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COLEOPTERA ( Beetles)

In this section you can find more than 500 different species of insects from Paleartic region for your collection or study.

Some species we have in stock are rare and discontinued but most of them are common beetles that we collect during our trips in Italy and Greece sold for a fair price and many others you find come from exchanges with other ...

In this section you can find more than 500 different species of insects from Paleartic region for your collection or study.

Some species we have in stock are rare and discontinued but most of them are common beetles that we collect during our trips in Italy and Greece sold for a fair price and many others you find come from exchanges with other collegues entomologists from all Europe.

All beetles are sold as A1 ( or A1- when specified ) with full collecting data, sold per single specimen, pairs or lots, they have been professionally collected, mostly hunted in fields or by light-trap, killed with the best methods to keep their legs very soft to be spread and mounted, then well preserved in sealed boxes with Camphor to prevent that pests can ruin them.

Some of these have been collected in tree-traps, pitfall-traps, dungs, these have already been accurately washed and rinsed, no hassles and no need to wash our specimens before you decide to prepare them.

All specimens are sealed in blisters ( cardboard , soft paper, cellophane on top and staples ) to protect them during shipping, some other soft bodied insects, are in tubes under preservant fluids.

Once you receive them , before you start mounting them, these specimens dry in blisters must be soften in humid box to get soft their appendix and legs.  

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  • CARABIDAE (Ground...

    Ground beetles are a large, cosmopolitan family of beetles, Carabidae, with more than 40,000 species worldwide, around 2,000 of which are found in North America and 2,700 in Europe.

     It is one of the ten largest animal families.

    ALL OUR BEETLES ARE SOLD SEALED IN BLISTERS  QUALITY A1 ( A1- when specified )

  • TENEBRIONIDAE...

    Darkling beetle is the common name of the large family of beetles, Tenebrionidae. The number of species in the Tenebrionidae is estimated at more than 20,000 and the family is cosmopolitan. Humans spread some species sufficiently that they became cosmopolitan.

    ALL OUR BEETLES ARE SOLD SEALED IN BLISTERS  QUALITY A1 ( A1- when specified )

  • CERAMBYCIDAE (Longhorn...

    The longhorn beetles (Cerambycidae; also known as long-horned or longhorn beetles or longicorns) are a cosmopolitan family of beetles, typically characterized by extremely long antennae, which are often as long as or longer than the beetle's body. In various members of the family, however, the antennae are quite short (e.g., Neandra brunnea) and such species can be difficult to distinguish from related beetle families such as the Chrysomelidae. The family is large, with over 26,000 species described, slightly more than half from the Eastern Hemisphere. Several are serious pests. The larvae, called roundheaded borers, bore into wood, where they can cause extensive damage to either living trees or untreated lumber 

    ALL OUR BEETLES ARE SOLD SEALED IN BLISTERS  QUALITY A1 ( A1- when specified )

  • SCARABAEINAE ( Dung...

    Dung beetles are beetles that feed partly or exclusively on dung. A dung beetle can bury dung 250 times heavier than itself in one night.

    Many dung beetles, known as rollers, roll dung into round balls, which are used as a food source or breeding chambers. Others, known as tunnelers, bury the dung wherever they find it. A third group, the dwellers, neither roll nor burrow: they simply live in manure. They are often attracted by the dung collected by burrowing owls. Dung Beetles can grow to 3 cm long and 2 cm wide.

    All the species belong to the superfamily Scarabaeoidea; most of them to the subfamilies Scarabaeinae and Aphodiinae of the family Scarabaeidae (scarab beetles). As most species of Scarabaeinae feed exclusively on feces, that subfamily is often dubbed true dung beetles. There are dung-feeding beetles which belong to other families, such as the Geotrupidae (the earth-boring dung beetle). The Scarabaeinae alone comprises more than 5,000 species.

    Dung beetles are currently the only known non-human animal to navigate and orient themselves using the Milky Way

    ALL OUR BEETLES ARE SOLD SEALED IN BLISTERS  QUALITY A1 ( A1- when specified )

  • MELOLONTHINAE (Scarab...

    Melolonthinae is a subfamily of the scarab beetles (family Scarabaeidae). It is a very diverse group; distributed over most of the world, it contains many familiar species. Some authors include the scarab subfamilies Euchirinae and Pachypodinae as tribes in the Melolonthinae.

    Unlike some of their relatives, their habitus is usually not bizarre. They resemble the Rutelinaein being fairly plesiomorphic in outward appearance. Like in many Scarabaeidae, males have large fingered antennae, while those of the females are smaller and somewhat knobby. In the Melolonthinae, this sexual dimorphism is particularly pronounced. Many species have striking – though rarely brilliant or iridescent – hues and bold patterns of hairs.

    Being often quite sizeable and swarming in numbers at certain times, for example the Amphimallon, Phyllophaga and Polyphylla "june beetles" 

    ALL OUR BEETLES ARE SOLD SEALED IN BLISTERS  QUALITY A1 ( A1- when specified )

  • CETONIINAE ( Flower...

    Flower chafers are a group of scarab beetles, comprising the subfamily Cetoniinae. Many species are diurnal and visit flowers for pollenand nectar, or to browse on the petals. Some species also feed on fruit. The group is also called fruit and flower chafers, flower beetlesand flower scarabs. There are around 4,000 species, many of them still undescribed.

