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Exam #2 Flashcards

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Dendroctonus

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Southern Pine Beetle

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Biological Control with Coccinellidae

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  1. Charles Valentine Riley (C.V. Riley)
  2. Vedalia ladybird beetle
  3. Grape phylloxera
  4. Proposed idea for experiment stations
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Scolytinae

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Pest Species

  1. Scolytus - Dutch Elm Disease
  2. Dendroctonus - Southern Pine Beetle
  3. [Xylosandrus] - Ambrosis beetles
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Nitidulidae Feeding

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  1. Fermenting plant juice, fungi, dried carcasses, in flowers
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Feeds on Legumes

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Coccinellidae (Coleoptera)

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Chrysomelidae - Leaf Mining Beetles

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  1. Adults: ridged elytra
  2. Locust leaf miners
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Alfalfa weevils

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Curculionidae

  1. Hypera - adults and larvae on legumes
  2. Larvae spin cocoon
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Larder Beetle

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Dermestidae

  1. Feed on stored foods
    1. Including meats and cheeses
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Flower Beetles [Cetoniinae]

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  1. Adults on pollen and fruits
  2. Larvae in soil or organic matter
  3. Green june beetle
  4. Goliath Beetle
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Long Ovipositor

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Raphidiidae (Raphidioptera)

Lyctidae (Coleoptera)

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Cantharidin

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Meloidae

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Bostrichidae

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Branch and Twig borers

  1. Head deflexed
  2. Larvae and adults in unhealthy or dead trees; usually downed
  3. Some furniture pests
  4. Lead cable borer
  5. Larvae scarabaeiform; c-shaped, use muscles to brace in tunnel
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Carabidae (Cicindelinae)

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Tiger Beetles

  1. Head wider than throax
  2. Long mandibles
  3. Larvae in vertical ground borrows - “chicken choker”
    1. Protuberance with spikes
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Jewel Beetles

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  1. Many metallic colored species [Plusiotus and Chrysina]
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Dytiscidae

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Diving Beetle

  1. Adults/larvae predaceous
    1. By extraoral digestions
  2. Streams and standing water
  3. Pupation on land
  4. Air bubble under elytra
  5. Synchronous leg strokes
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Coccinellidae

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  1. In group of phytophagous species
  2. Pests on legumes and potatoes
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Ptiliidae

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Feather Wing Beetles

  1. Smallest beetles
  2. Hindwing with fringe
  3. Feed on fungus spores
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Strepsiptera

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  1. Included in Coleoptera by some researchers
  2. Twisted wings in adult males
  3. Parasites of social Hymenoptera and other insects
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Quinone Secretions in Tenebrionidae

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  1. Eleodes species exhibiting defensive behavior
  2. Grasshopper mice - predation on Eleodes
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Stridulate

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Passalidae (Coleoptera)

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Chrysomelidae - Colorado Potato Beetle

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  1. Biocontrol spp
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Scolytus (Pest)

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Dutch Elm Disease

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Lycidae

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Netwing Beetle

  1. Wings with network
  2. Adults on juices of decaying plants
  3. Larvae predaceous
  4. Adults - reflexive bleeding at intersegmental membranes
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Coccinellidae

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Ladybirds

  1. Usually red or black with spots
  2. Tarsi with apparent 3 segments
  3. Mostly predaceous
  4. Defense: reflexive bleeding: pupal movement
  5. Many hibernate in groups
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Scarabaeidae

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Scarabs

  1. Lamellate antennae, can spread or form ball
  2. Front tibia toothed
  3. Several subfamilies
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Plum curculio

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Curculionidae

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Carabidae Feeding

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  1. Larvae and adults: Predaceous (in most spp.) - Calosoma
  2. Snails
  3. Seeds/vegetation matter
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Elateridae Larvae

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Wireworms

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Lyctidae

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  1. Adults with head visible
  2. Female with long ovipositor
    1. eggs in pores
  3. Attack dead branches on tree
    1. Enter lumber in storage
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Suborder Polyphaga

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  1. Diverse feeding habits
  2. Most families of Coleoptera
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Paternal Care

