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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
Scarabs 1. Lamellate antennae, can spread or form ball 2. Front tibia toothed 3. Several subfamilies
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***Plum curculio***
Curculionidae
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Carabidae Feeding
1. Larvae and adults: Predaceous (in most spp.) - ***Calosoma*** 2. Snails 3. Seeds/vegetation matter
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Elateridae Larvae
Wireworms
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Lyctidae
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
1. Diverse feeding habits 2. Most families of Coleoptera
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Paternal Care
Silphidae
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Micromalthidae
1. Paedogenesis, oviparous, viviparous, and parthenogenetic 2. Found in many bank vaults 3. Bank vaults = Chestwood
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Death-watch Beetle
Anobiidae
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**Phyllophaga** Larvae
White grub 1. Feeds on roots (esp. grasses) 2. 2 - 3 year life cycle
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Attelabidae
Leaf Rolling Beetles
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Carpet Beetles
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
* Scarabaeidae * Bostrichidae * Anobiidae
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**Feed on Spongilla (Fresh water sponges)**
**Sisyridae** (Coleoptera)
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Gyrinidae - Immatures
1. Aquatic 2. Pupation in Cocoon
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Elateridae
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
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
1. Called "Water Tiger" 2. Predaceous
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**Myrmecophiles "Ant Lovers"**
**Staphylinidae** (Coleoptera)
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Buprestidae larvae
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
Carrion Beetles 1. Burying beetles - resource removal
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Passalidae
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**
"Coleos" = sheath wings = elytra **Largest Order** Arnett - Beetles of U.S. Crowson - Biology of Coleoptera Coleoptera Society
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Egyptian Culture
Dung Beetles
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Trogidae
Skin beetles 1. Dry animal carcasses 1. feed on feathers, hair, and bone
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Bruchinae
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)
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**
**Nomopteridae** - pupation (Neuroptera) **Sisyridae** - pupation (Neuroptera) **Gyrinidae** - pupation (Coleoptera) **Curculionidae** (Coleoptera) - *Hypera*
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Dytiscidae - Modification on males
Males have suction cups on foretarsi
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Convergent Ladybird
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Tenebrionidae pests
* Tribolium* - confused flour beetle * Tenebrio* - mealworm
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Vectors of Cucurbit Wilt
Chrysomelidae - Rootworms
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***Epicauta***
Meloidae 1. Many pests: potatoes, tomatoes, field crops, horses
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Coccinellidae Larvae
1. Some covered with waxy secretions
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**Hypermetamorphosis**
**Mantispidae** (Neuroptera) **Meloidae** (Coleoptera)
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Meloidae
Blister Beetles 1. Pronotum rounded 2. Soft elytra 3. Tarsal claws cleft
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Lyctidae infestations
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
Glowworm
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Hydrophilidae
Water Scavenger Beetles 1. Short clubbed antenna; long maxillary palpi 2. Sternal spine, elytra overlap of abdomen
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Chrysomelidae
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
Dytiscidae Staphylinidae
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Carabidae
Ground beetles 1. Largest Family 2. Campodeiform larvae 3. Found: Under rocks, leaf litter, and bark
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Anthonomus - boll weevil
Weevil statue in Enterprise, AL
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Silphidae
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
Silphidae
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Feed on snails
Carabidae Lampyridae
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**Lamellate Antennae**
**Scarabaeidae** (Coleoptera)
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**Silk**
**Nomopteridae** (Neuroptera) **Curculionidae** (Coleoptera) - *Hypera*
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Paul Lago
Dung Beetles
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Haliplidae
Crawling water beetles 1. Adults - Large Coxal Plates 2. Feed on algae 3. Larvae - predaceous
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**Cryptonephric**
**Tenebrionidae** (Coleoptera)
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Tenebrionidae
Forked Fungus Beetle
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Anobiidae infestations
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
Water penny 1. Larvae on rocks in fast flowing streams
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Chemical Ecology
Tom Eisner
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Hydrophilidae
1. Adults: scavengers or plant feeders 2. Some spp. in dung 3. Alternate leg strokes 4. Larvae: predaceous
