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Family Ochodaeidae - Sand-loving Scarab Beetles


Nomenclatural changes in the Nearctic Ochodaeinae and description of two new genera (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea: Ochodaeidae)
By Paulsen M.J.
Insecta Mundi 0021: 1-13, 2007
The source on which the treatment of the Ochodaeidae in the Guide is based -- and otherwise an interesting and useful paper about an interesting yet quite useless group... (among the cutest ones ever, too, if you ask me.)
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A new species of Parochodaeus Nikolajev from the southwestern United States (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea: Ochodaeidae)
By M.J. Paulsen
Insecta Mundi 0184: 1-4, 2011

Aquatic Hydrophilidae and Hydraenidae of Wisconsin (Coleoptera). I.
By William L. Hilsenhoff
The Great Lakes Entomologist, 1995
Full title: Aquatic Hydrophilidae and Hydraenidae of Wisconsin (Coleoptera). I. Introduction, Key to Genera of Adults, and Distribution, Habitat, Life Cycle, and Identification of Species of Helophorus Fabricius, Hydrochus Leach, and Berosus Leach (Hydrophilidae), and Hydraenidae

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Saprophagous Scarabaeidae (Coleoptera) of North Dakota
By Helgesen R.G., Post R.L.
Schafer-Post Series: North Dakota Insects Publication 7, NDSU. 60 pp., 1967

The phytophagous Scarabaeidae and Troginae (Coleoptera) of North Dakota
By Lago P.K., Post R.L., Oseto C.Y.
Schafer-Post Series: North Dakota Insects Publication 12, NDSU. 131 pp., 1979

The Scarabaeoid beetles of San Diego County, California. Part I. Introduction...
By McPeak R.H., Oberbauer T.A.
Proceedings of the San Diego Society of Natural History 40: 1-24, 2008
Full title: The Scarabaeoid beetles of San Diego County, California. Part I. Introduction and diagnosis of families Glaresidae, Trogidae, Pleocomidae, Geotrupidae, Ochodaeidae, Hybosoridae, and Glaphyridae

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Guide d’identification des Scarabées du Québec (Coleoptera : Scarabaeoidea)
By Martin Hardy
Entomofaune du Quebec inc, 2014
To order online: http://entomofaune.qc.ca/Volumes.html

In french BUT all keys are both in french and english. Well done!

Flight activity and relative abundance of phytophagous scarabs (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea) from two locations in Florida
By Buss, E.A.
Florida Entomologist 89: 32-40., 2006
Online here