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Silphidae

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Micromalthidae

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  1. Paedogenesis, oviparous, viviparous, and parthenogenetic
  2. Found in many bank vaults
  3. Bank vaults = Chestwood
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Death-watch Beetle

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Anobiidae

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Phyllophaga Larvae

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White grub

  1. Feeds on roots (esp. grasses)
  2. 2 - 3 year life cycle
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Attelabidae

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Leaf Rolling Beetles

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Carpet Beetles

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Dermestidae

  1. Major pest of insect collections
  2. In nests of birds and rodents
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Coccinella - 9 spotted ladybird

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Scarabaeiform

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  • Scarabaeidae
  • Bostrichidae
  • Anobiidae
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Feed on Spongilla (Fresh water sponges)

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Sisyridae (Coleoptera)

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Gyrinidae - Immatures

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  1. Aquatic
  2. Pupation in Cocoon
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Elateridae

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Click beetle

  1. Click apparatus = prosternal spine + groove on mesosternum
  2. Adults plant feeding
  3. Bioluminescence in some tropical species
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Tenebrionidae

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  1. Large family, notched eyes, similar to carabids
  2. Mostly feed on plant material, some stored products
  3. Cryptonephric
    1. malpighian tubules [Also in anobiids, bostrichids, and etc]
  4. Ecological homologue of Carabidae
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Dytiscidae - Larvae

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  1. Called “Water Tiger”
  2. Predaceous
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Myrmecophiles “Ant Lovers”

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Staphylinidae (Coleoptera)

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Buprestidae larvae

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  1. Larvae under bark or in wood, living or newly cut trees
  2. Some gall makers, leaf miners, stem borers
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Silphidae

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Carrion Beetles

  1. Burying beetles - resource removal
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Passalidae

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Bessybugs

  1. Grooved elytra
  2. Larvae with two pairs of functional legs
  3. Subsocial colonies in dead wood
  4. Adults stridulate
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Coleoptera

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“Coleos” = sheath wings = elytra

Largest Order

Arnett - Beetles of U.S.

Crowson - Biology of Coleoptera

Coleoptera Society

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Egyptian Culture

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Dung Beetles

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Trogidae

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Skin beetles

  1. Dry animal carcasses
    1. feed on feathers, hair, and bone
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Bruchinae

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Seed Weevils

  1. Short elytra, broad snout
  2. Larvae in seeds of legumes
  3. Bean and pea weevils
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Dung Beetles (tumblebugs)

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  1. Three habits
    1. feed within dung
    2. burrow beneath
    3. roll away a ball
  2. Introduced species
  3. Paul Lago (U Miss)
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Cocoon

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Nomopteridae - pupation (Neuroptera)

Sisyridae - pupation (Neuroptera)

Gyrinidae - pupation (Coleoptera)

Curculionidae (Coleoptera) - Hypera

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Dytiscidae - Modification on males

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Males have suction cups on foretarsi

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Convergent Ladybird

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Tenebrionidae pests

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  • Tribolium* - confused flour beetle
  • Tenebrio* - mealworm
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Vectors of Cucurbit Wilt

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Chrysomelidae - Rootworms

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Epicauta

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Meloidae

  1. Many pests: potatoes, tomatoes, field crops, horses
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Coccinellidae Larvae

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  1. Some covered with waxy secretions
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Hypermetamorphosis

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Mantispidae (Neuroptera)

Meloidae (Coleoptera)

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Meloidae

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Blister Beetles

  1. Pronotum rounded
  2. Soft elytra
  3. Tarsal claws cleft
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Lyctidae infestations

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  1. Frass fine, like talcum powder
  2. In large pored hardwoods
  3. Manufactured products less than 10 years old
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Lampyridae larvae

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Glowworm

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Hydrophilidae

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Water Scavenger Beetles

  1. Short clubbed antenna; long maxillary palpi
  2. Sternal spine, elytra overlap of abdomen
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Chrysomelidae

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Leaf Beetles

  1. Large family
  2. Apparent 4-4-4 tarsi
  3. Adults on flowers and foliage
  4. Larvae on foliage, roots, stem borers, leaf miners
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Adults and Larvae Predaceous

