ORDER Coleoptera Beetles Suborder Adephaga notopleural suture seam

ORDER: Coleoptera – Beetles - Suborder Adephaga: notopleural suture (seam) on prothorax - aquatic; hind legs fringed with hairs and flattened, metasternum without transverse suture anterior to coxae - Suborder Polyphaga: notopleural sutures absent - Superfamily Scaraboidea: - Superfamily Chrysomeloidea: tarsi pseudotetramerous (uh, yeah…!) phytophagous

ORDER: Coleoptera – Beetles - Suborder Adephaga: notopleural suture (seam) on prothorax - aquatic; hind legs fringed with hairs and flattened, metasternum without transverse suture anterior to coxae - Suborder Polyphaga: notopleural sutures absent - Superfamily Scaraboidea: - Superfamily Chrysomeloidea: tarsi pseudotetramerous (uh, yeah…!) phytophagous 7. Cerambycidae – Long-horned Beetles (900) - 1 st antennal segment usually many x longer than 2 nd - antennae usually longer than ½ body length - antennae inserted on a ‘prominence’ - body elongate - tibia with two apical spurs - eyes often notched or divided by antennae - larvae are wood-boring and destructive

ORDER: Coleoptera – Beetles - Suborder Adephaga: notopleural suture (seam) on prothorax - aquatic; hind legs fringed with hairs and flattened, metasternum without transverse suture anterior to coxae - Suborder Polyphaga: notopleural sutures absent - Superfamily Scaraboidea: - Superfamily Chrysomeloidea: tarsi pseudotetramerous (uh, yeah…!) phytophagous 7. Cerambycidae – Long-horned Beetles 8. Chrysomelidae – Leaf Beetles (1720) - 1 st antennal segment seldom 2 -3 x longer than 2 nd - antennae usually shorter than ½ body length - antennae not inserted on a ‘prominence’ - body short, circular - one tibia with < 2 apical spurs - eyes notched or divided by antennae - larvae are wood-boring and destructive

ORDER: Coleoptera – Beetles - Suborder Adephaga: notopleural suture (seam) on prothorax - aquatic; hind legs fringed with hairs and flattened, metasternum without transverse suture anterior to coxae - Suborder Polyphaga: notopleural sutures absent - Superfamily Scaraboidea: - Superfamily Chrysomeloidea: - Superfamily Cucurlionoidea: 8. Cucurlionidae – Snout Beetles (3000) - often with a pronounced snout - antennae arising mid-way down snout - antennae often geniculate (elbowed) - club with 4 or fewer segments

ORDER: Coleoptera – Beetles - Suborder Adephaga: notopleural suture (seam) on prothorax - aquatic; hind legs fringed with hairs and flattened, metasternum without transverse suture anterior to coxae - Suborder Polyphaga: notopleural sutures absent - Superfamily Scaraboidea: - Superfamily Chrysomeloidea: - Superfamily Cucurlionoidea: 8. Cucurlionidae – Snout Beetles 9. Anthribidae – Fungus Weevils (90) - short snout - antennae not elbowed; some are long as the body, other short - some larvae develop in woody shelf fungi

ORDER: Coleoptera – Beetles - Suborder Adephaga: notopleural suture (seam) on prothorax - aquatic; hind legs fringed with hairs and flattened, metasternum without transverse suture anterior to coxae - Suborder Polyphaga: notopleural sutures absent - Superfamily Scaraboidea: - Superfamily Chrysomeloidea: - Superfamily Cucurlionoidea: 8. Cucurlionidae – Snout Beetles 9. Anthribidae – Fungus Weevils 10. Brentidae – Straight-snouted Weevils (156) - straight snout - often reddish and black, elongate or pear shaped

ORDER: Coleoptera – Beetles - Suborder Adephaga: notopleural suture (seam) on prothorax - aquatic; hind legs fringed with hairs and flattened, metasternum without transverse suture anterior to coxae - Suborder Polyphaga: notopleural sutures absent - Superfamily Scaraboidea: - Superfamily Chrysomeloidea: - Superfamily Cucurlionoidea: - Superfamily Staphylinoidea: elytra often short, antennae clubbed 11. Staphylinidae – Rove Beetles (4153) - elytra short and square; > 3 abdominal segments visible - abdomen often held over the head, scorpion-like - live in a variety of habitats, but often around decaying material. Larvae and adults predaceous - some parasitic in ant nests

