They’re members of a group of 40,000 species of leaf beetles, the Chrysomelidae, one of the most species-rich branches of the ...

Taxonomy is the science of describing, classifying and naming organisms. It organizes the vast diversity of life on Earth.

The last record of the beetle was at Wicken Fen in 1938 by eminent coleopterist, Frank Balfour-Brown A species of beetle has been rediscovered after a gap of 86 years. The great silver water ...

There are roughly 400,000 species of beetle known to science, from miniscule insects less than half a millimetre long to giants longer than a chihuahua. Beetles - a group of insects also known as ...

About 500 metres into the walk, he spotted a tiny chocolate brown dung beetle less than 5mm in size amid a hoard of common ...

Beetles are everywhere, from our backyard to the deepest jungles. But with over 400,000 identified species – a quarter of all known lifeforms – scientists have long been puzzled by their ...

Christian Deschodt, a doctoral student at the University of Pretoria (UP), has uncovered two new species of dung beetles over ...

Beetles are an evolutionary success, with rove beetles' diversification largely due to their unique tergal gland that synthesizes defensive chemicals. This adaptation, evolving over millions of years, ...

In his latest paper, which also appeared in Zootaxa, Deschodt described yet another new species. Onthophagus pragtig probably ...

An entomologist who has been documenting dung beetles for two decades believes that a species he has just discovered could ...