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Trechus
Trechus is a genus of ground beetle found in the Palearctic (including Europe), the Near East, and the highlands of East Africa. There are more than 1,000 described species in Trechus.
Medon
genus of insects
Attelabus
thumb|240px|Attelabus nitens on oak leaf
Titoceres
Titoceres is a genus of beetle in the family Cerambycidae.
Euporus
Euporus is a genus of beetles belonging to the large subfamily Cerambycinae in the family of longhorn beetles (Cerambycidae).
Lutrochus
Lutrochidae is a family of water beetles with a single genus Lutrochus sometimes known as "Travertine beetles". There are around 21 species native to the Americas from the southern United States to Brazil.
Abraeomorphus
Abraeomorphus is a genus of beetles belonging to the family Histeridae.
Chilothorax
thumb|Chilothorax lineolatus Chilothorax is a genus of scarab beetles in the family Scarabaeidae. There are more than 60 described species in Chilothorax, found in Europe, Asia, Africa, and North America.
Pachnessa
Pachnessa is a genus of beetles belonging to the family Scarabaeidae.
Trypeticus
Trypeticus is a genus of beetles belonging to the family Histeridae.
Xyleborinus
Xyleborinus is a genus of typical bark beetles in the family Curculionidae. There are more than 80 described species in Xyleborinus. thumb|Xyleborinus saxesenii
Doydirhynchus
Doydirhynchus is a genus of beetles belonging to the family Nemonychidae.
Bergrothia
Bergrothia is a genus of beetles belonging to the family Staphylinidae.
Bothriospila
Bothriospila is a genus of beetles in the family Cerambycidae, and the type genus of the tribe Bothriospilini. It contains two species: the type, Bothriospila elegans, found in Brazil and Paraguay, and Bothriospila pulcherrima, found in Brazil. The latter was described as a new species from Brazil in 2012. Bothriospila was circumscribed in 1923 by Swedish entomologist Per Olof Christopher Aurivillius.
Hoplapoderus
Hoplapoderus is a genus of attelabid weevil. Species in the genus are found mainly in Southeast Asia and South Asia. The pronotum typically has a pair of spines or protuberances and the vertex of the scutellum is conical. The elytra also have spines or protuberances.
Calyptocephala
Calyptocephala is a genus of beetle in the subfamily Cassidinae of family Chrysomelidae.
Megalopsidiinae
Megalopinus is the only genus in the subfamily Megalopsidiinae of the Staphylinidae. Species in this genus have large eyes, antennae with distinct di- or trisegmented clubs. The tarsal formula is 5-5-5. They have unique elongated processes at the anterior margin of the labrum. They are found in decaying trees and fungus-infested logs. Four species are found in North America: Megalopinus caelatus (Gravenhorst, 1802), Megalopinus punctatus (Erichson, 1840), Megalopinus rufipes (LeConte, 1863) and Megalopinus lingafelteri Mainda, 2023.
Somoplatus
Somoplatus is a genus of ground beetles in the family Carabidae. There are about 15 described species in Somoplatus, found in Africa and Europe.
Litocerus
Litocerus is a genus of beetles belonging to the Anthribidae family.
Gronops
Gronops is a genus of beetles belonging to the family Curculionidae.
Vata
genus of beetles
Sphindus
Sphindus is a genus of cryptic slime mold beetles in the family Sphindidae. There are at least three described species in Sphindus. thumb|Sphindus americanus
Scapanopygus
Scapanopygus cinereus is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae, the only species in the genus Scapanopygus. Both the genus and species were described in 1913 by French entomologist Pierre-Émile Gounelle. The type specimen was collected from Averías, a municipality in Argentina, on the banks of the Salado River.
Spodistes
Spodistes is a genus of beetles. It has eight species.
Lamprobyrrhulus
Lamprobyrrhulus is a genus of beetles belonging to the family Byrrhidae.
Timbaraba
Timbaraba dispar is a species of beetle in the tribe Bothriospilini (family Cerambycidae), and the only species in the genus Timbaraba. Both the genus and its species were described in 2004 by Brazilian entomologists Marcela Laura Monné and Dilma Solange Napp. Timbaraba dispar occurs in Venezuela. It has filiform (threadlike) antennae with 11 segments, and a trapezoidal mentum. The genus name Timbaraba – an indigenous word that means "sprinkles of white" – refers to the eburneous (resembling ivory) callosities that occur on the elytra.
Dreposcia
Dreposcia is a genus of beetles belonging to the family Leiodidae.
Allocotocerus
Allocotocerus is a genus of water beetles in the family Hydrophilidae, first described by Ernst Gustav Kraatz in 1883. The decision for synonymy is based on Hansen (1999).
Phalacrus
genus of insects