Beetles
Curculionidae Lampyridae Cicindelidae Chrysomelidae Coccinellidae Meloidae miscellaneous and unidentified
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| These weevils (Cyrtotrachelus species) live in bamboos and make tasty snacks | |||
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| Macrochirus sp | leaf-rolling weevil (fam. Attelabidae) | Curculio spec. | |
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| probably a palm weevil, subfam. Rhynchophorinae | perhaps genus Bagous | primitive weevil, fam. Brentidae, tribe Cyphagogini | |
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| leaf-rolling weevil (fam. Attelabidae) | |||
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| this firefly got in the house and lit up the kitchen: more about fireflies | |||
| Cicindelidae | |||
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| Cicindelidae (tiger beetle) Neocollyris cylindripennis ? | "tiger beetle" : Cosmodela aurulenta juxtata- there were hundreds of them along a stream | saw this one at an elephant camp- Neocollyris fuscitarsis-no, Therates sp. Wrong again- Heptodonta pulchella Hope, 1831 (Cicindelini: Prothymina: Heptodonta) | another resident of our garden- Calochroa flavomaculata |
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| another tiger beetle: Cosmodela virgula all about Tiger beetles | another multicoloured tiger beetle Cosmodela aurulenta juxtata | Calochroa flavomaculata | Cosmodela aurulenta juxtata |
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There's now a book on Tiger beetles of Thailand by Roger Naviaux so I have even fewer excuses for not identifying things |
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| Chrysomelidae | |||
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| subfamily Galerucinae | Lilioceris quadripustulata | Lilioceris sp. (maybe impressa or laosensis) | Cryptocephalus sp |
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Podontia, subfamily Alticinae |
Podontia, subfamily Alticinae | probably Cassida circumdata | Aspidomorpha milearis (Cassidinae) |
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| I often find these Sagra beetles (Sagra femorata) in forest clearings doing their early morning tai chi | |||
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| They also engage in other forms of exercise | hispid beetle family: Chrysomelidae sub-family: Hispinae | ||
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Sagra formosa |
Looks like Sagra buqueti but this is only found in Malaysia | Sagra sp. | Sagra sp. |
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Synonycha grandis (Thundberg 1781) |
Lemnia biplagiata (Schwartz, 1808) | Ladybirds come with a variety of colours and patterns | |
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| Synonycha grandis again | Harmonia octomaculata (Fabricius, 1781) | ladybird plus gentlemanbird | |
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| plain coloured models are also available ... |
ladybird on the move |
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| HELP! there's a ladybird after me! (Tenebrionidae family) | |||
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| These beetles, which some Thais call 'tiger beetles' can strip a flower in less time than it takes to say 'Coleoptera' Mylabria cichorii (Meloidae) | |||
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| genus Horia | |||
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Miscellaneous and unidentified |
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| Lagriidae | Lycidae | fam. Tenebrionidae, tribe Leiochrini | Diamesus osculans (Silphidae) Carrion beetle |
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| Carabidae (Ground beetle) | Carabidae | fam. Endomychidae Ancylopus sp. | Trachylophorus sp. female |
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| Staphylinidae beetles that can secrete fluid causing contact dermatitis (two thoroughly nasty sounding individuals)-on the right genus Paederus | a ground beetle of the tribe Chlaeniini | Chrysomelidae Criocerinae Lema sp. | |
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| Dysticidae (Predacious diving beetle) Eretes Sticticus | Lycidae (Net-winged beetle) |
Brentidae (Primitve weevil) |
don't know what this is, {I do now, it's Helodidae, genus Scirtes} but it's pretty small (@50 mm long) |
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soldier beetle (Cantharidae) |
ground beetle of the Carabidae genus Panageus | carrion beetle (fam. Silphidae) Diamesus osculans | |
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| Cerambycidae | Geotrupinae, very much like Bolbohamatum drescheri (dung beetle) | ||
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| species of Lymexylidae (Coleoptera) | glow worm display (Lampyridae) | glow worm taken with the flash | |
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| Staphylinidae ? | |||
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thanks to Boris Buche, Stuart Cole, Jérôme Constant, Jerry Davidson, Michael Geiser, Colin Johnson, Denis Keith, Dr. V. N. Kuznetsov, German Lafer, Alessandro Marletta, Chamnong Pimphisan, Jack Simon and David Tang for help in identifying several species
The mistakes are all my own work
as of mid 2002 there is also a splendid book of Thai beetles: Beetles of Thailand by Pisuth Ek-Amnuay
and as of June 2004 on one Tiger beetles of Thailand by Roger Naviaux