Beetle
common names
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(See below for common names arranged
alphabetically by family name)
Family names.
|
Common name
|
Anobiidae |
Biscuit beetle, drugstore beetle, tobacco beetle, furniture beetle |
Anthicidae
|
Ant beetles
|
Apionidae
|
Leaf weevils |
Aspidytidae |
Cliff water beetles |
Attelabidae |
Leaf-rolling weevils |
Bolboceratidae |
Dor beetles |
Bostrychidae |
Auger borers, shot-hole borers |
Brachyceridae |
Lily weevils |
Brentidae |
Primitive/ Cycad weevils |
Buprestidae
|
Jewel beetles |
Carabidae
|
Ground beetles |
Cerambycidae
|
Long Horn beetles |
Chrysomelidae
|
Leaf
beetles |
Cleridae |
Chequered beetles |
Coccinellidae
|
Ladybird beetles |
Cupedidae |
|
Curculionidae
|
Weevils |
Dermestidae
|
Carpet beetle, museum beetle |
Discolomatidae |
|
Drilidae |
Drilid beetles |
Dryophtheridae |
Rice weevils |
Dytiscidae
|
Water
beetles, diving beetles |
Elateridae
|
Click beetles |
Gyrinidae
|
Whirligig beetles |
Histeridae |
Steel beetles, Hister beetles |
Hydrophilidae |
Water scavenger beetles |
Lampyridae
|
Fireflies, glow-worms |
Lucanidae
|
Stag beetles |
Lycidae
|
Net-winged beetles |
Lymexylidae |
Ship-timber beetles |
Meloidae
|
CMR beetles (Cape Mounted Rifles),
blister beetles |
Melyridae
|
Soft-winged flower beetles |
Nitidulidae |
Pollen beetles, sap beetles |
Ptinidae |
Spider beetles |
Rhipiceridae
|
Comb beetles
|
Rhipiphoridae
|
Hump back beetles |
Scarabaeidae
|
Fruit chafers, dung beetles, monkey beetles
|
Scolytidae |
Bark beetles |
Scydmaenidae |
Ant-like stone beetles |
Silphidae |
Carrion beetles |
Staphylinidae
|
Rove beetles |
Tenebrionidae
|
Toktokkie beetles, darkling
beetles |
Trogidae
|
Hide beetles, skin and hide
beetles |
Trogossitidae
|
Gnawing beetles |
Page by Margie Cochrane
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