ORDER: Coleoptera – Beetles - Suborder Adephaga: notopleural suture (seam) on prothorax - aquatic; hind legs fringed with hairs and flattened, metasternum without transverse suture anterior to coxae - Suborder Polyphaga: notopleural sutures absent - Superfamily Scaraboidea: - Superfamily Chrysomeloidea: - Superfamily Cucurlionoidea: - Superfamily Staphylinoidea: elytra often short, antennae clubbed 11. Staphylinidae – Rove Beetles 12. Silphidae – Carrion Beetles (30) - soft-bodied - elytra can be short; often red and black

ORDER: Coleoptera – Beetles - Suborder Polyphaga: notopleural sutures absent - Superfamily Staphylinoidea: - Superfamily Elateroidea: 13. Elateridae – Click Beetles (965) - prosternum with a ventral spine that is received in the mesosternum

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ORDER: Coleoptera – Beetles - Suborder Polyphaga: notopleural sutures absent - Superfamily Staphylinoidea: - Superfamily Elateroidea: 13. Elateridae – Click Beetles (965) 14. Lycidae - Net-winged Beetles (76) - soft-bodies, elongate - wings with raised ridges, yellow/orange and black - adults feed on decaying juices; larvae predaceous

ORDER: Coleoptera – Beetles - Suborder Polyphaga: notopleural sutures absent - Superfamily Staphylinoidea: - Superfamily Elateroidea: 13. Elateridae – Click Beetles 14. Lycidae - Net-winged Beetles 15. Lampyridae – Fireflies / Lighteningbugs (125) - pronotum comes forward over the head - wings soft and rather flat - large species bioluminesce by allowing the oxidation of luciferin made in the abdominal segments. Flow of air into the segments is regulated, creating a blinking pattrern by regulating the activity of the enzyme luciferase. video

ORDER: Coleoptera – Beetles - Suborder Polyphaga: notopleural sutures absent - Superfamily Staphylinoidea: - Superfamily Elateroidea: 13. Elateridae – Click Beetles 14. Lycidae - Net-winged Beetles 15. Lampyridae – Fireflies / Lighteningbugs 16. Cantharidae – Soldier Beetles (473) - similar to fireflies but head is visible

ORDER: Coleoptera – Beetles - Suborder Polyphaga: notopleural sutures absent - Superfamily Staphylinoidea: - Superfamily Elateroidea: - Superfamily Cucujoidea: 17. Cocinellidae – Ladybird Beetles (475) - oval, convex, head covered by pronotum - tarsi with 3 segments (similar chrysomelids seem to have 4)

ORDER: Coleoptera – Beetles - Suborder Polyphaga: notopleural sutures absent - Superfamily Staphylinoidea: - Superfamily Elateroidea: - Superfamily Cucujoidea: 17. Cocinellidae – Ladybird Beetles 18. Nitidulidae – Sap-feeding Beetles (165) - elytra short, expose terminal abdominal segment that segment (pygidium) heavily puctate - three or four segmented club - attracted to fruits and sap

ORDER: Coleoptera – Beetles - Suborder Polyphaga: notopleural sutures absent - Superfamily Staphylinoidea: - Superfamily Elateroidea: - Superfamily Cucujoidea: 17. Cocinellidae – Ladybird Beetles 18. Nitidulidae – Sap-feeding Beetles 19. Erotylidae – Pleasing Fungus Beeltes (50) - oval, shiny beetles; with red/orange on black - many look like they have 4 tarsal segments

ORDER: Coleoptera – Beetles - Suborder Polyphaga: notopleural sutures absent - Superfamily Staphylinoidea: - Superfamily Elateroidea: - Superfamily Cucujoidea: - Superfamily Hydrophiloidea: 20. Hydrophilidae – Water Scavenger Beetles (284) - similar to dytiscids, but short clubbed antennae and visible maxillary palps - some have a metasternal spine that can be used to jab fingers - first abdominal seg not divided by coxae (Polyphaga)

ORDER: Coleoptera – Beetles - Suborder Polyphaga: notopleural sutures absent - Superfamily Staphylinoidea: - Superfamily Elateroidea: - Superfamily Cucujoidea: - Superfamily Hydrophiloidea: 20. Hydrophilidae – Water Scavenger Beetles 21. Histeridae – Hister Beetles (435) - elytra blunt-ended, exposing 1 -2 segments - antennae elbowed and clubbed - tibia dilated, foretibia toothed - legs draw into grooves in body