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Dytiscidae

Staphylinidae

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Carabidae

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Ground beetles

  1. Largest Family
  2. Campodeiform larvae
  3. Found: Under rocks, leaf litter, and bark
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Anthonomus - boll weevil

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Weevil statue in Enterprise, AL

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Silphidae

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Carrion Beetles

  1. Soft body, often brightly colored
  2. Adults/larvae on carrion
  3. Adults of some spp. regurgitata larvae
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Feed on Carrion

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Silphidae

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Feed on snails

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Carabidae

Lampyridae

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Lamellate Antennae

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Scarabaeidae (Coleoptera)

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Silk

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Nomopteridae (Neuroptera)

Curculionidae (Coleoptera) - Hypera

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Paul Lago

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Dung Beetles

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Haliplidae

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Crawling water beetles

  1. Adults - Large Coxal Plates
  2. Feed on algae
  3. Larvae - predaceous
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Cryptonephric

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Tenebrionidae (Coleoptera)

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Tenebrionidae

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Forked Fungus Beetle

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Anobiidae infestations

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  1. Wood older than 10 years
  2. Lemon-shaped pellets in frass, feels gritty
  3. Damage both hardwoods and softwoods (conifers)
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Psephenidae

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Water penny

  1. Larvae on rocks in fast flowing streams
80
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Chemical Ecology

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Tom Eisner

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Hydrophilidae

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  1. Adults: scavengers or plant feeders
  2. Some spp. in dung
  3. Alternate leg strokes
  4. Larvae: predaceous
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Khapra Beetle

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Dermestidae

  1. Worst stored product pest in world
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Subsocial tendencies

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  1. Silphidae
  2. Passalidae
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Chrysomelidae

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Tortoise Beetle

  1. Wide elytra, head covered, often iridescent when live
  2. Feed on morning glories and relatives
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Bioluminescent

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  1. Luciferin in presence of luciferase and oxygen
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Anobiidae

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Powder Post Beetle

  1. Some stored product pests, mostly on wood
  2. Death-watch beetle
  3. Larvae scarabaeiform; c-shaped
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Curculionidae - Scolytinae (Sometimes Scolytidae)

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  1. Bark beetles on inner bark
  2. Ambrosia beetles boring inner wood and growing fungus
  3. Galleries characteristic of species
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Coleoptera Suborders

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  1. Polyphaga
  2. Adephaga
  3. Archostemata
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Chrysomelidae - Flea Beetles

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  1. Enlarged hind femora
  2. Shotgun feeding
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Dermestidae

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  1. Adults hairy or scaled
  2. Adults mostly on pollen
  3. Larvae on plant and animal products
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Beetles of U.S. (Book)

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Arnett

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Twin girdlers (Adult damage)

Twin pruners (Larval damage)

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Cerambycidae

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Meloidae Lifecycle

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  1. Most spp. with hypermetamorphosis
  2. 1st instar - active triungulin (T) seeking grasshopper eggs or bees
  3. 2nd instar - scarabaeiform (FG - first grub)
  4. Pseudopupa or coarctate phase (C)
  5. Second grub (SG) - sometimes legless
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Feed on Algae

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Haliplidae (Coleoptera)

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Archostemata

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  1. Cupedidae
  2. Micromalthidae
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Emerald Ash Borer

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Buprestidae

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Predaceous Larvae

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Megaloptera (O)

Coleoptera (O)

  1. Haliplidae
  2. Hydrophilidae
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Cottonwood Borer

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Cerambycidae

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Feeds on fungus spores

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Ptiliidae

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Extraoral Digestion

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Dytiscidae (Coleoptera)

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Biology of Coleoptera (Book)

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Crowson

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Feeds on Morning Glories

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Chrysomelidae - Tortoise Beetles

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Taxidermy

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Dermestidae

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Defense Fluids

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Carabidae (Coleoptera)

Gyrinidae (Coleoptera)

Tenebrionidae (Coleoptera)

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Transvestite Rove Beetle

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Staphylinidae

[Leistotrophus versicolor]

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Bioluminescent

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Lampyridae (Coleoptera)

Elateridae (Coleoptera) - Some Tropical species

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Curculionidae

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True Weevils

  1. Large family, most economic importance
  2. Long snout, small mouthparts, elbowed antennae in many spp
  3. Snout diversity
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Reflexive Bleeding in Lycidae

