NC STATE AGNIC SYSTEMATIC ENTOMOLOGY: A GUIDE TO ONLINE INSECT SYSTEMATIC RESOURCES

Arnett, R. H., Jr.  1960-1963.  The Beetles of the United States (a Manual for Identification).  American Entomological Institute, Ann Arbor, Michigan.  xii + 1112 pp.  [keys to family and genera of U.S. families;  NCSU Libraries: QL583.A7]

Arnett, R. H. (ed.) 1974-1983.  Checklist of the Beetles of North and Central America and the West Indies. Flora and Fauna Publications, Gainesville, Florida.  10 Volumes, loose leaf. 2173 pp.  [list of the species that occur in the North American region from the Arctic through Panama, see American Entomological Institute Memoir 35 for Curculionidae; NCSU Libraries: QL474.A76 1985]

Arnett, R. H., Jr.  1990.  Present and future of systematics of the Coleoptera in North America.  pp. 165-173.  In Kosztarab, M., and C. W. Schaefer (eds.).  Systematics of the North American Insects and Arachnids: Status and Needs.  (Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station Information Series 90-1.)  Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg.  xii + 247 pp.  [NCSU Libraries: S541.5.V5 I53]

Arnett, R. H., N. M. Downie, and H. E. Jaques.  1980.  How to Know the Beetles.  2nd edition.  The Pictured Key Nature Series.  W. C. Brown, Dubuque, Iowa.  416 pp.  [keys to family and to species for common beetles NCSU Libraries: QL583.J3 1980]

Balthasar, V.  1963-1964.  Monographie der Scarabaeidae und Aphodiidae der palaearktischen und orientalischen Region; Coleoptera: Lamellicornia.  Tschechoslowakische Akademie der Wissenschaften.  [NCSU Libraries: QL596.S3 B3]

Bell, R. T., et. al., 1978.  Insecta: Coleoptera. pp. 1053-1209.  In Dindal, D. L. (ed.).  Soil Biology Guide. J. Wiley and Sons, New York. xviii + 1349 pp.  [keys to family and species for important soil-inhabiting families; NCSU Libraries Reference Collection: QH84.8.S632 1990]

Bertrand, H. 1954.  Les Insectes Aquatiques d'Europe. Paul LeChevalier, Paris, France. 2 volumes. 556 pp.  [French keys to genera; NCSU Libraries: QL482.B47, v.1-2.]

Bertrand, H.  1972.  Larves et Nymphales des Coléoptères Aquatiques du Globe, avec Tableaux de Determination.  F. Paillart (sold by the author), Paris.  804 pp.  [errata and addenda published in 1977]

Bily, S.  1982.  The Buprestidae (Coleoptera) of Fennoscandia and Denmark.  Fauna Entomologica Scandinavica 10; i-x, 1-210.  Brill Publication Co., New York.  [keys to species; NCSU Libraries: QL461.N4]

Blackwelder, R. E. 1957.  Checklist of the coleopterous insects of Mexico, Central America, the West Indies and South America, Part 6.  United States National Museum Bulletin 185:927-1492 [Source: UNC-CH]

Blatchley, W. S.  1910.  An Illustrated and Descriptive Catalogue of the Coleoptera or Beetles (Exclusive of Rhynchophora) Known to Occur in Indiana.  Nature Publ. Co., Indianapolis, Ind.  1385 pp.  [NCSU Libraries: QL584.I5 B4]

Blatchley, W. S., and C. W. Leng.  1916.  Rhynchophora or Weevils of North Eastern America. Nature Publ. Co., Indianapolis, Indiana. 682 pp.  [NCSU Libraries: QL596.C9 B5]

Boving, A. G., and F. C. Craighead.  1931.  An Illustrated Synopsis of the Principal Larval Forms of the Order Coleoptera.  The Brooklyn Entomological Society, Brooklyn, New York.  351 pp.  [keys to family; NCSU Libraries: QL573.B6]

