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Adolf Horion

Adolf Horion (12 July 1888, Hochneukirch - 28 May 1977, Überlingen) was a German entomologist who specialised in Coleoptera.

Carl Stål

Although Stål, who was regarded as the world's foremost worker on Hemiptera, published most on this order, he also worked on Orthoptera and to a lesser extent on Coleoptera and Hymenoptera.

Christian Rudolph Wilhelm Wiedemann

Although he worked mainly on Diptera he also published descriptions of Coleoptera and (at least one) Hymenopteran.

Coenraad Ritsema

Ritsema was a Curator at RMNH Rijksmuseum van Natuurlike in Leiden from 1873 to 1916 and wrote many short papers describing new species of Hymenoptera and Coleoptera.

Eastern red bat

Moths (Lepidoptera) form the majority of the diet, but red bats also prey heavily on beetles (Coleoptera), flies (Diptera), and other insects.

Entomoplasma

Entomoplasma freundtii can be isolated from the green tiger beetle (Cicindela campestris, Coleoptera: Cicindelidae).

Entomoplasma freundtii

Entomoplasma freundtii is a mollicute bacteria species that can be isolated from the green tiger beetle (Cicindela campestris, Coleoptera: Cicindelidae).

Erich Martin Hering

He was a curator in the Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin, where his collections of Lepidoptera, Coleoptera, Hymenoptera, Diptera are conserved.His collections of Agromyzidae are shared between MfN and the Agricultural School at Portici now part of the University of Naples Federico II.

Ernst Friedrich Germar

As well as being a mineralogist he was interested in entomology and particularly in the Coleoptera and Hemiptera.

Erysimum popovii

Flowers are visited by many species of insects belonging to the order Hymenoptera, Diptera, Coleoptera, Lepidoptera and Heteroptera, outstanding species of Andrena (Andrenidae), Lasioglossum (Halictidae), Anthophora (Anthophoridae) and Bombylius (Bombyliidae).

Étienne Mulsant

In 1840, he published Histoire naturelle des Coléoptères de France, (Natural History of the Coleoptera of France) with various other entomologists : Antoine Casimir Marguerite Eugène Foudras (1783–1859) and Claudius Rey (1817–1895), his former pupil.

Eugene O'Mahoney

Eugene O'Mahoney ( 1899 Dublin - 21 June 1951 Dublin ) was an Irish museum curator and entomologist who worked on Coleoptera, Mallophaga and Siphonaptera.

Francisque Guillebeau

In Lyon, he had as influences; entomologists Antoine Foudras and Étienne Mulsant, with whom he published several papers on Coleoptera.

George Charles Champion

Much of his work was with exotic Coleoptera, but he also wrote faunistic papers, mainly on beetles from Woking, Surrey, where he lived.

Hayk Mirzayans

Psammodromius mirzayani Morvan, 1977 (Coleoptera: Carabidae)

Laemostenus (Antisphodrus) mirzayani (Morvan, 1973) (Coleoptera: Carabidae)

Trechus mirzayani Morvan, 1974 (Coleoptera: Carabidae)

Hiromichi Kono

He performed taxonomic work in Coleoptera as well, describing a new genus of Lycid beetle, Benibotarus (ITIS).

His emphasis within entomology was on Coleoptera, his doctoral work (completed circa 1932) concerning a Japanese billbug (Okada, 1964).

Jean-Baptiste Robineau-Desvoidy

André Jean Baptiste Robineau-Desvoidy (1 January 1799, Saint-Sauveur - 25 June 1857, Paris) was a French physician and entomologist specialising in the study of Diptera (flies) and to some extent of the Coleoptera (beetles).

Joseph-Étienne Giraud

Joseph-Étienne Giraud (31 January 1808, Briançon - 28 May 1877, Paris) was a French doctor and entomologist specializing in Hymenoptera with an additional interest in Coleoptera.

Karl Jordan

In 1893 he began work at the Walter Rothschild's Museum at Tring, specialising in Coleoptera, Lepidoptera and Siphonaptera.

Laurent Chabry

He mainly worked in the flying mechanisms of birds and insects, and demonstrated the mechanism of "double equilibrium" in Coleoptera.

Long-tailed Widowbird

They also feed upon both insects, including species of beetles (Coleoptera), cicadas and aphids (Hemiptera), and spiders.

Louis Beguin-Billecocq

Louis Beguin-Billecocq (1865, Paris - 1957, Nemours) was a French diplomat and entomologist who specialised in Coleoptera and especially Curculionidae.

Lucas Friedrich Julius Dominikus von Heyden

Lucas Friedrich Julius Dominikus von Heyden (22 May 1838, Frankfurt - 13 September 1915, Frankfurt) was a German entomologist specialising in Coleoptera beetles.

Maurice Pic

Maurice Pic (23 March 1866, Marrigny near Digoin – 29 December 1957, Les Guerreaux) was a French entomologist who specialised in Coleoptera.

Metarhizium flavoviride

Metarhizium flavoviride is the name given to a group of fungal isolates that are known to be virulent against Hemiptera and some Coleoptera.

Oleg Leonidovich Kryzhanovsky

Oleg Leonidovich Kryzhanovsky (28 May 1918, Ekaterinburg-15 June 1997) was a Russian entomologist who specialised in Coleoptera especially Carabidae and Histeridae.

Roy Crowson

His collections of British Coleoptera are in the Hunterian Museum, Glasgow, and his collections of world families, including large quantities of microscope slides and dissections, in the Natural History Museum, London.

Rustem Devletovich Zhantiev

In 1966 he wrote his thesis "The taxonomic and ecological analysis of Sem. Dermestidae (Coleoptera)" and in 1980 his PhD on insect bioacoustics.

Tumbes Swallow

All Tachycineta swallows are known to be exclusive insectivores; only identified prey include Diptera, Coleoptera, Hymenoptera, Hemiptera, and Aranae.

Walter Karl Johann Roepke

Walter Karl Johann Roepke (1882, Hohensalza –1961, Wageningen ) was a German entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera and Coleoptera


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