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beetle

order of insects whose wings serve as a protective shell
Class type of: insect Q22671

Facts

15 properties
Instance of
taxon
Subclass of
insect
Described by source
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890), Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[12][13][14][15]
Different from
Tieke[26]
IPA transcription
ˌkoʊliˈɑptəɹə[11]
On focus list of Wikimedia project
Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
Parent taxon
Endopterygota, Holometabola, Coleopterida, Coleopteroidea[4][5][6][7]
Serbo-Croatian preferred project code
sr
Start time
-318000000-00-00T00:00:00Z[10]
Studied by
coleopterology[27]
Taxon common name
Beetles, Coléoptère, ciaróg, biller, coleopteran, الخنافس, غمديات الأجنحة, غمدية الأجنحة, hrošči[17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25]
Taxon name
Coleoptera[8]
Taxon rank
order[3]
Temporal range start
Lopingian[9]
Topic has template
Template:Coleoptera[16]
🏷️ Also known as
en beetle en coleopterans en beetles en coleopteran ar غمديات الأجنحة ar خنفسيات ar الخنفساء ar غمدية الأجنحة ar خنفساء ar خنفسة ar خنافس cs brouci da biller de Coleopteren de Käfer el Κολεόπτερο el Κολεόπτερα es coleoptero es escarabajos es escarabajo
🔖 Identifiers · 91
Library of Congress authority ID
sh85012867
GND ID
4130263-1
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Lucanus cervus.jpg ↗
A Dictionary of Biology ID
944
ADW taxon ID
Coleoptera
Arab Encyclopedia concept ID
7140
Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID
300310502
Australian Educational Vocabulary ID
scot/2341
Australian Faunal Directory ID
Coleoptera
BBC Things ID
88ace7ec-bbd6-4948-b3f2-bb307f38be66
BNCF Thesaurus ID
633
BOLD Systems taxon ID
413
Show all 91 identifiers +79
Belgian Species List ID
58785
Bibliothèque nationale de France ID
11937784z
Biota of New Zealand ID
c612223c-1436-4aad-8c3f-0147f3bc5987
BugGuide taxon ID
60
Canadian Encyclopedia article ID
beetle
Catalogue of Life ID
C2L
Dewey Decimal Classification
595.76
Dyntaxa ID
3000181
EPPO Code
1COLEO
Elhuyar ZTH ID
026732
Encyclopedia Tatarica (ru) Online ID
razdely/priroda/zhivotnyj-mir/zhuki
Encyclopedia Tatarica (tt) Online ID
razdely/priroda/zhivotnyj-mir/kogyzlar
Encyclopedia of Life ID
345
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
animal/beetle
Encyclopædia Universalis ID
coleopteres
Endemia.nc animal taxon ID
1343
Fandom article ID
ru.naturalpedia:Жуки, animals:Coleoptera
Fauna Europaea ID
10993
Fauna Europaea New ID
3cf53a59-439c-4e58-90e0-88fd23e92e49
Fossilworks taxon ID
69148
Freebase ID
/m/020jm
GBIF taxon ID
1470
Google News topics ID
CAAqJQgKIh9DQkFTRVFvSUwyMHZNREl3YW0wU0JXVnVMVWRDS0FBUAE
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID
coleopters
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme)
0091720
Great Aragonese Encyclopedia ID
13577, 3944
Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID
biller
Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID (2017)
1983800
Great Russian Encyclopedia portal ID
zhuki-bb0818
Harper's tag
beetles
ICD-11 ID (Foundation)
1226941585
ICD-11 ID (MMS)
XN857
IMDb keyword
beetle
INaturalist taxon ID
47208
IRMNG ID
10279
ITIS TSN
109216
Insects (Insecta) of the World ID
814031
Interlingual Index ID
i46841
JSTOR topic ID (archived)
coleoptera
KBpedia ID
Beetle
Krugosvet article (archived)
nauka_i_tehnika/biologiya/ZHESTKOKRILIE.html
Lex ID
biller
Library of Congress Children's Subject Headings ID
sj2021052352
Lille norske leksikon ID
biller
MeSH descriptor ID
D001517
MeSH tree code
B01.050.500.131.617.720.500.500.375
Museum-digital tag ID
586, 587
NBIC scientific name ID
92
NBN System Key
NHMSYS0001717710
NCBI taxonomy ID
7041
NDL Authority ID
00566843
NL CR AUT ID
ph114202
National Historical Museums of Sweden ID
taxon/6F171EF5-79CD-4D22-9793-9C507F5ED0CC, term/438698F7-845F-45D5-BDD9-9352A77957F9
National Library of Israel J9U ID
987007283145705171
National Library of Spain SpMaBN ID (BNE v1.0)
XX526431
Nederlands Soortenregister ID
151647
New Zealand Organisms Register ID
ccd627b3-0250-4bcc-b61d-ed319c395a16
OmegaWiki Defined Meaning
326
Open Tree of Life ID
865243
PACTOLS thesaurus ID
pcrtV94PVEDm28
Paleobiology Database taxon ID
69148
Plant Parasites of Europe ID
parasites/animalia/arthropoda/insecta/coleoptera
Plazi ID
F97A87E2-7400-E660-6638-FEB4FC50FECB, ED528F06-FF84-FFFB-3DF3-620BFE6CFB05, 3D78138A-638A-AA95-3D06-6BA2245FB0DC, B83187A9-E753-FF96-FF6E-AFF2FBA5BA5E, E2456EB0-2ECF-CE37-6E73-E95B86821645, 4E7E87DB-FFEE-561F-FF33-FE4FFDCEBB39, 03AA8B64-FFE0-FFCE-FF1E-DD7FFDB8FCA2, 0394A359-2F61-8E18-02BA-FBEBFD09FA06, B320504D-9E68-756D-B660-03A8D88E1B44, 03F287C2-FFEB-FF81-AB8C-FF55FDC91B30, 03E48791-FFCB-271D-F703-3329FF6DFB5F, 03D887FB-FC53-FFF5-FF4F-77A672DFFF35, 03DD4A05-5D50-FFDF-FF2E-E064FDCA6FC2, BE605CA6-B4D7-3A90-3813-CECDC8A2AB88, 03D387E9-FFA1-7778-FF6F-ED25FDE6FC63, 03CC87E4-FFCB-4314-FF02-C0AD89E3F9DE
SVKKL authority ID
h0002798-brouci
Salzburgwiki ID
82082
Subreddit
Beetles
Topic's main category
Category:Coleoptera
U.S. National Archives Identifier
10637432
UK Parliament thesaurus ID
439953
UMLS CUI
C0009276
UNBIS Thesaurus ID
1000558
UNSPSC code
10101902
VerbaAlpina ID
C8376
Vikidia article ID
fr:Coléoptère
WikiKids ID
Kevers
WoRMS-ID for taxa
118085
WordNet 3.1 Synset ID
02166634-n
YSO ID
6734
Yale LUX ID
concept/b3450f8c-01f0-4e3b-9e9f-544021991787

