Important Texas Beetle Links

Scarabaeoidea - Scarab Beetles and relatives

•  An annotated checklist of the Scarabaeoidea of Texas - (PDF) (Riley & Wolfe 2003) Southwestern Entomologist, 37 pp.

Buprestidae - Metallic Wood-Boring Beetles

• Buprestidae of Texas - Range, Hosts and Thumbnail links to BugGuide

Coccinellidae - Lady Beetles, Ladybugs

• Lady Beetles (Coccinellidae) of Texas - Thumbnail links to BugGuide

Cerambycidae - Longhorned Beetles

• Longhorn Beetles (Cerambycidae) of Texas - Thumbnail links to BugGuide
• Photographic Catalog of the Cerambycidae of the New World
• Cerambycidae Holotypes of the Smithsonian Institution
• The Cerambycidae of Florida (thumbnails of 234 species) - Florida State Collection of Arthropods

Chrysomelidae - Leaf Beetles

• Leaf Beetles (Chrysomelidae) of Texas - Dets. by Ed Riley, Photos by Mike Quinn
• Cryptocephalus species groups of North America - Based on White (1968)
• Catalog of Leaf Beetles of America North of Mexico - Ed Riley, Shawn Clark, & Terry Seeno
• Host Plants of Leaf Beetle Species Occurring in the United States and Canada - Clark, LeDoux, Seeno, Riley, Gilbert, and Sullivan

Beetle Photographs of Other Familes

• Texas Beetle Photographs Organized by Family 

Checklists

• Illustrated Beetle Inventory of the Sabal Palm Grove Preserve (Cameron Co., TX) - (PDF) Edward G. Riley & Michael A. Quinn
• An annotated checklist of the Scarabaeoidea of Texas - (PDF) - (Riley & Wolfe. 2003) Southwestern Entomologist, 37 pp. [PDF]
• Provisional Checklist of the Coleoptera (Beetles) of Brackenridge Field Laboratory  - UT, Austin
• A Distributional Checklist of the Beetles (Coleoptera) of Florida - Stewart B. Peck & Michael C. Thomas
• North American Beetle Taxonomy - Nearctica

Photographs 

• Texas Beetle Photos by Family - Note: Must have an activated Google account for links to function
• Texas Beetle Photos by Location and Date
• Photographs of beetles in a south Austin backyard
• Families of Coleoptera (beetles) likely to be encountered in Austin, Texas - Valerie Bugh
• Representative thumbnail images for every North American beetle family - BugGuide.Net

Endangered

• Federally Listed Endangered Beetles of Texas

Misc.

• Texas Beetle Information - Treats various common beetle species
• Cameron County Beetles Described by Charles Schaeffer
• Comparative Beetle, Botany and Bird Diversity of Texas and North America - Graph
• MCZ Type Database @ Harvard Entomology
• North American Beetle Taxonomy - Nearctica

Traps and Techniques

• Beetle Collecting Techniques

• Insect Collecting Equipment

Organizations and Entomologists

• Coleopterists' Society - Coleopterists Bulletin Bibliography - Complete Bibliography as of 25 July 2003 - PDF
• The Society of Southwestern Entomologists - Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico and Mexico
• Early Texas Entomologists - The Handbook of Texas Online
• Scarab Workers (past and present) - World Directory - University of Nebraska-Lincoln State Museum
• List of Coleopterists - Wikipedia
• Cameron County Beetles Described by Charles Schaeffer
• Karl Heinz Stephan 1931-2005

Select Beetle Books

General - Buprestidae - Cicindelinae - Cerambycidae - Chrysomelidae - Coccinellidae - Curculionidae

• General Beetle Titles

• American Beetles, Volume I: Archostemata, Myxophaga, Adephaga, Polyphaga: Staphyliniformia - Limited Preview
  Ross H Arnett, Jr.; Michael C Thomas. (editors). 2000. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, FL. xvi + 443 pp.

• American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea - Limited Preview
  Ross H Arnett, JR; Michael C Thomas; Paul E Skelley; J. Howard Frank. (editors). 2002. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, FL. xiv + 861 pp. 

• Biologia Centrali-Americana (BCA)

• Catalogue of the Coleoptera of America, North of Mexico ("The Leng Catalogue")
  Charles W. Leng. 1920. John D. Sherman, Jr., Mount Vernon, NY.

• A Field Guide to the Beetles of North America
  White, R. E. 1983. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston. 368 pp.

• Buprestidae - Metallic Wood-boring Beetles

• A Catalog and Bibliography of the Buprestoidea of America North of Mexico, Special Publication No. 4
  Gayle H. Nelson George C. Walters, Jr. R. Dennis Haines Charles L. Bellamy. 2008. Coleopterists Society. 

• Cicindelinae - Tiger Beetles

• A Field Guide to the Tiger Beetles of the United States and Canada: Identification, Natural History, and Distribution of the Cicindelidae
  David L. Pearson, C. Barry Knisley and Charles J. Kazilek
  2005. Oxford University Press, Oxford. 292 pp.

• Cerambycidae - Longhorn Beetles

• Illustrated Key to the Longhorned Woodboring Beetles of the Eastern United States, Special Publication No. 3 
  Steven W. Lingafelter. Coleopterists Society. 208 pages.
  
  
• Field guide to northeastern longhorn beetles (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae). - Still just $15...
  Doug Yanega. 1996. Illinois Natural History Survey, Champaign. 6:1-184. 

• The Cerambycidae of North America. Parts 1-8.
  Linsley E.G. & Chemsak J.A. 1972-1997. University of California Press, Berkeley. 

• The Cerambycidae of North America, Part VII, No. 2: Taxonomy and classification of the subfamily Lamiinae, tribes Acanthocinini through Hemilophini.
  Linsley, E.G. & J.A. Chemsak. 1995. University of California Publications in Entomology 114: 1-292. 

• Chrysomelidae - Leaf Beetles

• Catalog of Leaf Beetles of America North of Mexico
  Riley, E.G., S.M. Clark, & T.N. Seeno. 2003. Coleopterists Society. 290 pp. (CD-ROM included)

• Host Plants of Leaf Beetle Species Occurring in the United States and Canada
  Clark, S.M., D.G. LeDoux, T.N. Seeno, E.G. Riley, A.J. Gilbert, & J.M. Sullivan.. 2004. Coleopterists Society. 476 pp.

• Coccinellidae - Lady Beetles

• The Coccinellidae (Coleoptera) of America North of Mexico
  Gordon, R.D. 1985. Journal of the New York Entomological Society. 93(1):1-912.

• Curculionidae - Weevils

• Rhynchophora or Weevils of North Eastern America.
  Blatchley, W.S. & C.W. Leng. 1916. Nature Publ. Co., Indianapolis, Indiana. 682 pp.

Bibliographies

Aquatic Coleoptera Bibliography (A-K) - (L-Z) - Sharon Knight Jasper, Ph.D.

Coleopterists Bulletin Bibliography - The Coleopterists Society

Oklahoma Coleoptera - Oklahoma State University

Buprestidae - Dr. Maurizio Gigli 

Dermestidae - Andreas Herrmann

Tenebrionidae - James C. Dunford, Michael C. Thomas, and Paul M. Choate, Jr.

August 20, 2010 © Mike Quinn / entomike@gmail.com / Texas Entomology