ORDER: Coleoptera – Beetles - Suborder Polyphaga: notopleural sutures absent - Superfamily Staphylinoidea: - Superfamily Elateroidea: - Superfamily Cucujoidea: - Superfamily Hydrophiloidea: - Superfamily Tenebrionoidea: 22. Tenebrionidae – Darkling Beetles (1000) - mostly western, but some eastern representatives - tarsi are 5 -5 -4 - eyes notched - mealworms are larvae

ORDER: Coleoptera – Beetles - Suborder Polyphaga: notopleural sutures absent - Superfamily Staphylinoidea: - Superfamily Elateroidea: - Superfamily Cucujoidea: - Superfamily Hydrophiloidea: - Superfamily Tenebrionoidea: 23. Meloidae – Blister Beetles (400) - elytra shorter than abdomen and apices separate - pronotum narrower than head and elytra - some secrete cantharadin, causing blistering on skin

ORDER: Coleoptera – Beetles - Suborder Polyphaga: notopleural sutures absent - Superfamily Staphylinoidea: - Superfamily Elateroidea: - Superfamily Cucujoidea: - Superfamily Hydrophiloidea: - Superfamily Tenebrionoidea: 24. Mordellidae – Tumbling Flower Beetle (200) - body wedge-shaped and hump-backed - abdomen pointed and longer than elytra (‘pin-tailed beetles) - small 3 -7 mm, on flowers – quick; also tumble from flowers

ORDER: Coleoptera – Beetles - Suborder Polyphaga: notopleural sutures absent - Superfamily Staphylinoidea: - Superfamily Elateroidea: - Superfamily Cucujoidea: - Superfamily Hydrophiloidea: - Superfamily Tenebrionoidea: 25. Mycetophagidae – Hairy Fungus Beetles (26) - hairy; ofetn with red and black - small, 1. 5 – 5. 5 mm - live under bark and in shelf fungi

ORDER: Coleoptera – Beetles - Suborder Polyphaga: notopleural sutures absent - Superfamily Staphylinoidea: - Superfamily Elateroidea: - Superfamily Cucujoidea: - Superfamily Hydrophiloidea: - Superfamily Tenebrionoidea: - Superfamily Buprestoidea: 26. Buprestidae – Metallic Wood-Boring Beetles (762) - typical shape - shiny, metallic ventral surface - larvae damage trees

ORDER: Coleoptera – Beetles - Suborder Polyphaga: notopleural sutures absent - Superfamily Staphylinoidea: - Superfamily Buprestoidea: - Superfamily Cleroidea: 27. Cleridae – Checkered Beetles (291) - elongate and hairy - elytra narrower than base of wings - predaceous; common in logs - eyes often emarginate - multiple tarsomeres lobed - antennae clubbed

ORDER: Coleoptera – Beetles - Suborder Polyphaga: notopleural sutures absent - Superfamily Staphylinoidea: - Superfamily Buprestoidea: - Superfamily Cleroidea: 27. Cleridae – Checkered Beetles 28. Melyridae – Soft-Winged Flower Beetles (520) - antennae usually not clubbed - tarsi not lobed - less than 10 mm - often red and black

Some with two basal antennal segments enlarged

ORDER: Coleoptera – Beetles - Suborder Polyphaga: notopleural sutures absent - Superfamily Staphylinoidea: - Superfamily Buprestoidea: - Superfamily Cleroidea: - Superfamily Bostrichidae: 29. Bostrichidae – Branch and Twig Borers (70) - pronotum hoodlike – head pointed down - elongate, cylindrical body - atack living and dead wood

ORDER: Coleoptera – Beetles - Suborder Polyphaga: notopleural sutures absent - Superfamily Staphylinoidea: - Superfamily Buprestoidea: - Superfamily Cleroidea: - Superfamily Bostrichidae: 29. Bostrichidae – Branch and Twig Borers 30. Anobiidae – Death Watch Beetles (464) - very similar to Bostrichids - last three antennal segments longer

ORDER: Coleoptera – Beetles - Suborder Polyphaga: notopleural sutures absent - Superfamily Staphylinoidea: - Superfamily Buprestoidea: - Superfamily Cleroidea: - Superfamily Bostrichidae: 29. Bostrichidae – Branch and Twig Borers 30. Anobiidae – Death Watch Beetles (464) 31. Dermestidae – Skin or Carpet Beetles (123) - scavengers – eat skin, hair, chitin, carpet - most adults have a median ocellus