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Menu Home Subjects Covers About Contact Order Coleoptera (BEETLES) Click on the thumbnail to see more of each species. Suborder Adephaga (GROUND & WATER BEETLES) Family Carabidae (GROUND BEETLES) Brachinae (BOMBARDIER BEETLES) Carabinae Cicindelinae (TIGER BEETLES) Elaphrinae (MARSH BEETLES) Harpalinae Nebrinae Omophroninae Patrobinae Scaritinae Trechinae (MINUTE GROUND BEETLES) Noteridae (BURROWING WATER BEETLE) Dytiscidae (PREDACEOUS DIVING […]
Menu Home Subjects Covers About Contact “Buprestidae is a family of beetles known as jewel beetles or metallic wood-boring beetles because of their glossy iridescent colors. Larvae of this family are known as flatheaded borers. The family is among the largest of the beetles, with 15,500 species known in 775 genera. In addition, almost 100 fossil species have been described. The
Menu Home Subjects Covers About Contact Cerambycidae is a family of beetles commonly referred to as longhorns, due to their very long antennae. These may be as long as or even longer than the body, although subfamily Parandrinae has atypically, short antennae. There are 10 subfamilies and over 26,000 species. The family name comes from
BEETLE FAMILIES Cicindelinae TIGER BEETLES Carabidae GROUND BEETLES Haliplidae CRAWLING WATER BEETLES Dytiscidae PREDACEOUS DIVING BEETLES Gyrinidae WHIRLIGIG BEETLES Histeridae HISTER BEETLES Hydrophilidae WATER SCAVENGER BEETLES Silphidae CARRION BEETLES Agyrtidae PRIMITIVE CARRION BEETLES Dermestidae DERMESTID BEETLES Scaphidiinae SHINING FUNGUS BEETLES Staphylinidae ROVE BEETLES Byturidae FRUITWORM BEETLES Cleridae CHECKERED BEETLES Melyridae SOFT-WINGED FLOWER BEETLES Peltidae PELTID
