Longhorn beetle waterhousei beetle pair

inae Cerambycinae Disteniinae Laminae Lepturinae Necydalinae Paradrinae Prioninae Spondylidinae etc. The longhorn beetles (Cerambycidae) are a family of beetles notable for their extremely long antennae, which are often as long as or longer than the beetle's body. The family is large, with over 20,000 species described. Several are serious pests, with the larvae boring into wood, where they can cause extensive damage to either living trees or to wood in buildings; the house longhorn Hylotrupes bajulus being a particular problem indoors. A number of species mimic ants and wasps, while a majority of species are cryptically colored. The rare giant long-horned beetle (Titanus giganteus) from northeastern South America is the largest (though not the heaviest, and not the longest including legs) insect, with a body length of nearly 17 centimeters. See more at Wikipedia.org...

>For other uses, see Beetle (disambiguation). Adephaga Archostemata Myxophaga Polyphaga See subgroups of the order Coleoptera Beetles are one of the main groups of insects. Their order, Coleoptera (meaning "sheathed wing"), has more species in it than any other order in the entire animal kingdom. Forty percent of all described insect species are beetles (about 350,000 species), and new species are regularly discovered. Estimates put the total number of species — described and undescribed — at between 5 and 8 million. This is why, when J. B. S. Haldane, a British geneticist, was asked what his studies of nature revealed about God, he replied, "An inordinate fondness for beetles". See more at Wikipedia.org...