4) 19:469-487, was actually published in 1887, not in 1877, as cited ...']