Bradley, J. C.  1930.  A Manual of the Genera of Beetles of America North of Mexico.  Daw, Illiston and Company, Ithaca, New York. x + 360 pp.  [NCSU Libraries: QL581.B7]

Bright, D. E.  1993.  The Weevils of Canada and Alaska.  Vol. 1.  Coleoptera: Curculionoidea except Scolytidae and Curculionidae. Insects and Arachnids of Canada 21:1-217.  [keys to species; NCSU Libraries: QL585.B74 1993]

Britton, E. B.  1970.  Coleoptera (beetles).  pp. 495-621. In Mackerras, I. M. (ed.).  The Insects of Australia.  A Textbook for Students and Research Workers.  [1st edition].  Melbourne University Press, Carlton, Australia.  xiii + 1029.  [illustrated keys to world families for immatures and adults;  NCSU Libraries: QL487.I5]

Broun, T.  1880.  Manual of the New Zealand Coleoptera. Command, Wellington, New Zealand. xix + 973.  [NCSU Libraries: QL594.B76, v.1]

A Catalog of the Coleoptera of America North of Mexico. 1982 -    . U. S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. [NCSU Libraries: Gov. Doc. A 1.76:529-95]

Cassis, G.,  W. W. K. Houston, T. A. Weir, and B. P. Moore.  1992.  Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea.  Zoological Catalogue of Australia 9:[i]-xi, 1-544.  [NCSU Libraries: QL338.Z66 1983]

Cherepanov, A. I. 1988. Cerambycidae of Northern Asia. Amerind Publishing Company, New Delhi, India. 3 volumes.  [translated into English from the Russian; NCSU Libraries: QL596.C4 C5372513.]

Costa Lima, A. M. da. 1952-1956.  Insetos do Brasil. Coleoptera. Rio de Janeiro. Escola Nacional de Agronomia. Série Didática 2. Officinas de obras do Jornal do commercio mia. (Vols. 7-10).  [NCSU Libraries: QL481.B7 C6, v.7-10]

Crowson, R. A.  1955.  The Natural Classification of the Families of Coleoptera.  N. Lloyd, London.  187 pp.  [see 1968 edition, which is a reprint of this edition with "addenda et corrigenda;" NCSU Libraries: QL482.G8 R58]

Crowson, R. A.  1968.  The Natural Classification of the Families of Coleoptera.  E. W. Classey, Hampton, Middlesex.  214 pp.  [modified classification of Coleoptera with keys to family providing the basis for theoretical discussion of the systematics of the order; NCSU Libraries: QL577.C77 1967]

Dillon, E. S., and L. S. Dillon.  1961.  A Manual of Common Beetles of Eastern North America.  Row, Peterson, Evanston, Illinois.  viii + 884 pp.  [NCSU Libraries: QL581.D5]

Dindal, D. (ed.). 1990.  Soil Biology Guide.  John Wiley & Sons, New York.  xviii + 1349 pp.  [Coleoptera: chapters 35 - 40 by various authors; NCSU Libraries Reference Collection: QH84.8.S632]

Downie, N. M., and R. H. Arnett, Jr.  1996.  The Beetles of Northeastern North America.  Sandhill Crane Press, Gainesville, Florida.  2 Vols., 1720 pp.  [keys to family, genera and species; NCSU Libraries: QL584.N67 D68 1994]

Edwards, J. G. 1949. Coleoptera or Beetles East of the Great Plains. J. Edwards, Ann Arbor, Michigan. 181 pp.  [NCSU Libraries: QL583.E3]

Endrodi, S. 1985. The Dynastinae of the World. Akademiai Kiado, Budapest, Hungary. 800 pp.  [NCSU Libraries: QL596.S3 E53]

Farrell, B. D.  1998.  "Inordinate fondess" explained: Why are there so many beetles?  Science 281:555-559. [NCSU Libraries: Q1.S25]

Gordon, R. D. 1985.  The Coccinellidae (Coleoptera) of America North of Mexico. Journal of the New York Entomological Society. 93(1)1-912.  [NCSU Libraries: QL461.N4] 

Hawkeswood, T. J.  1987.  Beetles of Australia.  Angus & Robertson, North Ryde, N.S.W.  248 pp. 

