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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Spotted Bicep Weevil - Broad-nosed weevil - Subfamily Entiminae -
Golden Beetle - Galerucinae (A galerucine leaf beetle) -
Golden jewel beetle (Chrysina resplendens) -
Jewel Beetle - Chrysochroa castelnaudi -
Green Scarab or Protaetia cuprea -
Leaf Beetle (Longitarsus dorsalis) -
Peltoschema - Leaf beetle -
Elateridae sp. -
Red-rumped Ladybird (Scymnus haemorrhoidalis) -
Click Beetle - Alaus quadrivittata -
Small Nettle Weevil (Nedyus quadrimaculatus) -
Diving Beetle - Hydaticus philippensis -
Pintail or tumbling flower beetle (Mordellidae) -
Weevil - Sternuchopsis cf nero -
Beetle - Chloridolum laotium -
Hammatostylus gronovii - side view, Caquetá, Colombia -
Darkling beetle? Caquetá, Colombia -
Nectar loving beetle - Phyllotocus scutellaris -
Lepispilus sulcicollis -
Beetle - Trachymela sp. -
Longhorn Beetle - Chloridolum accensum -
Leaf Beetle - Galerucinae -
Tiger beetle - Odontocheila sp., Caquetá, Colombia -
Leaf Beetle - Galerucini sp. ?