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Beetle-mania

In the Natural History Museum in London , roughly 10 million specimen make up their collection of Coleoptera — the taxonomic Holy Order that let in all mallet species .

About 2,000 to 3,000 young specimens are added each class , and the collecting span over three 100 , with 195,000 species represented . Many of the individual specimen in the collection date to the nineteenth one C , and were used to describe and name their species .

This unnamed specimen was compile in Tanzania , in Udzungwa Mountains National Park .

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Thanatophilus micans

Thanatophilus micansbeetles are normally known as carrion beetles . They were first described by the Danish animal scientist Johann Christian Fabricius in 1794 .

Crosita clementzae

Crosita clementzae , a species of leafage beetle , is native to the Altai Mountains in Mongolia . This specimen was come up in the Takhin - Shara - Nuru mount image , about five kilometers in the south of Tsargin . The coinage was describe by Russian entomologist Georgij Georgiewitsch Jacobson , in 1899 .

Anisorrhina laeviplaga

A species of scarab mallet , Anisorrhina laeviplagawas described in 1877 by the Gallic entomologist Achille Marie Jacques Raffray . This specimen was amass in the Nguru Mountains .

Dermorhytis fortunei

This specimen of the beetle speciesDermorhytis fortuneiis a syntype — one of a set of individuals used by scientist to describe and name a new species . The coinage was described in 1861 by the British entomologist Joseph Sugar Baly .

Erotylidae

Beetles in the Erotylidae sept are also experience as pleasing fungus mallet , according to the louse - identifying websiteBug scout . The name derive from the Greek intelligence " erotilos , " which means " stunner " or " favorite . "

Erotylidae includes approximately 3,500 coinage in 260 genera , distributed around the world .

This specimen was accumulate in Morona - Santiago in Ecuador , at an elevation of 3,609 feet ( 1,100 meters ) .

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Chrysolina coerulans bella

Collected inChina , this syntype representsChrysolina coerulans bella , a coinage originally calledChrysomela bella . It was described in 1890 by bugologist Martin Jacoby , who also collected this individual in 1909 .

Cheirolasia burkei

Cheirolasia burkeibelongs to a chemical group cognize as flower beetle , in the scarab beetle mob . The mintage was described by English entomologist John Obadiah Westwood , in 1843 .

This specimen was collected in 2012 in Tanzania , in the Nguru Mountains , but it can also be found in Congo , Mozambique , Namibia , Botswana and Kenya , according to theCatalogue of Life : 2011 Annual Checklist .

Aprophata eximia

get a line by the English entomologist Edward Newman in 1842,Aprophata eximialives in the Philippines . This is a case specimen , which means that the species name and verbal description were establish upon this individual .

Cheirotonus parryi

Cheirotonus parryiis a type of scarab beetle chance in Vietnam , Laos , Thailand , Myanmar and India . Beetles in this genus are also called foresighted - arm beetle , because of their oversized front limbs .

Docemina crassipes

Charles Darwin collected this syntype male specimen ofDocemina crassipesin Tierra del Fuego , an archipelago at the southernmost tip of South America , during his voyage onboard the H.M.S. Beagle ( 1832 to 1836 ) . The mintage was distinguish in 1918 by the English entomologist George Charles Champion , in the journalAnnals and Magazine of Natural History .

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a close-up of a fly

three photos of caterpillars covered in pieces of other insects

two ants on a branch lift part of a plant

A photo of the newly discovered species (Cryptops speleorex) on a cave wall.

The fossilised hell ant.

The fossil Keurbos susanae - or Sue - in the rock.

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Rhinoceros beetles in a row

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A blue metallic beetle preserved in stone.

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A small phallic stalagmite is encircled by a 500-year-old bracelet carved from shell with Maya-like imagery

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an abstract illustration depicting the collision of subatomic particles