Headstrom, R. 1977. The Beetles of America. A. S. Barnes, London, England. 488 pp.  [NCSU Libraries: QL583.H4 1975]

Heyden, L.F.J.D. von.  1880-1881.  Catalog der Coleopteren von Sibirien, mit Einschluss derjenigen der Turanischen Lander, Turkestans und der chinisischen Grenzgebiete.  A.W. Schade, Berlin.  224 pp.  [in German, von der Deutschen entomologischen Gesellschaft; NCSU Libraries: QL577.H46]

Kissinger, D. G.  1964.  Curculionidae of America North of Mexico.  A Key to the Genera.  Taxonomic Publ., South Lancaster, Mass.  v + 143 pp.  [NCSU Libraries: QL596.C9 K56]

Klausnitzer, B.  1978.  Ordnung Coleoptera (Larven).  Dr. W. Junk, The Hague.  378 pp.  [NCSU Libraries: QL577.K580]

Koch, K. C. 1989. Die Kafer Mitteleuropas. Goeke and Evers, Krefeld, Germany. 8 volumes.  [catalog of middle European Coleoptera species; NCSU Libraries: QL591.C36 K63 1989, v.1-8]

Kukalová-Peck, J., and J. F. Lawrence.  1993.  Evolution of the hind wing in Coleoptera.  Canadian Entomologist 125:181-258. [NCSU Libraries: QL461.C3]

Lawrence, J. F.  1982.  Coleoptera.  pp. 483-553.  In Parker, S. P. (ed.).  Synopsis and Classification of Living Organisms.  McGraw-Hill, New York. Vol. 2.  vi + 1232 pp.  [NCSU Libraries: QH83.S89]

Lawrence, J. F.  1994.  Australian Beetles.  Melbourne University Press, Carlton, Australia. x +192 pp.  [keys to family for adults and larvae, similar material is in Insects of Australia; NCSU Libraries: QL594.L39 1994]

Lawrence, J. F. (coordinator), and 27 others.  1991.  Order Coleoptera.  pp. 144 - 658.  In Stehr, F. W. (ed.)  Immature Insects.  Kendall/Hunt, Dubuque, Iowa.  Vol. 2.  xvi + 975 pp.  [keys to the families of the world; NCSU Libraries: QL468.I44 1987]

Lawrence, J. F., and E. B. Britton.  1991.  Coleoptera.  pp. 543-683. In CSIRO (ed.).  The Insects of Australia.  A Textbook for Students and Research Workers.  2nd edition.  Melbourne University Press, Carlton, Australia.  2 volumes.  xvii + 1137 + vi pp.  [NCSU Libraries: QL487.I5 1991]

Lawrence, J. F., P. B. P. Moore, J. E. Pyke, and T. A. Weir.  1987.  Coleoptera: Archostemata, Myxophaga and Adephaga.  Zoological Catalogue of Australia 4:[i]-viii, 1-444.  [NCSU Libraries: QL338.Z66 1983]

Leng, C. W. et al.  1920-48.  Catalogue of the Coleoptera of America North of Mexico.  J. D. Sherman, Mt. Vernon, New York.  Original catalogue, 1920: x + 470 pp.; 1st supplement, Leng, C. W. and A. J. Mutchler, 1927: 78 pp.; 2nd and 3rd supplements Leng, C. W. and A. J. Mutchler, 1933: 112 pp.; 4th supplement, Blackwelder, R. E., 1939: 146 pp.; 5th supplement, Blackwelder, R. E. and R. M. Blackwelder, 1948: 87 pp.  [catalog and bibliography; NCSU Libraries: QL581.L4 1978]