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Khapra Beetle
Dermestidae 1. Worst stored product pest in world
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Subsocial tendencies
1. Silphidae 2. Passalidae
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Chrysomelidae
Tortoise Beetle 1. Wide elytra, head covered, often iridescent when live 2. Feed on morning glories and relatives
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Bioluminescent
1. **Luciferin** in presence of **luciferase** and **oxygen**
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Anobiidae
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)
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
1. Polyphaga 2. Adephaga 3. Archostemata
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Chrysomelidae - Flea Beetles
1. Enlarged hind femora 2. Shotgun feeding
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Dermestidae
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)
Arnett
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Twin girdlers (Adult damage) Twin pruners (Larval damage)
Cerambycidae
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Meloidae Lifecycle
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**
**Haliplidae** (Coleoptera)
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Archostemata
1. Cupedidae 2. Micromalthidae
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Emerald Ash Borer
Buprestidae
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Predaceous Larvae
Megaloptera (O) Coleoptera (O) 1. Haliplidae 2. Hydrophilidae
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Cottonwood Borer
Cerambycidae
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Feeds on fungus spores
Ptiliidae
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**Extraoral Digestion**
**Dytiscidae** (Coleoptera)
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**Biology of Coleoptera** (Book)
Crowson
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Feeds on Morning Glories
Chrysomelidae - Tortoise Beetles
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Taxidermy
Dermestidae
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**Defense Fluids**
**Carabidae** (Coleoptera) **Gyrinidae** (Coleoptera) **Tenebrionidae** (Coleoptera)
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Transvestite Rove Beetle
Staphylinidae [Leistotrophus versicolor]
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**Bioluminescent**
**Lampyridae** (Coleoptera) **Elateridae** (Coleoptera) - Some Tropical species
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Curculionidae
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
At intersegmental membranes
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Chrysomelidae - Tortoise Beetle Larvae
Carry cast skins and excrement
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Cleridae
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***
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**
**Lycidae** (Coleoptera) **Coccinellidae** (Coleoptera)
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Gyrinidae
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
1. Predaceous 2. Trochanter shaped like bean
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Cupedidae
1. Mature forests 2. One species in MS
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Erotylidae
Pleasing Fungus Beetles
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Chrysomelidae - Rootworms
1. *Diabrotica* - southern corn rootworm 2. Adult vectors of cucurbit wilt
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**Waxy Secretions**
**Coccinellidae** (Coleoptera)
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Dynastine Beetles
1. Many often with horns 2. *Dynastes* - Hercules beetle 3. Thai Kwang (beetle wrestling)
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Carabidae Defense
1. Bombadier beetles (*Brachinus*) 1. Hot quinone spray
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Curculionidae Larvae
1. Scarabaeiform, usually legless
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Coccinella - European 7 spotted ladybird
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Lucanidae
Stag Beetles 1. Males with mandibles 2. Larvae in decaying wood 3. Japanese beetle culture (purchased for $$$$$$).
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Nitidulidae
Sap Beetles 1. Mostly flattened, margined pronotum, many with short elytra
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Theodosius Dobzhansky
1. *Genetics and the Origin of Species (1951)* 2. Reproductive Isolating Mechanisms (RIM)
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Cantharidae
Soldier Beetle 1. Similar to lampyrids, but head is visible from above 2. Adult in flowers 3. Larvae predaceous
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[Nemognathini]
Meloidae 1. proboscis from maxilla
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Cerambycidae
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**
**Khapra Beetle**
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***Popillia***
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
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***
Pecan and Acorn Weevil 1. Curculionidae
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Cerambycidae Larvae
1. Round headed borers 2. Circular tunnels in cross section 3. Host specific in many species
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Buprestidae
Flat headed borers 1. Adults hard bodied, flat head, often metallic colored 2. Tropical species
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*Sitophilus*
Curculionidae 1. Granary and rice weevils
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Leaf Miners
1. Chrysomelidae
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Hydrophilidae - Respiration
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
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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