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Species Batyle ignicollis - Fire-necked Batyle Beetle

Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Water, Rove, Scarab, Longhorn, Leaf and Snout Beetles (Polyphaga) » Long-horned and Leaf Beetles (Chrysomeloidea) » Longhorned Beetles (Cerambycidae)

A Photographic Catalog of the Cerambycidae of the New World

By Larry G. Bezark.
This should be a must-see for checking Cerambycid ID's against photos. It is like having a 50 museum collections on your computer.

Contributed by Sean McCann on 9 September, 2009 - 9:10am

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.

Contributed by Hartmut Wisch on 29 November, 2007 - 10:23pm

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.

Contributed by Eric R. Eaton on 4 October, 2004 - 11:43pm

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Types of Beetles

A growing list covering Types of Beetles with a broad family emphasis.

Contributed by greenbugs on 23 November, 2009 - 11:49pm

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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

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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.

Contributed by Victoria Bayless on 28 November, 2006 - 11:13am

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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

Contributed by Stephen Cresswell on 30 October, 2005 - 3:12pm

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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

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