AuthorCooter, J. & Barclay M.V.L. (eds)
Year2006
TitleA Coleopterist’s handbook
ISBN0 900054 70 0
SeriesThe Amateur Entomolgist
TypeBook/Report
SourceThe Amateur Entomolgist, 11, Fourth Edition edition, 439pp, Amateur Entomologists’ Society
IllustrationsBlock of 32 plates of colour photographs bound near the centre and line drawings in the text
Review (by Malcolm Storey)

The first half of the book is a family by family account of beetles and their habits, followed by a brief, but similarly aranged, look at the larvae. This is followed by the photographic plates which include 100 photographs of representative species. The second half of the work covers techniques: field craft (including lists of associated plants bot by beetle and by plant), collecting, identification, dissection, curation and rearing of larvae.

Every amateur or professional naturalist with any interest in beetles should have this wonderful compendium of everything coleopterological.

Notes & PurposeStatusTaxonEnglishClassification
For identification, Colour photographCurrentAepus marinusa ground beetleAnimalia: Coleoptera: Carabidae
For identification, Colour photographCurrentAsaphidion curtuma ground beetleAnimalia: Coleoptera: Carabidae
For identification, Colour photographCurrentBembidion femoratuma ground beetleAnimalia: Coleoptera: Carabidae
For identification, Colour photographCurrentBlemus discusa ground beetleAnimalia: Coleoptera: Carabidae
For identification, Colour photographCurrentBlethisa multipunctataa ground beetleAnimalia: Coleoptera: Carabidae
For identification, Colour photographs of a selection of speciesCurrentCarabusa genus of ground beetlesAnimalia: Coleoptera: Carabidae
For identification, Colour photographCurrentCarabus arvensis ssp sylvaticusa ground beetleAnimalia: Coleoptera: Carabidae
For identification, Colour photographCurrentCarabus clatratusa ground beetleAnimalia: Coleoptera: Carabidae
For identification, Colour photographCurrentCarabus glabratus ssp lapponicusa ground beetleAnimalia: Coleoptera: Carabidae
For identification, Colour photographCurrentCarabus granulatus ssp hibernicusa ground beetleAnimalia: Coleoptera: Carabidae
For identification, Colour photographs of imago, larva and ovumCurrentCarabus intricatusBlue Ground BeetleAnimalia: Coleoptera: Carabidae
For identification, Colour photographCurrentCarabus monilisNecklace Ground BeetleAnimalia: Coleoptera: Carabidae
For identification, Colour photographCurrentCarabus nemoralisa ground beetleAnimalia: Coleoptera: Carabidae
For identification, Colour photographCurrentCarabus nitensa ground beetleAnimalia: Coleoptera: Carabidae
For identification, Colour photographCurrentCarabus problematicus ssp harcyniaea ground beetleAnimalia: Coleoptera: Carabidae
For identification, Colour photographCurrentCychrus caraboides ssp rostratusa ground beetleAnimalia: Coleoptera: Carabidae
For identification, Colour photographCurrentEurynebria complanataa ground beetleAnimalia: Coleoptera: Carabidae
For identification, Colour photographCurrentNotiophilus aquaticusa ground beetleAnimalia: Coleoptera: Carabidae
For identification, Colour photographCurrentPterostichus aterrimusa ground beetleAnimalia: Coleoptera: Carabidae
For identification, Colour photographCurrentCicindela campestrisGreen Tiger BeetleAnimalia: Coleoptera: Carabidae
For identification, Colour photographCurrentCillenus lateralisa ground beetleAnimalia: Coleoptera: Carabidae
For identification, Colour photographCurrentDyschirius obscurusa ground beetleAnimalia: Coleoptera: Carabidae
For identification, Colour photographCurrentElaphrus ripariusa ground beetleAnimalia: Coleoptera: Carabidae
For identification, Colour photographCurrentDemetrias imperialisa ground beetleAnimalia: Coleoptera: Carabidae
For identification, Colour photographCurrentLaemostenus complanatusa ground beetleAnimalia: Coleoptera: Carabidae
For identification, Colour photographCurrentPanagaeus bipustulatusa ground beetleAnimalia: Coleoptera: Carabidae
For identification, Colour photographCurrentPelophila borealisa ground beetleAnimalia: Coleoptera: Carabidae
For identification, Colour photographCurrentStenolophus mixtusa ground beetleAnimalia: Coleoptera: Carabidae
For identification, Colour photographCurrentRhantus exsoletusa diving beetleAnimalia: Coleoptera: Dytiscidae
For identification, Colour photograph of larvaCurrentDytiscus marginalisGreat Diving BeetleAnimalia: Coleoptera: Dytiscidae
