Coleoptera

The Order Coleoptera (or beetles) forms the largest group of insects worldwide with about 370,000 described species. In addition many others have been recognised as new but have not yet been described and a conservative estimate is that at least the same number are still awaiting discovery.

A photograph of a rose chafer. A well known and attractive scarab beetle.

Other names for (or types of) Coleoptera include:

• Beetles

Related terms

• Campodeiform
• Carabiform
• Click beetle
• Coleopterist
• Cursorial
• Darkling beetle
• Dermestidae
• Elateriform
• Elytra
• Eruciform
• Goliath beetle
• Insects
• Ladybird
• Lampyridae
• Leaf miner
• Onisciform
• Reflex bleeding
• Rhinoceros beetle
• Rostrum
• Scarab
• Scarabaeiform
• Weevil
• Woodworm
• Woolly bear

Related groups of terms

• Insect Orders

Related pages on this web site

• Beetles - Order Coleoptera

See other words beginning with C