This three-volume series represents a comprehensive treatment of the beetles of Australia, a
relatively under-studied fauna that includes many unusual and unique lineages found …

Recently, McKenna et al., 2015 (MCK15 hereafter) investigated the higher level
phylogenetic relationships of beetles (Insecta, Coleoptera) using the most comprehensive …

Ladybirds (family Coccinellidae) are one of the most diverse groups of beetles and globally
comprise over 6000 species. Despite their scientific and economic significance, the …

Dermestidae (Bostrichoidea) exploit diverse food sources including fungal mycelia, but
notably they as saprophagous, feeding on decomposing and dried flesh and keratin of …

With 35 Cretaceous outcrops yielding fossil insects, either in amber or as rock (marls,
limestones, cinerite, or dysodile) impressions-compressions (adpressions), Lebanon has …

Fossils in amber are a particularly important and unique palaeobiological resource. Amber
is best known for preserving exceptionally life-like fossils, including microscopic anatomical …

This paper overviews more than 39 families of fossil Coleoptera from Lower Cretaceous
Lebanese amber from nine outcrops. Lebanese amber contains the oldest representatives …

The first and last occurrences of hexapod families in the fossil record are compiled from
publications up to end-2009. The major features of these data are compared with those of …

A catalogue of all the known genera and subgenera of the Coleoptera series
Derodontiformia and Bostrichiformia, each with a single superfamily (Derodontoidea and …

 Abstract More than 4700 nominal family-group names (including names for fossils and
ichnotaxa) are nomenclaturally available in the order Coleoptera. Since each family-group …