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Eudicella gralli, sometimes called the flamboyant flower beetle or striped love beetle, is a brightly coloured member of the scarab beetle family, in the subfamily known as flower beetles. Their shells seem to have a prismatic quality, refracting the ambient light to give the green of their carapace a rainbow tint.
Kateretidae also known as short-winged flower beetles are a family of beetles in the superfamily Cucujoidea. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] There are 10 extant and 4 extinct genera , and at least 40 described species .
The Curculionidae are a family of weevils, commonly called snout beetles or true weevils. They are one of the largest animal families with 6,800 genera and 83,000 [ 1 ] species described worldwide. They are the sister group to the family Brentidae .
The family Mycteridae is a small group of tenebrionoid beetles with no vernacular common name, though recent authors have coined the name palm and flower beetles. The family Mycteridae is distributed worldwide. There are about 30 genera and 160 species in three subfamilies Mycterinae, Hemipeplinae and Lacconotinae (=Eurypinae). [1]
The Mordellidae are a family of beetles commonly known as tumbling flower beetles for the typical irregular movements they make when escaping predators, or as pintail beetles due to their abdominal tip which aids them in performing these tumbling movements. [citation needed] Worldwide, there are about 1500 species. [1]
Anastrangalia sanguinolenta is a species of flower longhorn beetles belonging to the family Cerambycidae, subfamily Lepturinae.. Anastrangalia sanguinolenta. This beetle is a common species present in most of Europe and in the Near Eastern countries such as Caucasus, Transcaucasia, and Turkey, where they mainly inhabit mountainous coniferous forests.
Mecynorhina torquata is among the largest flower beetles in the world, only surpassed by the goliath beetles.It reaches about 55–85 millimetres (2.2–3.3 in) of length in the males, while the females are slightly smaller, reaching about 50–60 millimetres (2.0–2.4 in) of length.
They are colloquially called featherwing beetles, because the hindwings are narrow and feathery. [ 2 ] There are approximately 600 described species in 80 genera , [ 2 ] but large numbers of specimens in collections await description and the true number of species is likely to be much higher than this.