How does the click beetle "click" jump work?

The spring-loaded "click" of a click beetle is one of the most unique ways of jumping in the insect world! Once I heard about how they do it, and the latch they use to power their jump, it immediately became a thing I just had to film in maco slow-motion detail!

For more about these beetles check out these references:
Bolmin et al. (2019) "Latching of the click beetle (Coleoptera: Elateridae) thoracic hinge enabled by the morphology and mechanics of conformal structures" https://jeb.biologists.org/content/222/12/jeb196683

Evans (1972) "The jump of the click beetle (Coleoptera, Elateridae)—a preliminary study" https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-7998.1972.tb03115.x

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