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Rhagonycha fulva, the common red soldier beetle, also misleadingly known as the bloodsucker beetle, [3] [4] and popularly known in England as the hogweed bonking beetle [5] is a species of soldier beetle (Cantharidae).
The Carabidae (ground beetles) of Britain and Ireland 1st Vol 4 Pt 2 1974 Lindroth, C.H 148 The Carabidae (ground beetles) of Britain and Ireland 2nd Vol 4 Pt 2 2007 Luff, M. iv, 247 Coleoptera: Hydradephaga: Vol 4 Pt 3 1953 Balfour-Browne, F. 33 Keys to adults of the water beetles of Britain and Ireland (Part 1) Vol 4 Pt 5 2011
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 .
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 ...
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).
Note: the family Carabidae (ground beetles), is also part of this suborder; a list of these is at List of ground beetle (Carabidae) species recorded in Britain.
The physical variation of antennae is important for the identification of many beetle groups. The Curculionidae have elbowed or geniculate antennae. Feather like flabellate antennae are a restricted form found in the Rhipiceridae and a few other families. The Silphidae have a capitate antennae with a spherical head at the tip.
Coccinella septempunctata, the common ladybug, the seven-spot ladybird (or, in North America, seven-spotted ladybug or "C-7" [1]), is a carnivorous beetle native to the Old World and is the most common ladybird in Europe. The beetle is also found in North America, Central and Eastern Asia and regions with a temperate climate.