cicada parasite beetles 144–5

Cicindela 52, 96

Cicindelinae 12, 25, 49, 96–7

Ciidae 186

Clambidae 142–3

classification 80–1

Cleridae 174–5

Cleroidea 172–3

click beetles 15, 43, 154–9

clown beetles 110, 114–15

Coccinella 15

Coccinellidae

15, 25, 79, 178–9, 184–5

Colophon 133

Colorado Potato Beetles 54–5

complete metamorphosis

9, 20–1

conglobation 135

Coprophanaeus 33

Cotton Boll Weevil 55

crawling water beetles 102–3

Crowsoniellidae 83

Cryptocephalinae 210–11

Cucujoidea 178–9

Cupedidae 83, 84–5

Curculionidae

26, 55, 58–9, 214–15, 222–7

Curculioninae 222–3

Curculionoidea

13, 64–5, 66–7, 214–27

Cylas 221

Cylindrical Bark Beetles

188–9

D

darkling beetles

186, 190, 192–5

Darwin, Charles 7, 18, 53, 74

Dascillidae 144–5

Dascilloidea 144–5

Dascillus 145

Death Watch Beetles 61, 168

decaying animals 32–3

decaying plants 28–9

Decliniidae 142, 143

defensive chemicals

17, 25, 26–7, 73, 77, 78, 91,

107, 123, 160, 180, 193, 197

Dejean, Pierre 53

Dendroctonus 59, 179, 226

Dendroxena 120

Dermestes 168

Dermestidae 12, 33, 60, 168

Dermolepida 65

Derodontidae 166–7

Derodontoidea 166–7

desert beetles

46–7, 73, 77, 190–1

Devil’s Coach Horse

17, 25, 123

Dinapate 168

diseased-tree beetles 166, 167

Disteniidae 200, 201

diving beetles

25, 92–3, 104–7

Dor Beetles 130–1

dragon bugs 78

driftwood 46

drought tolerance

46–7, 190, 225

Dryopoidea 152

dung beetles

29, 33–5, 37, 38, 68, 72, 130–1,

136–7

Dürer, Albrecht 68

Durrell, Gerald 76

Dutch elm disease 30, 59, 226

Dynastes 14, 29, 129, 139

Dynastinae 129, 138–9

Dyschirius 101

Dytiscidae 25, 104–7

Dytiscinae 104–5

E

Earth-boring Dung Beetles

130–1

Elaeidobius 63

Elateridae 15, 43, 156–9

Elaterinae 156–7

Elateroidea 19, 154–9, 165

Eleodes 73

Elephant Beetles 129

elm bark beetles 30, 59

Elmidae 48, 152

elytra 8, 10, 14, 16, 22, 68–9

Emerald Ash Borer 59, 147

Emmita 145

Endecatomidae 168

Entiminae 224–5

entomophagy 66–7

Epilachna 179

Epilachninae 185

Erotylidae 180–1

Euchroma 151

Eucinetidae 142, 143

Eulichadidae 153

Eurynebria 50–1

Exapion 64–5

exoskeleton 14, 21, 22

eyes 12, 13, 44, 94–5

F

Fabre, Jan 69

featherwing beetles 117

fireflies 14, 78, 79, 154, 162–3

flat-faced longhorn beetles

204–5

flat-headed jewel beetles

146–7

flea beetles 212–13

flightlessness

102, 144, 145, 191

flower longhorns 202–3

flower-feeding beetles 12