Dec 5, 2016 by News Staff

Fossilized forewings (elytra) from two individuals, discovered at the Oliver Bluffs on the Beardmore Glacier, revealed the first ground beetle species...

Aug 22, 2016 by News Staff

Certain beetles are known to pollinate plants. New fossil evidence from Mexican and Dominican fossilized amber indicates that they were doing so 20 million...

May 23, 2016 by News Staff

Taxonomy experts at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF) selected the top 10 from among the estimated 18,000 new species named...

Jan 20, 2016 by Enrico de Lazaro

Americans share their houses with any of more than 500 different morphospecies of arthropods (insects and their relatives) – at least on a short-term...

Oct 9, 2015 by News Staff

The smallest known beetle – and the smallest non-parasitoid insect – has a body length of 0.325 mm, according to entomologist Dr Alexey Polilov...

May 1, 2015 by News Staff

Using high-speed synchrotron X-ray imaging, a team of scientists led by Prof Christine Ortiz of Massachusetts Institute of Technology was able to look...

Jan 28, 2015 by News Staff

A team of scientists from Australia has discovered that a species of blind water beetle called Limbodessus palmulaoides – living underground for millions...

Dec 24, 2014 by News Staff

A group of scientists headed by Dr Alexander Riedel of Natural History Museum Karlsruhe in Germany has described 98 new species of the beetle genus Trigonopterus...

Dec 17, 2014 by Enrico de Lazaro

An international group of entomologists led by Dr Marco Bologna from the University Roma Tre, Italy, has described a new species in the beetle genus Hycleus. Hycleus...

Jan 24, 2014 by News Staff

Dr Joseph Parker, a biologist with both Columbia University and the American Museum of Natural History, has described a new genus of rove beetles from...

Dec 5, 2013 by News Staff

Dr Terry Erwin of the Smithsonian Institution has described a new genus and species of beetle from French Guiana. The Spectacular Guyane False-form beetle,...

Nov 29, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

Entomologists from Bolivia and Brazil have described a new species of rhinoceros beetle from a subhumid forest in the Southern Bolivian Andes. Oryctophileurus...

Oct 22, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

Entomologists Dr Renzo Perissinotto from the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, and Dr Philippe Moretto from France...

Oct 16, 2013 by News Staff

Dr Michael Caterino and Dr Alexey Tishechkin, both from the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, have described 85 new species in the genus Baconia,...

Sep 30, 2013 by News Staff

Entomologists from Panama, Europe, Canada and Brazil have teamed up to describe in detail the different degrees of maternal instincts present within eight...

Apr 3, 2012 by Natali Anderson

A team of evolutionary biologists has discovered that some plants mimic scent of pollinating beetles. Flowers of the Arum family: Amorphophallus hewittii...

Feb 7, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

A team of Japanese researchers has successfully demonstrated that loss of flight has been the major driving force for beetle diversification. Carrion beetles:...