Coleoptera Taxonomic Resources / Catalogs

Introduction

This page is designed to provide a useful list of online resources or printed catalogs of beetle (Coleoptera) taxonomic groups.

Online Resources

Buprestoidea

Buprestidae

Name	URL	Description
The World of Jewel Beetles	http://coleopsoc.org/buprestidae/	Comprehensive world database of jewel beetles in a series of flat files

Chrysomeloidea

Cerambycidae

Name	URL	Description
Titan Database of Cerambycids or Longhorn Beetles	http://lully.snv.jussieu.fr/titan/index.html	Comprehensive world database of longhorn beetles
New World Cerambycidae Catalog	https://apps2.cdfa.ca.gov/publicApps/plant/bycidDB/wdefault.asp	Comprehensive New World database of longhorn beetles
Lamiaires du Monde	http://www.lamiinae.org/80v/	Comprehensive world database of the subfamily Lamiinae (Cerambycidae)

Cucujoidea

General

Name	URL	Description
A Preliminary Checklist of the Flat Bark Beetles of the World	http://www.fsca-dpi.org/Coleoptera/Mike/chklist.htm	Preliminary world checklist of Cucujidae s.s., Laemophloeidae, Passandridae and Silvanidae

Alexiidae

Name	URL	Description
Checklist of the Alexiidae of the World (Coleoptera: Cucujoidea)	http://www.ent.uga.edu/mchugh/Resources/checklists/alexlist.htm	Comprehensive world checklist of Alexiidae

Erotylidae

Name	URL	Description
Pleasing Fungus Beetles of North America Family Erotylidae	http://www.fsca-dpi.org/Coleoptera/Paul/Introduction.html	North American checklist of pleasing beetles (Erotylidae)

Phalacridae

Name	URL	Description
World checklist of valid names in Phalacridae	http://www.lsuinsects.org/research/phalacridae/	World checklist of Phalacridae

Curculionoidea

General

Name	URL	Description
WTaxa	http://wtaxa.csic.es/	Database of weevil (Curculionoidea) names, although the taxonomic status of groups are questionable
International Weevil Community Website	http://weevil.info/	Database of weevil (Curculionoidea) higher level taxonomy but sparse on species and genera

Curculionidae

Name	URL	Description
Bark and Ambrosia Beetles	http://www.barkbeetles.info/index.php	Comprehensive North American database of bark and ambrosia beetles (Curculionidae: Platypodinae and Scolytinae)

Dytiscoidea

Dytiscidae

Name	URL	Description
A World Catalogue of the Family Dytiscidae, or the Diving Beetles (Coleoptera, Adephaga)	http://www2.emg.umu.se/projects/biginst/andersn/WCD_20140101.pdf	Comprehensive world catalog of predaceous diving beetles (PDF)

Noteridae

Name	URL	Description
A World Catalogue of the Family Noteridae, or the Burrowing Water Beetles (Coleoptera, Adephaga)	http://www2.emg.umu.se/projects/biginst/andersn/WCN/WCN_20110816.pdf	Comprehensive world catalog of burrowing water beetles (PDF)

Scarabaeoidea

General

Name	URL	Description
Generic Guide to New World Scarab Beetles	http://museum.unl.edu/research/entomology/Guide/Guide-introduction/Guideintro.html	List and some catalogs of New World scarab beetles (Scarabaeoidea)
Scarabaeoidea of Southern South America	http://museum.unl.edu/research/entomology/SSSA.html	Checklist of Nearctic scarab beetles (Scarabaeoidea)

Scarabaeidae

Name	URL	Description
Scarabaeoidea of Southern South America	http://museum.unl.edu/research/entomology/SSSA.html	Checklist of New World chafers (Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae)

Printed Catalogs

General

Reference	Description
Bouchard, Bousquet, Davies, Alonso-Zarazaga, Lawrence, Lyal, Newton, Reid, Schmitt, Ślipiński & Smith. 2011. Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta). ZooKeys, 88: 1-972. doi:10.3897/zookeys.88.807	Comprehensive catalog of beetle family-group names

Caraboidea

Reference	Description
Bousquet. 2012. Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico. ZooKeys, 245: 1-1722. doi:10.3897/zookeys.245.3416	Comprehensive catalog of Caraboidea from America, north of Mexico
Lorenz. 2005. Systematic list of extant ground beetles of the world (Coleoptera "Geadephaga": Trachypachidae and Carabidae incl. Paussinae, Cicindelinae, Rhysodinae). 2nd edition. Wolfgang Lorenz, Tutzing. 530 pp.	Checklist of world Caraboidea

Chrysomeloidea

Reference	Description
Riley, Clark & Seeno. 2003. Catalog of the leaf beetles of America north of Mexico (Coleoptera: Megalopodidae, Orsodacnidae and Chrysomelidae, excluding Bruchinae). The Coleopterists Society, Special Publications, 1: 1-290.	Comprehensive catalog of Megalopodidae, Orsodacnidae and Chrysomelidae, excluding Bruchinae, from America, north of Mexico

Cleroidea

Trogossitidae

Reference	Description
Kolibáč. 2013. Trogossitidae: A review of the beetle family, with a catalogue and keys. ZooKeys, 366: 1-194. doi:10.3897/zookeys.366.6172	Comprehensive World catalog of Trogossitidae

Cucujoidea

General

Reference	Description
Rücker. 2013. Checklist Latridiidae & Merophysiinae of the world. Latridiidae & Merophysiinae, 10: 1-18.	World checklist of Latridiidae & Merophysiinae (Endomychidae)

Endomychidae

Reference	Description
Shockley, Tomaszewska & McHugh. 2009. An annotated checklist of the handsome fungus beetles of the world (Coleoptera: Cucujoidea: Endomychidae). Zootaxa, 1999: 1-113.	Comprehensive world catalog of handsome fungus beetles (Endomychidae)

Curculionoidea

Anthribidae

Reference	Description
Valentine. 1998. A review of Nearctic and some related Anthribidae (Coleoptera). Insecta Mundi, 12(3-4): 251-296.	Comprehensive Nearctic catalog of fungus weevils (Anthribidae)

Tenebrionoidea

Tenebrionidae

Reference	Description
Bouchard, Lawrence, Davies & Newton. 2005. Synoptic classification of the world Tenebrionidae (Insecta: Coleoptera) with a review of family-group names. Annales Zoologici, 55(4): 499-530.	Comprehensive generic classification of darkling beetles