For identification, Colour photographCurrentGraphoderus zonatusSpangled Diving BeetleAnimalia: Coleoptera: Dytiscidae
For identification, Colour photograph of larvaCurrentCtesias serraCobweb BeetleAnimalia: Coleoptera: Dermestidae
For identification, Colour photographCurrentNiptus hololeucusGolden Spider BeetleAnimalia: Coleoptera: Ptinidae
For identification, Colour photographCurrentPtilinus pectinicornisFan-bearing Wood-borerAnimalia: Coleoptera: Ptinidae
For identification, Colour photographCurrentCallidium violaceumViolet Longhorn BeetleAnimalia: Coleoptera: Cerambycidae
For identification, Colour photographCurrentClytus arietisWasp BeetleAnimalia: Coleoptera: Cerambycidae
For identification, Colour photographCurrentHylotrupes bajulusHouse Longhorn Beetle, Old House BorerAnimalia: Coleoptera: Cerambycidae
For identification, Colour photographCurrentMolorchus minorSpruce Shortwing BeetleAnimalia: Coleoptera: Cerambycidae
For identification, Colour photographCurrentPyrrhidium sanguineumWelsh Oak Longhorn BeetleAnimalia: Coleoptera: Cerambycidae
For identification, Colour photographs of male and femaleCurrentAcanthocinus aedilisTimberman BeetleAnimalia: Coleoptera: Cerambycidae
For identification, Colour photographCurrentPogonocherus hispidulusGreater Thorn-tipped Longhorn BeetleAnimalia: Coleoptera: Cerambycidae
For identification, Colour photographCurrentSaperda scalarisLadder-marked Longhorn BeetleAnimalia: Coleoptera: Cerambycidae
For identificationCurrentLeptura quadrifasciataFour-banded Longhorn BeetleAnimalia: Coleoptera: Cerambycidae
For identification, Colour photographCurrentJudolia sexmaculataThree-banded Longhorn BeetleAnimalia: Coleoptera: Cerambycidae
For identification, Colour photograph of larvaCurrentRhagiuma genus of longhorn beetlesAnimalia: Coleoptera: Cerambycidae
For identification, Colour photographCurrentStictoleptura rubraRed Longhorn BeetleAnimalia: Coleoptera: Cerambycidae
For identification, Colour photographCurrentChrysolina fastuosaDead-nettle Leaf BeetleAnimalia: Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae
For identification, Colour photographCurrentTimarcha tenebricosaBloody-nosed BeetleAnimalia: Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae
For identification, Colour photograph of larva in "pot"CurrentCryptocephalus coryliHazel Pot BeetleAnimalia: Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae
For identification, Colour photographCurrentCryptocephalus decemmaculatus10-spotted Pot Beetle, Ten-spotted Pot BeetleAnimalia: Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae
For identification, Colour photographCurrentDonacia versicoloreaa reed beetleAnimalia: Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae
For identification, Colour photographCurrentPsylliodes luridipennisLundy Cabbage Flea BeetleAnimalia: Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae
For identification, Colour photographCurrentGalerucella sagittariaea leaf beetleAnimalia: Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae
For identification, Colour photograph of green formCurrentCassida murraeaFleabane Tortoise BeetleAnimalia: Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae
For identification, Colour photograph of larvaCurrentCassida rubiginosaThistle Tortoise BeetleAnimalia: Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae
For identification, Colour photographCurrentCassida viridisGreen Tortoise BeetleAnimalia: Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae
For identification, Colour photographCurrentPilemostoma fastuosuma tortoise beetleAnimalia: Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae
For identification, Colour photographCurrentOpilo mollisa chequered beetleAnimalia: Coleoptera: Cleridae
For identification, Colour photographCurrentAnthocomus rufusa malachite beetleAnimalia: Coleoptera: Melyridae
For identification, Colour photographCurrentAnatis ocellataEyed LadybirdAnimalia: Coleoptera: Coccinellidae
For identification, Colour photograph of larvaCurrentCoccinellaa genus of ladybirdsAnimalia: Coleoptera: Coccinellidae
For identification, Colour photographCurrentHalyzia sedecimguttataOrange LadybirdAnimalia: Coleoptera: Coccinellidae
For identification, Colour photographCurrentEndomychus coccineusa false ladybirdAnimalia: Coleoptera: Endomychidae
For identification, Colour photographCurrentTriplax russicaa shiny fungus beetleAnimalia: Coleoptera: Erotylidae
For identification, Colour photographs of adult and larvaeCurrentCionus scrophulariaeFigwort WeevilAnimalia: Coleoptera: Curculionidae
