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Species Rhopalophora meeskei
Cerambycid beetle antennae that sting - check this out!
A true sting apparatus, until recently known only in Scorpions and Aculeata, has been discovered in a third group.
The first known case of a cerambycid beetle using its antennae "to inject a secretion that causes cutaneous and subcutaneous inflammation in humans", reported in the article "Convergent evolution in the antennae of a cerambycid beetle, Onychocerus albitarsis , and the sting of a scorpion", by Amy Berkov, Nelson Rodriguez, and Pedro Centeno, has just been published online Nov. 15, 2007, by SpringerLink. The above link is to the abstract of the article. In case you cannot access the full article, you may contact me per e-mail.
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Cerambycids.com
Check out for a load of images of longhorned beetles. Granted, some of the images are of non-North American species, but it could still be a place to go to get in the ballpark for species needing IDs.
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Coleop-Terra
Photographical catalog of tropical beetles,
including topics like evolution, morphology, physiology and biogeography of tropical beetles.
I am also working on a catalog of the Holotypes of the university of Hamburg.
If you have suggestions, please let me know.
Robert Perger
Contributed by Robert74 on 24 January, 2008 - 9:03am |
Checklist of Coleoptera Known from Great Smoky Mountains National Park
This is the 2006 website for the Great Smoky Mountains ATBI Coleoptera project. We are adding species webpages as we write them and they are linked to the excel checklist. Go to the checklist page from this opening page.
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Ohio Coleopterists
This is the site of an organization called Ohio Coleopterists. Of particular interest are a number of back issues of newsletters, with articles on such topics as rearing beetles and unusual collecting methods.
As of my October 2005 visit, the site appears to be no longer updated, but I found the newsletter backfile most useful and interesting. One article described finding an unused baseball diamond populated by wasps who caught and paralyzed Buprestid beetles. The author described wasps flying from all directions with dozens and dozens of buprestids of a number of different species! Lo
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Giff Beaton's Beetle page
Giff has just (12/6/04) updated this page with a number of interesting species. He is active in Georgia, so this will be of particular interest to others in the southeast.
See also his Tiger Beetle page.
Contributed by Cotinis on 6 December, 2004 - 11:04pm |
Checklist of the Coleoptera of Oklahoma
Includes bibliography. This is one of a series of checklists for Oklahoma invertebrates. They are rather hard to find on the web site, so I am going to post links for each order. (There seemes not to be an overall index page.)
Contributed by Cotinis on 6 November, 2004 - 9:05pm |
The Coleopterists Society
The Coleopterists Society is an international organization devoted to the study of all aspects of systematics and biology of beetles of the world.
Contributed by Cotinis on 3 July, 2004 - 7:46am |
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