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What size do Coleoptera range from?

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0.25mm (Nanosella fungi) to 10cm (Goliathus giganteus)

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How many families of coleoptera are bioluminescent?

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-2 families
-Fireflies (Lampyridae)
-Glowworms (Phengodidae)

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What is the largest order in the animal kingdom?

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  • Coleoptera
  • 40% of all insects
  • 25% of all animals
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What is the largest order of the insects?

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  • Coleoptera
  • Beetles and weevils
    -Over 300,000 species worldwide
    -166 families
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5
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How many species of Coleoptera in Ireland?

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-2154 species

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Adult Coleoptera characteristics

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  • Wing cases= elytra
    -Most have flying hind wings under the elytra
    -Strong mandible mouthparts
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Coleoptera Larvae

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  • Nearly always oligopodous (with normal thoracic legs only) and eucephalous (with well developed head capsule)
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8
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Are Coleoptera harmful or beneficial?

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-Both
-Herbivores
-Predators
-Scavengers
-Parasites
-Pollinators

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9
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Carabidae

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-Good for sustainable agriculture
-Larvae: Polyphagous soil living predators

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10
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Rovebeetles

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-Family: Staphylinidae

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Superfamily: Scarabaeoidea

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  • Stag beetles (Lucanidae)
  • Dor beetles (Geotrupidae)
  • Dung and scarab beetles (Scarabaeidae)
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Cockchafer

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-Melolontha melolontha (Scarabaeidae)
-Hairy
-Multiple red antennae
-Larvae: White in colour

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13
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Click-beetles

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-Family: Elateridae
-Larvae= wireworms
-Can cause damage to base of wheat seedlings, cereal crops, and potato tubers

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14
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Be able to distinguish between bettle (coleoptera) and bug (hemiptera)

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Slide 33

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15
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Ladybirds

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  • Larvae= Aphidophagous
  • Family: Coccinellidae
  • Feeds on aphids
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16
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Leaf Beetles

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Family: Chrysomelidae

17
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Colorado Beetle

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  • Leptinotarsa adecemlineata
  • Cause potato crop defoliation
18
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Fly Beetles

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  • Chrysolmelidae
  • Subfamily = Halticinae
19
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Cabbage Stem Flea Bettle (CSFB)

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  • Psylliodes chrysocephala
  • Cause damage to winter OSR - Mine over winter in leaf petioles and stems
20
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Blossom (pollen) beetles

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  • Meligethens spp.
  • Family: Nitidulidae
  • Adult blossom beetles feed in flowers damaging ovaries and larvae mine in flower buds = causing ‘blind’ seed pods and reduce seed set
21
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Weevils

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  • Family: Curculionidae
22
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Weevil characteristics

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  • Basal ‘scape’ segment
  • ‘Geniculate’ (elbowed) antennae
  • Biting/chewing mouthparts on end of elongate ‘snout’
23
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Curculionidae

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  • Only beetle family with apodous (legless) plant-mining larvae

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