JMMS BioBlitz 2014 - Insects

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Taxonomy
« Back To Winged and Once-winged Insects Subclass Pterygota
- Beetles Order Coleoptera
  - 1 Ground and Water Beetles Suborder Adephaga
  - 2 Water, Rove, Scarab, Long-horned, Leaf, and Snout Beetles Suborder Polyphaga

Tiger Beetles

Tiger beetles are a large group of beetles known for their aggressive predatory habits and running speed. The fastest species of tiger beetle can run at a speed of 9 km/h (5.6 mph), which, relative to its body length, is about 22 times the speed of former Olympic sprinter Michael Johnson, the equivalent of a human running at 480 miles per hour (770 km/h). As of 2005, about 2,600 ...more ↓

Blister Beetles

Blister beetles are beetles (Coleoptera) of the family Meloidae, so called for their defensive secretion of a blistering agent, cantharidin. There are approximately 7,500 known species worldwide. Many are conspicuous and some aposematically colored, announcing their toxicity to would-be predators.

Valley elderberry longhorn beetle

The valley elderberry longhorn beetle, Desmocerus californicus dimorphus, is a subspecies of longhorn beetle native to the riparian forests of the Central Valley of California from Redding to Bakersfield. It is listed as a Federally threatened species, although it is likely to be removed from the endangered species list.