Beetle

Adephaga
Archostemata
Myxophaga
Polyphaga
''many subgroups'':
see ''Subgroups of the order Coleoptera'' Beetles (order Coleoptera) are one of the main groups of insects. The order (biology) has more species in it than any other order in the entire animal kingdom. 40% of all insect species are beetles (about 350,000 species), and new species are regularly discovered. The wings of beetles are transformed into hard shells, called elytra. These elytra form an armour protecting the abdomen and the sensitive hindwings. The forewings are not used (at least not actively flapped) in flight, but they must (in most species) be raised in order to move the hindwings. After landing, the hindwings are folded below the elytra. Most beetles can fly, but few can match the aerobatic proficiency of some other groups, e.g. fly, and many species only fly if absolutely necessary. Some beetles have elytra that have grown together and cannot fly at all; a few have lost their wings altogether. Some beetle larvae (young) are leaf miners. Beetles can be found in almost all biomes, but are not known to occur in the sea or in the polar regions. Beetles are endopterygotes with complete metamorphosis. The larva of a beetle is called a grub. When J. B. S. Haldane, a United Kingdom geneticist, was asked what his studies of nature revealed about God, he replied, "An inordinate fondness for beetles". The study of beetles is called coleopterology, and its practitioners coleopterists. See list of notable coleopterists. == Notable types == Well-known types of beetles include: * bark beetle * Passalidae * click beetle * bombardier beetle * Colorado potato beetle * firefly * ground beetle * Japanese beetle * ladybird beetle (or ladybug or lady beetle) * Mountain Pine Beetle * scarab beetle * Spanish fly (actually a beetle) * stag beetle * water beetle * weevil ** boll weevil ** giraffe weevil * Woodworm Some types of beetles are less well-known, but are problems in some areas: * Asian long-horned beetle * Citrus Long-horned beetle * Pine bark beetle In 2005, three new beetle species are named as ''Agathidium bushi'', ''Agathidium cheneyi'', and ''Agathidium rumsfeldi'' after the United States President George W. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. == Subgroups == The extraordinary number of beetle species poses special problems for Linnaean taxonomy, with some families consisting of thousands of species and needing further division into subfamilies and tribes. See Subgroups of the order Coleoptera for a complete list. Image:Goliath beetle.jpg|Goliath Beetle Image:Aphthona flava flea beetle.jpg|''Aphthona flava'' flea beetle Image:Beetle02.jpg|The Cockchafer has prominent Antenna_(biology) Image:Beetle.jpg|Beetle on a tree Image:Spotted flower chafer.jpg|Spotted Flower Chafer == Reference == * Ross H. Arnett, Jr. and Michael C. Thomas, ''American Beetles'' (CRC Press, 2001-2) == Journals == *''The Coleopterist'' (UK) == External links == * http://www.coleopterist.org * http://www.koleopterologie.de/gallery - Gallery of middle-European beetles Beetles Insects mg:Borera

Beetle

Hello all! What about placing a new entry or section on this page about the VW Beetle? Is it a good ideia? What do you users and/or administrators feel about this? Regards, LNPerdig�o ---- Something's got to be done about that table... it might be a browser specific thing, but I see the table going down, down, and down, with the usual links and stuff that belong at the bottom of the page cutting right across near the top of the "Families" section, and the picture is even further down than the table. I'll try to fix it, but I can't test with other browsers at the moment, so if you're coming here with your IE or whatever, wondering why I mangled the page that way, this would be why. For the record, I'm using Galeon-1.2.10/Mozilla-1.3. -- User:JohnOwens 22:18 May 6, 2003 (UTC) :FWIW, in IE the table still looks the same (i.e., it looks correct, no text crossing it) but the picture now occurs after the table rather than on the left of it, which is now blank space. Not as nice, but since I know nothing about how to fix it, I leave it to others. -- User:Someone else 22:30 May 6, 2003 (UTC) :: Arrggh! I was hoping to fix that while I was at it too, because on mine, I saw the picture after the table before, but on the left of the table right under the text the way I had it, and now after Infrogmation's and Tarquin's edits, it's back on the bottom again. There's got to be a right way that works for both, doesn't there? Please? -- User:JohnOwens 22:51 May 6, 2003 (UTC) :: Infrogmation: when those
s aren't in there, Mozilla sends the picture to the bottom so it can wrap further before reaching an edge, apparently. With the
s, it wraps at a shorter point (of course) and so the picture can fit in next to the table (I'd like to hear from someone at 800x600 about this, or I suppose I could *gasp* shrink my window). Would you mind terribly leaving those in? They don't break the text flow terribly, since they come after commas anyway. -- User:JohnOwens 22:56 May 6, 2003 (UTC) ---- "Speciose" is a real word used by taxonomists, entomologists, and such, but it's jargony. No objection to the copyedit, just noting this for reference. User:Vicki Rosenzweig 02:08, 30 Sep 2003 (UTC) ---- I'm contemplating doing some beetle families, and the first thing that strikes me about this is that this would be a good candidate for moving the long family list from taxobox to article inline. Anybody have any objections? User:Stan Shebs 07:01, 31 Dec 2003 (UTC) I did as you suggested on the layout, Stan, now go to it! Too many red links here at present. The text of the entry could use some expansion too (speaking from a layout point of view, that is, I am not qualified to speak about the actual content). Also, we should find an image with more contrast for the taxobox. In fact I just tried to swap the two images, using a cropped version of the in-text icture for the box, but I find that upload is disabled! Something to do with the server problems, I presume. User:Tannin 08:33, 31 Dec 2003 (UTC) :Thanks! Library had a copy of latest ''American Beetles'', which has good current writeups of the 131 families. User:Stan Shebs 15:02, 31 Dec 2003 (UTC)

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