For identification, Colour photographCurrentCurculio glandiumAcorn WeevilAnimalia: Coleoptera: Curculionidae
For identification, Colour photographCurrentMagdalis carbonariaa weevilAnimalia: Coleoptera: Curculionidae
For identification, Colour photographCurrentApoderus coryliHazel Leaf-roller WeevilAnimalia: Coleoptera: Attelabidae
For identification, Colour photographCurrentSitophilus granariusGrain Weevil, Granary WeevilAnimalia: Coleoptera: Dryophthoridae
For identification, Colour photographCurrentMelandrya caraboidesa false darkling beetleAnimalia: Coleoptera: Melandryidae
For identification, Colour photographCurrentOsphya bipunctataa false darkling beetleAnimalia: Coleoptera: Melandryidae
For identification, Colour photographCurrentMeloe proscarabaeusBlack Oil-beetleAnimalia: Coleoptera: Meloidae
For identification, Colour photographCurrentTomoxia bucephalaa tumbling flower beetleAnimalia: Coleoptera: Mordellidae
For identification, Colour photographCurrentMycetophagus quadripustulatusa hairy fungus beetleAnimalia: Coleoptera: Mycetophagidae
For identification, Colour photographs of imago and larvaCurrentPyrochroa serraticornisRed-headed Cardinal BeetleAnimalia: Coleoptera: Pyrochroidae
For identification, Colour photographCurrentCteniopus sulphureusSulphur BeetleAnimalia: Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae
For identification, Colour photographCurrentBitoma crenataa narrow timber beetleAnimalia: Coleoptera: Zopheridae
For identification, Colour photographCurrentAgrilus biguttatusOak Jewel BeetleAnimalia: Coleoptera: Buprestidae
For identification, Colour photographCurrentByrrhus fasciatusBanded Pill-beetleAnimalia: Coleoptera: Byrrhidae
For identification, Colour photographCurrentMalthinus flaveolusa soldier beetleAnimalia: Coleoptera: Cantharidae
For identification, Colour photographCurrentMalthodes marginatusa soldier beetleAnimalia: Coleoptera: Cantharidae
For identification, Colour photographCurrentRhagonycha fulvaCommon Red Soldier Beetle, "Hogweed Bonking Beetle"Animalia: Coleoptera: Cantharidae
For identification, Colour photographCurrentAnostirus castaneusChestnut Coloured Click BeetleAnimalia: Coleoptera: Elateridae
For identification, Colour photographs of imago and larvaCurrentAmpedus cardinalisCardinal Click BeetleAnimalia: Coleoptera: Elateridae
For identification, Colour photograph of femaleCurrentLampyris noctilucaGlowwormAnimalia: Coleoptera: Lampyridae
For identification, Colour photographCurrentTyphaeus typhoeusMinotaur BeetleAnimalia: Coleoptera: Geotrupidae
For identification, Colour photographCurrentAcrossus rufipesa dung beetleAnimalia: Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae
For identification, Colour photographCurrentCetonia aurataRose Beetle, Rose ChaferAnimalia: Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae
For identification, Colour photographs of imago, larva, frassCurrentGnorimus nobilisNoble ChaferAnimalia: Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae
For identification, Colour photographCurrentMelolontha melolonthaCommon Cockchafer, May BugAnimalia: Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae
For identification, Colour photographCurrentSerica brunneaBrown ChaferAnimalia: Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae
For identification, Colour photographCurrentMargarinotusa genus of clown beetlesAnimalia: Coleoptera: Histeridae
For identification, Colour photographCurrentHydrophilus piceusGreat Silver Water BeetleAnimalia: Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae
For identification, Colour photographCurrentNicrophorus investigatora sexton beetleAnimalia: Coleoptera: Silphidae
For identification, Colour photographCurrentDendroxena quadrimaculataa sexton beetleAnimalia: Coleoptera: Silphidae
For identification, Colour photograph of larvaCurrentSilpha tristisa sexton beetleAnimalia: Coleoptera: Silphidae
For identification, Colour photographCurrentOcypus olensDevil’s Coach-horse, Rove Beetle, CocktailAnimalia: Coleoptera: Staphylinidae
For identification, Colour photographCurrentStaphylinus erythropterusa rove beetleAnimalia: Coleoptera: Staphylinidae
For identification, Colour photographCurrentLordithon thoracicusa rove beetleAnimalia: Coleoptera: Staphylinidae
For identification, Colour photographCurrentTachyporus hypnoruma rove beetleAnimalia: Coleoptera: Staphylinidae
CurrentCOLEOPTERAbeetlesAnimalia
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