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

Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera)

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

Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera)

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As of my October 2005 visit, the site appears to be no longer updated, but I found the newsletter backfile most useful and interesting.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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