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At intersegmental membranes

109
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Chrysomelidae - Tortoise Beetle Larvae

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Carry cast skins and excrement

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Cleridae

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Checkered Beetles

  1. Pubescent, often red or yellow and black checkered
  2. Predaceous; some spp. on bark beetles
  3. Red-legged ham beetle
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Phyllophaga

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June-May Beetles

  1. Adults on foliage and flowers
  2. About 60 spp. in MS, many flying in spring
  3. White grubs
    1. Larvae: feeding on roots (esp. grasses)
    2. 2 - 3 year life cycles
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Reflexive Bleeding

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Lycidae (Coleoptera)

Coccinellidae (Coleoptera)

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Gyrinidae

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Whirligig Beetles

  1. Semi-aquatic adults
  2. Divided Compound eye
  3. Adults with defensive compound
  4. Pupa = silk cocoon
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Suborder Adephaga

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  1. Predaceous
  2. Trochanter shaped like bean
115
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Cupedidae

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  1. Mature forests
  2. One species in MS
116
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Erotylidae

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Pleasing Fungus Beetles

117
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Chrysomelidae - Rootworms

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  1. Diabrotica - southern corn rootworm
  2. Adult vectors of cucurbit wilt
118
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Waxy Secretions

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Coccinellidae (Coleoptera)

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Dynastine Beetles

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  1. Many often with horns
  2. Dynastes - Hercules beetle
  3. Thai Kwang (beetle wrestling)
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Carabidae Defense

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  1. Bombadier beetles (Brachinus)
    1. Hot quinone spray
121
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Curculionidae Larvae

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  1. Scarabaeiform, usually legless
122
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Coccinella - European 7 spotted ladybird

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Lucanidae

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Stag Beetles

  1. Males with mandibles
  2. Larvae in decaying wood
  3. Japanese beetle culture (purchased for $$$$$$).
124
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Nitidulidae

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Sap Beetles

  1. Mostly flattened, margined pronotum, many with short elytra
125
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Theodosius Dobzhansky

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  1. Genetics and the Origin of Species (1951)
  2. Reproductive Isolating Mechanisms (RIM)
126
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Cantharidae

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Soldier Beetle

  1. Similar to lampyrids, but head is visible from above
  2. Adult in flowers
  3. Larvae predaceous
127
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[Nemognathini]

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Meloidae

  1. proboscis from maxilla
128
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Cerambycidae

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Longhorned Beetles

  1. Similar to Chrysomelidae, but with long antennae
  2. Eyes wrapped around antenna
  3. Adults of many in flowers esp. colored species
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Worst Stored Product Pest

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Khapra Beetle

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Popillia

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Japanese Beetle

  1. Introduced into eastern U.S. on nursury stock in early 1900’s
  2. Reached MS in 1998
  3. Larvae and adults are pests
    1. lawns, fruits, and shrubs
  4. Bacillus popillae
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Asian Ladybird

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Lampyridae

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Fireflies

  1. Pronotum covers head
  2. Larvae and some adults predaceous on insects and snails
  3. Bioluminescent: luciferin in presence of luciferase and oxygen
  4. Sibling species
    1. flash patterns
  5. Synchronous flashing
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Curculio

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Pecan and Acorn Weevil

  1. Curculionidae
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Cerambycidae Larvae

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  1. Round headed borers
  2. Circular tunnels in cross section
  3. Host specific in many species
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Buprestidae

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Flat headed borers

  1. Adults hard bodied, flat head, often metallic colored
  2. Tropical species
136
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Sitophilus

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Curculionidae

  1. Granary and rice weevils
137
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Leaf Miners

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  1. Chrysomelidae
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Hydrophilidae - Respiration

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  1. Surface oxygen obtained by breaking the surface film with antenna
  2. Air held under body in bubble as physical gill
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Staphylinidae

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Rove Beetles

  1. One of the largest families
  2. Short elytra
  3. Long madibles
  4. Adults and larvae: predaceous
  5. Found: decaying matter, dung, carrion, fungi, nests of birds, and ants

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