Beetle Mania
There are at least 400,000 species of beetles (Order Coleoptera)! It is the largest of all orders and constitutes nearly 40% of ALL described insects, and 25% of all known animal life-forms! This list is devoted to that mindblowing diversity!
Christine Young created this list 7 years ago
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Anoplotrupes stercorosus -
Fungus -eating Ladybird- Illeis galbula. The beetle and the larvae have been observed feeding on powdery mildew fungi. -
End Band Net-winged Beetle (Calopteron terminale) -
Eucalyptus chafer -
Hippopsis cf. truncatella - Hippopsis Longhorn / Serra-Pau Hippopsis (Bates, 1866) -
Pleasing Fungus Beetle- Erotylidae sp . -
Bubas bubalus- species of European dung beetle -
Astylus trifasciatus -
Grapevine Beetle - Pelidnota punctata -
Striped willow leaf beetle. -
Cycloneda sanguinea ♀ - Unspotted Ladybird Beetle (Linnaeus, 1763) -
Nanophyes marmoratus - dorsal -
Larinus planus on Spear Thistle - II, Heeswijk-Dinther, Netherlands -
Nut Weevil - Curculio sp. -
American Carrion Beetle - Necrophila americana -
The frog-legged leaf beetles, Sagra femorata Sp. -
Mettalic Blue Ladybug - Curinus coeruleus -
Tortoiseshell Beetle - Chiridopsis scalaris -
Blue Fungus Beetle (Gibbifer impressonotatus), on a large rainforest tree trunk, Loreto, Peru. -
Malachius female -
Grape Colaspis (Colaspis brunnea) -
Micrelus ericae -
Osmoderma scabra -
Soronia punctatissima