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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Western blood-red ladybeetle -
Pidonia scripta -
Yellow-marked Staphylinus -
Shining Leaf Chafer - Ceroplophana malaysiana -
Shining Leaf Chafer - Mimela chrysoprasa -
Shining Leaf Chafer - Mimela insularis -
Iris Weevil - Mononychus vulpeculus -
Subfamily Galerucinae -
Chrysolina hyperici (Forster, 1771) -
Clavate Tortoise Beetle - Plagiometriona clavata -
Changeable Flower Longhorn - Trachysida mutabilis -
Opsilia coerulescens (Scopoli, 1763), female -
Ptosima undecimmaculata (Herbst, 1784) -
Beetle - Plateumaris shoemakeri -
Ptinus (Pseudoptinus) lichenum Marsham, 1802 -
Calamobius filum (Rossi, 1790) -
Dasytes sp -
Hoplia (Hoplia) argentea (Poda, 1761) -
Iberodorcadion (Iberodorcadion) fuliginator (Linnaeus, 1758) -
Stag Beetle - Odontolabis cypri -
Lixus (Epimeces) filiformis (Fabricius, 1781) -
Enicopus ater (Fabricius, 1787) -
Weevil - Paratasis elegans -
Weevil - Rhinoscapha dohrni