Beetle
Beetles are a group of insects that form the order Coleoptera. The word "coleoptera" is from the Greek κολεός, koleos, meaning "sheath"; and πτερόν, pteron, meaning "wing", thus "sheathed wing", because most beetles have two pairs of wings, the front pair, the "elytra", being hardened and thickened into a shell-like protection for the rear pair and the beetle's abdomen. The order contains more species than any other order, constituting almost 25% of all known animal life-forms. About 40% of all described insect species are beetles (about 400,000 species), and new species are discovered frequently. The largest taxonomic family, the Curculionidae (the weevils or snout beetles), also belongs to this order.
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Beetle
Beetles are a group of insects that form the order Coleoptera. The word "coleoptera" is from the Greek κολεός, koleos, meaning "sheath"; and πτερόν, pteron, meaning "wing", thus "sheathed wing", because most beetles have two pairs of wings, the front pair, the "elytra", being hardened and thickened into a shell-like protection for the rear pair and the beetle's abdomen. The order contains more species than any other order, constituting almost 25% of all known animal life-forms. About 40% of all described insect species are beetles (about 400,000 species), and new species are discovered frequently. The largest taxonomic family, the Curculionidae (the weevils or snout beetles), also belongs to this order.
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Beetles are a group of insects ...... females in sexual dimorphism.
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Chrząszcze, tęgopokrywe (Coleo ...... równo ląd, jak i wody słodkie.
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Die Käfer (Coleoptera) sind mi ...... Hirschkäfer (Lucanus cervus).
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I coleotteri (Coleoptera Linna ...... ervo volante (Lucanus cervus).
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Kevers (Coleoptera) zijn een o ...... van de kevers ingedeeld wordt.
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Les coléoptères (Coleoptera) s ...... es est nommée coléoptérologie.
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Los coleópteros (Coleoptera) ( ...... que les inhabilita para volar.
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Os coleópteros (Coleoptera) co ...... nte no combate a estas pragas.
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Жесткокры́лые, или жуки́ (лат. ...... , называется колеоптерологией.
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الخنافس (بالإنجليزية: Beetles) ...... ور مهم في المقاومة البيولوجية.
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Head of Cephalota circumdata, showing the compound eyes and mouthparts
Scarabaeus viettei showing a "shovel head" adaptation
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(Late Carboniferous–Holocene)
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Clockwise from top left: femal ...... , and a species of Amblytelus.
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* Adephaga
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* My ...... groups of the order Coleoptera
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Beetles are a group of insects ...... ), also belongs to this order.
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Chrząszcze, tęgopokrywe (Coleo ...... równo ląd, jak i wody słodkie.
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Die Käfer (Coleoptera) sind mi ...... etwa 265 Millionen Jahre alt.
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I coleotteri (Coleoptera Linna ...... eri sia in continua revisione.
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Kevers (Coleoptera) zijn een o ...... het grote publiek bekend zijn.
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Les coléoptères (Coleoptera) s ...... membraneuses, servent au vol.
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Los coleópteros (Coleoptera) ( ...... dípteros (moscas, mosquitos).
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Os coleópteros (Coleoptera) co ...... aumentativo de abeja (abelha).
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Жесткокры́лые, или жуки́ (лат. ...... азны: от 0,3—1,0 мм до 171 мм.
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الخنافس (بالإنجليزية: Beetles) ...... تات والفطريات واللافقاريات وقض
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Beetle
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Chrząszcze
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Coleoptera
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Coleoptera
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Coleoptera
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Kevers
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Käfer
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Жесткокрылые
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خنافس
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