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Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects is a series of books produced by the Royal Entomological Society (RES). The aim of the Handbooks is to provide illustrated identification keys to the insects of Britain, together with concise morphological, biological and distributional information.
Volume one (xxviii + 622 pages) consists of the text (largely a set of identification keys, with brief status notes for each species). Volume two (194 pages) contains 2040 line-drawings of whole beetles and features referred to in the keys (390 of these were taken from Spry and Shuckard's 1840 publication The British Coleoptera Delineated but the remainder were drawn by Joy).
Anthrenus museorum – museum beetle; Anthrenus olgae; Anthrenus pimpinellae; Anthrenus sarnicus – Guernsey carpet beetle; Anthrenus scrophulariae – common carpet beetle; Anthrenus verbasci – varied carpet beetle; Attagenus brunneus; Attagenus cyphonoides; Attagenus fasciatus – tobacco seed beetle; Attagenus pellio – fur beetle ...
Aulacophora foveicollis, the red pumpkin beetle, is a species of beetle in the family Chrysomelidae. It is a foliar pest of members of the Cucurbitaceae , particularly the pumpkin . [ 2 ] It is also a pest of millets in India.
The following is a list of the ground beetles recorded in Britain, [1] organised by subfamily (-inae endings) and by tribe (-ini endings). For other beetle families, see the main list of beetle species recorded in Britain .
The scarlet lily beetle, red lily beetle, or lily leaf beetle (Lilioceris lilii), is a leaf beetle that eats the leaves, stem, buds, and flowers, of lilies, fritillaries and other members of the family Liliaceae. It lays its eggs most often on Lilium and Fritillaria species.
Black-spotted longhorn beetle [3]: 300 Europe, Russia, and Caucasia. [56] Common throughout Great Britain, excepting only parts of Scotland. [3]: 300 Rutpela maculata (Poda, 1761) Black-and-yellow longhorn beetle [3]: 301 Europe and western Asia. [57] Common through England except in the Pennines and in far southern Scotland.
The palm weevil Rhynchophorus ferrugineus is one of two species of snout beetle known as the red palm weevil, Asian palm weevil or sago palm weevil.The adult beetles are relatively large, ranging between 2 and 4 centimetres (1 and 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 inches) long, and are usually a rusty red colour—but many colour variants exist and have often been classified as different species (e.g., R. vulneratus).