Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Beetles

Beetles are one of the main groups of insects. Their order, Coleoptera (meaning "sheathed wing"), has more species in it than any other order in the entire animal kingdom. Forty percent of all described insect species are beetles (about 350,000 species), and new species are regularly discovered. Estimates put the total number of species - described and undescribed - at between 5 and 8 million. This is why, when J. B. S. Haldane, a British geneticist, was asked what his studies of nature revealed about God, he replied, "An inordinate fondness for beetles". Read more..


Augosoma centaurus
Augosoma centaurus
Chellorhina p. confluens + Ch.savagei
Chellorhina p. confluens + Ch.savagei
Chelorrhina savagei
Chelorrhina savagei
Dynastes hercules ecuatorianus
Dynastes hercules ecuatorianus
Eudicela trilineata
Eudicela trilineata
Eudicella nyassica
Eudicella nyassica
Goliathus goliathus
Goliathus goliathus
Oryctes nasicornis
Oryctes nasicornis
Smaragdethes africana africana
Smaragdethes africana africana
Xylotrupes gideon kaszabi
Xylotrupes gideon kaszabi

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