Index

234

fog basking 47, 77

food for humans 66–7, 158

food webs 36–7

forest stream beetles 153

fossils 22–3, 41, 84, 87, 91, 136

freshwater species 48–9

fungi 30–1, 180–1, 193

fungus weevils 216–17

G

Galerucinae 212–13

Gastrophysa 16

genitalia 16

Geotrupes 71

Geotrupidae 130–1

Giant Acacia Click Beetles 158

Giant Ceiba Borer 151

Giant Longhorn 29

Giant Palm Borer 168

glowworms 154, 162–3

Goethe, 80

Goliath Beetles 129

Goliathus 129

Gorse Weevil 64–5

Gray, Thomas 70

great diving beetles 104–5

ground beetles

24–5, 92–3, 96–101

Gyrinidae 12, 79, 91, 94–5

H

Haldane, J. B. S. 6

Haliplidae 102–3

Haliplus 103

ham beetles 174

Harmonia 79

harmonine 77, 79

Harpalinae 98–9

Harpalus 98

head 8, 10, 12–13

Heliocopris 136

Helophorus 113

Hemimetabola 9, 21

Hercules Beetles

14, 129, 139

hide beetles 12, 168

hister beetles 110, 114–15

Histeridae 110, 114–15

Holometabola 9, 20–1

horns 13, 14, 18

humans

association 52–79

food 66–7, 158

Hybosoridae 134–5

Hybosorinae 134–5

Hydraenidae 117

Hydrophilidae 110, 112–13

Hydrophiloidea 110–11

Hydroporinae 106–7

Hydroporus 107

Hydroscaphidae 87, 88

Hygrobiidae 93

Hypocephalus 200

I

ironclad beetles 188–9

Ischalia 199

Ischaliidae 199

Ithycerinae 221

J

Jacobsoniidae 166, 167

Japanese beetles 140

jewel beetles

12, 29, 69, 141, 146–51

Julodimorpha 148

Jurodidae 83

K

Kafka, Franz 71

Keats, John 70

Khepri 72

L

ladybugs

15, 25, 31, 77, 79, 178, 184–5

Lamiinae 204–5

Lampyridae 14, 16–17, 154,

162–3

Lampyris 162–3

Languriinae 181

larder beetles 60

large jewel beetles 150–1

Laricobius 166

leaf beetles

16, 26, 64, 200–1, 208–13

leaf-cutter ants 41

leaf-miners 146

leaf-rolling weevils 218–19

Leiodidae 118–19

Leiodinae 118

Leonard, M. G. 71

Lepiceridae 87, 89

Lepiceroidea 87

Lepicerus 89

Leptinotarsa 54–5

Lepturinae 202–3

Lethrinae 131

lightning bugs 162–3

Linnaeus, Carolus 52–3, 80

literature 70–1

Lizard Beetles 181

“lock and key” hypothesis 16

long-nosed weeviles 222–3

longhorn beetles

29, 59, 200–5

Lucanidae

13, 19, 81, 132–3

luciferase 78, 162

Luciola 79

Lycidae 160–1

Lymexylidae 170–1

Lymexyloidea 170–1

Lytta 78, 197