    ALL OUR BEETLES ARE SOLD SEALED IN BLISTERS  QUALITY A1 ( A1- when specified )

  • RUTELIDAE ( Flower...
  • GEOTRUPIDAE (dung...
  • CHRYSOMELIDAE ( Leaf...
  • STAPHYLINIDAE (...

    The rove beetles are a family (Staphylinidae) of beetles, primarily distinguished by their short elytra (wing covers) that typically leave more than half of their abdomens exposed. With roughly 63,000 species in thousands of genera, the group is currently recognized as the largest extant family of beetles. It is an ancient group, with fossil rove beetles known from the Triassic, 200 million years ago, and possibly even earlier if the genus Leehermania proves to be a member of this family.

    They are an ecologically and morphologically diverse group of beetles, and commonly encountered in terrestrial ecosystems.

    ALL OUR BEETLES ARE SOLD SEALED IN BLISTERS  QUALITY A1 ( A1- when specified )

  • CURCULIONIDAE-...

    The Curculionidae comprise the family of the "true" weevils (or "snout beetles"). It is one the largest animal families, with 5,489 genera and 86,100  species described worldwide.

    It also includes the bark beetles as subfamily Scolytinae, which are modified in shape in accordance with their wood-boring lifestyle. They do not much resemble other weevils, so they were traditionally considered a distinct family, Scolytidae. The family also includes the ambrosia beetles, of which the present-day subfamily Platypodinae was formerly considered the distinct family Platypodidae.

    ALL OUR BEETLES ARE SOLD SEALED IN BLISTERS  QUALITY A1 ( A1- when specified )

  • DYNASTINAE

    Dynastinae or rhinoceros beetles are a subfamily of the scarab beetle family (Scarabaeidae). Other common names – some for particular groups of rhinoceros beetles – are for example Hercules beetles, unicorn beetles or horn beetles. Over 300 species of rhinoceros beetles are known.

    Many rhinoceros beetles are well known for their unique shapes and large sizes. Some famous species are, for example, the Atlas beetle (Chalcosoma atlas), common rhinoceros beetle (Xylotrupes ulysses), elephant beetle (Megasoma elephas), European rhinoceros beetle (Oryctes nasicornis), Hercules beetle (Dynastes hercules), Japanese rhinoceros beetle or kabutomushi (Allomyrina dichotoma), ox beetle (Strategus aloeus) and the Eastern Hercules beetle (Dynastes tityus).

  • MELOIDAE ( Blister...
  • SCARABAEIDAE APHODIINAE
  • BUPRESTIDAE ( Jewels...
  • ELATERIDAE ( Click...
  • LUCANIDAE ( Stag...
  • GLAPHYRIDAE Bumble bee...

    In this section you can find more than 500 different species of insects from Paleartic zone for your collection or study.

    Some species we have in stock are rare and discontinued but most of them are common beetles that we collect during our trips in Italy and Greece sold for a fair price and many others you find come from exchanges with other collegues entomologists from all Europe.

    All beetles are sold as A1 ( or A1- when specified ) with full collecting data, sold per single specimen, pairs or lots, they have been professionally collected, mostly hunted in fields or by light-trap, killed with the best methods to keep their legs very soft to be spread and mounted, then well preserved in sealed boxes with Camphor to prevent that pests can ruin them.

    Some of these have been collected in tree-traps, pitfall-traps, dungs, these have already been accurately washed and rinsed, no hassles and no need to wash our specimens before you decide to prepare them.

    All specimens are sealed in blisters ( cardboard , soft paper, cellophane on top and staples ) to protect them during shipping, some other soft bodied insects, are in tubes under preservant fluids.

    Once you receive them , before you start mounting them, these specimens dry in blisters must be soften in humid box to get soft their appendix and legs.

    Some beetles, when specified in the listing, can be sent mounted on glue boards ( from ex collections ) JUST GLUED NON PINNED AS WELL , you can keep them ready like this or change softening and removing the glue, soaking in water for some minutes

    These insects are perfect if you are already a keen collector and professional entomologist or if you just want to start a collection for study, show them or as a hobby, starting your children to this fascinating world.

    We have a good stock of many different families and genus these are also good for teaching in schools, with a minimum amount of money you can get lots of different species.

    If you search for other species and you cannot find them in the actual stock list ask us anyway, we will put the ones you are searching for in our wish list and maybe we can find in our next hunting trips or we can also try finding them from other collegues entomologists as we have lots of contacts in all Europe and elsewhere.

    We also sell wholesale for certain species that are quite common or widespread in the localities where we usually go hunting.

    PLEASE NOTE THAT NONE OF THE SPECIMENS OF INSECTS WE TRADE AND SELL ARE ENDARGERED SPECIES AND NONE OF THEM ARE PROTECTED BY CITES

    FOR YOUR SAFETY WE WILL LABEL THE PACKAGE AS CONTAINING DRIED INSECTS FOR STUDY WITH NO COMMERCIAL VALUE TO AVOID YOU TAXES

    WE DO NOT SELL OR SHIP ALIVE INSECTS

  • SILPHIDAE ( Carrion...
  • CLERIDAE (...
  • OTHER FAMILIES

    In this section you find the families of beetles that we don't usually hunt, these are collected mostly and occasionally in traps for other insects,  for this reason we do not have many species listed and this is why we have put them all together in this file.

    Availability of these families of beetles and their species can be discontinued and not always in stock

    We will add more families here as soon as we find different ones during our hunting trips

  • MIXED LOTS - VARIOUS...

    Here are listed mixed lots of beetles of different Families and genus mostly common or unidentified especially sold for study or schools at a real fair price