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Cathartus quadricollis – square-necked grain beetle. Cryptamorpha desjardinsii – Desjardins' beetle. Dendophagus crenatus. Nausibius clavicornis. Oryzaephilus mercator – merchant grain beetle. Oryzaephilus surinamensis – saw-toothed grain beetle. Psammoecus bipunctatus. Silvanus bidentatus.
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. The series also includes several Check Lists ...
The following is a list of the ground beetles recorded in Britain, 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 English name is derived from the large and distinctive mandibles found on the males of most species, which resemble the antlers of stags.. A well-known species in much of Europe is Lucanus cervus, referred to in some European countries (including the United Kingdom) as the stag beetle; it is the largest terrestrial insect in Europe.
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).
The European chafer (Amphimallon majale; formerly classified as Rhizotrogus majalis[1]) is a beetle of the family Scarabaeidae. Formerly found only in continental Europe, this invasive species is now found at temperate latitudes in North America. The large, white grubs of A. majale feed on the roots of most cool-latitude grasses, both wild and ...
Helochares obscurus. Helochares punctatus. Hydrobius fuscipes. Limnoxenus niger. Hydrochara caraboides - lesser silver water beetle. Hydrophilus piceus - great silver water beetle. Laccobius atratus. Laccobius bipunctatus. Laccobius colon.
Beetles are insects that form the order Coleoptera (/ koʊliːˈɒptərə /), in the superorder Holometabola. Their front pair of wings are hardened into wing-cases, elytra, distinguishing them from most other insects. The Coleoptera, with about 400,000 described species, is the largest of all orders, constituting almost 40% of described ...