Position in a system
| system | Vitae - living organisms |
| tribus | Drilinae Blanchard, 1845 ! |
| domain | Eukaryota Whittaker & Margulis, 1978 - lifeforms with nucletic cells |
| superregnum | Unikonta |
| system | Opisthokonta Cavalier-Smith, 1987 |
| kingdom | Animalia Linnaeus, 1758 - animals |
| subregnum | Eumetazoa Butschli, 1910 |
| divisio | Bilateria Hatschek, 1888 - bilaterians |
| subdivisio | Protostomia Grobben, 1908 - protostomes |
| phylum | Arthropoda Gravenhorst, 1843 - arthropods |
| subphylum | Hexapoda Blainville, 1816 - hexapods |
| class | Insecta Linnaeus, 1758 - insects |
| subclass | Pterygota Lang, 1888 |
| infraclass | Neoptera Martynov, 1923 |
| cohors | Endopterygota Sharp, 1898 |
| superorder | Coleopteroidea Handlirsch, 1903 |
| order | Coleoptera Linnaeus, 1758 - beetles |
| suborder | Polyphaga Emery, 1886 |
| infraorder | Elateriformia Crowson, 1960 |
| superfamily | Elateroidea Leach, 1815 |
| family | Elateridae Leach, 1815 - click beetles |
| subfamily | Agrypninae Candèze, 1857 |
| tribus | Drilini Blanchard, 1845 - false firefly beetles |
| genus | Drilus Olivier, 1790 |
| species | Drilus rufipes (Baudi, 1871) |