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Beetle
order of insects / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Beetles, the order Coleoptera, are the largest group of insects. There are 350,000 different species of beetles which have been named: about 40% of all known insects.[1] There are an estimated 800,000 to a million living species.[2] Beetles live almost everywhere, though not in the ocean or in places that are very cold, such as Antarctica.[3]
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Colorado beetle, Leptinotarsa decemlineata | |
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Order: | Coleoptera Linnaeus, 1758 |
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Beetles went through a massive adaptive radiation early in their evolutionary history. The evolution of flowering plants helped drive the diversification of beetles.[4] Four of the six biggest families of beetles mainly eat flowering plants.