Linssen, E. F. 1959. Beetles of the British Isles. The Wayside and Woodland Series, First and Second Series. 2 volumes.  [Vol. 1. Caraboidea, Palicornia, Staphylinoidea, and Diversicornia, 300 pp. Vol. 2. Clavicornia, Heteromera, Lamellicornia, Phytophaga and Rhynchophora, 295 pp.]  F. Warne & Co., London.  [NCSU Libraries: QL591.G8]

Merritt, R. W., and K. W. Cummins (eds.).  1996.  An Introduction to the Aquatic Insects of North America.  3rd edition.  Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co., Dubuque, Iowa.  xiii + 862 pp.  [keys to families and genera; NCSU Libraries: QL473.I57 1996] 

Monné, M. A., and E. F. Giesbert.  1994.  Checklist of the Cerambycidae and Sisteniidae (Coleoptera) of the Western Hemisphere.  Wolfsgarden Books, Burbank, California.  xiv + 410 pp.  [NCSU Libraries: QL596.C4 M65 1994]

Pakaluk, J., and S. A. Slipinski (eds.). 1995.  Biology, Phylogeny, and Classification of Coleoptera: Papers Celebrating the 80th Birthday of Roy A. Crowson.  Muzeum & Instytut Zoologii PAN, Warszawa, Poland.  x + 1092 pp.  [Source: Duke University]

Peterson, A.  1951.  Larvae of Insects.  Part II.  Coleoptera, Diptera, Neuroptera, Siphonaptera, Mecoptera, Trichoptera.  Edwards Brothers, Ann Arbor, Michigan.  v + 416 pp.  [keys; NCSU Libraries: QL494.P4]

Platia, G.  1994.  Coleoptera, Elateridae.  Fauna d'Italia (Edizioni Calderini, Bologna, Italy) 33:i-xiv, 1-429.  [in Italian, keys to genera and species in Italian and English; NCSU Libraries: QL596.E4 P57 1994]

Schenkling, G., and W. Junk.  1910-40.  Coleopterum Catalogus 1-70.  W. Junk Verlag, Berlin.  [NCSU Libraries: QL577.C6]

Stebbing, E. P.  1914.  Indian Forest Insects of Economic Importance.  Coleoptera.  Eyre and Spottiswoode, London. xvi + 648 pp.  [NCSU Libraries: QL577.S72]

White, R. E.  1983.  A Field Guide to the Beetles of North America.  The Peterson Field Guide Series 29.  Houghton Mifflin, Boston.  xii + 368 pp.  [NCSU Libraries: QL581.W47 1983]

White, D. S., and W. U. Brigham.  1996.  Aquatic Coleoptera.  pp. 399-473.  In Merritt, R. W., and K. W. Cummins (eds.).  An Introduction to the Aquatic Insects of North America.  3rd edition.  Kendall/Hunt, Dubuque.  xiii + 862 pp.  [keys to family for adults and immatures; NCSU Libraries: Q473.I57 1996]

Winkler, A.  1924-1932, 1938.  Catalogus coleopterorum regionis  Palaearcticae.  Alphalbetisches artregister der umfangreichen general im Catalogus coleopterorum regionis palaearctica von A. Winkler, zusammengestellt von Adolf Gassner.  A. Winkler, Wien.  Parts A-F (various pagination).  [NCSU Libraries: Microform 4110.1 (1924-1932); QL577.W56i 1938, index]

Yanega, D.  1996.  Field guide to northeastern longhorn beetles (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae).  Illinois Natural History Survey Manual 6:1-184. [NCSU Libraries: QL596.C4 Y36 1996]

Zimmerman, E. C.  1994.  Australian Weevils.  CSIRO, East Melbourne, Australia.  8 volumes.  [checklists and keys to species; NCSU Libraries: QL594.Z56 1991]    

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