A catalogue of Chilean Elateridae is included with 11 subfamilies: Cebrioninae Latreille, Agrypninae Candèze, Lissominae Laporte, Semiotinae Jakobson, Campyloxeninae Costa, Pytiobiininae Hyslop, Dendrometrinae Gistel, Negastriinae Nakane and Kishii, Elaterinae Leach, Cardiophorinae Candèze, and Physodactylinae Lacordaire 1857, distributed in 52 genera and 140 species.