The Coleoptera collection contains eight to ten million specimens and over one hundred thousand type specimens, housed in 22,000 drawers. The Museum’s Coleoptera collection is among the oldest and ...

I'm one of the curators of Coleoptera (beetles), specifically looking after the Elateroidea (including "Cantharoidea") and Chrysomelidae collections, occasionally also dealing with other beetle groups ...

Recent work on the strepsipteran wing structure has led to rejection of a suite of putative Coleoptera + Strepsiptera synapomorphies. A hypothesis of a Strepsiptera + Diptera monophylum has newly been ...