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Uniramia
--Centipedes
--Hexapoda 1 (insects)
--Hexapoda 2 (insects)
--Hexapoda 3 (insects)
--Identification to order level
--Insect orders
----Lepidoptera (butterflies, moths)
----Ephemeroptera (mayflies)
----Hemiptera (bugs, cicadas)
----Hymenoptera (bees, ants, wasps & saw flies)
------Bumblebees
----Coleoptera (beetles)
----Dictyoptera (mantids, cockroaches)
----Diptera (true flies)
----Neuroptera (lacewings, ant lions)
----Orthoptera (crickets, locusts)
----Thysanura (bristletails, silver fish)
----Strepsiptera (stylops)
----Thysanoptera (thrips)
----Odonata (dragonflies, damselflies)
----Trichoptera (caddis flies)
----Siphonaptera (fleas)
----Isoptera (termites)
----Phasmida (stick & leaf insects)
----Dermaptera (earwigs)
----Anoplura/siphunculata (sucking lice)
----Mallophaga (biting lice, bird lice)
----Psocoptera (book, bark, dust lice)
----Mecoptera (scorpion flies)
----Collembola (springtail)
----Embioptera (web spinners)
----Plecoptera (stone flies)
----Diplura (bristletails)
----Protura
----Zoraptera

Beetle fast facts, diagram of adult beetle body, list of featured species

Typical body shape of beetle families

typical Carabidae (ground beetle) adult body shape

Hygrobia tarda adult

Hygrobiidae

Silphidae, burying beetle, adult
Dermestidae, adult beetle
Endomychidae, adult fungus beetle
Propylea 14 punctata, Coccinellidae, adult ladybird
Anobiidae
Ptinidae
Tenebrionidae
Lucanidae, stag beetle, Lucanus cervus
Bruchidae adult beetle
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"If one could conclude as to the nature of the Creator from a study of creation, it would appear that God has an inordinate fondness for stars and beetles." —J.B.S. Haldane, 1951.