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🔗 Connections
← Main food source 12
mallard, Common Quail, Common Starling, European Bee-eater, Great Spotted Woodpecker, rainbow trout, Maleo, common chameleon +4 more
← Parent taxon 7
Polyphaga, Adephaga, Archostemata, Myxophaga, Protocoleoptera, Tshekardocoleidae, Cardiosyne
← Category combines topics 4
Category:Beetles by country, Category:Beetles by year of formal description, Category:Beetles by century of formal description, Category:Beetles of Papua New Guinea
Parent taxon 3
Endopterygota, Holometabola, Coleopterida
← Main subject 3
The Coleopterist, Insect Color Database ICDB, UK Beetles
Described by source 2
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
← Is pollinated by 2
Nymphaea odorata, Ruellia humilis
Has these parts 1
water beetle
Instance of 1
taxon
On focus list of Wikimedia project 1
Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
Studied by 1
coleopterology
Subclass of 1
insect
Subtypes 1
ambrosia beetle
Taxon rank 1
order
Topic has template 1
Template:Coleoptera
Topic's main category 1
Category:Coleoptera
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Coleoptera
← Class of object(s) of occurrence 1
decline in insect populations
← Found in taxon 1
elytron
← Is the study of 1
coleopterology
← Made from material 1
cantharophily
← Template has topic 1
Template:Coleoptera
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Summary

beetle is a taxon[1]. beetle is a type of insect[2].

Related Entities

Insect Color Database ICDB UK Beetles

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . Relationships among coleopteran suborders and major endoneopteran lineages: Evidence from hind wing characters. wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . Taxonomic Review of Fossil Coleopterous Families (Insecta, Coleoptera). Suborder Archostemata: Superfamilies Coleopseoidea and Cupedoidea. wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [2] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  16. [17] ↑ . BugGuide. wikidata.org.
  17. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [20] ↑ . Norwegian Biodiversity Information Centre. Retrieved . artsdatabanken.no. Provenance: wikidata.org.
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  25. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  26. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 5d ago · MatSuBot bot · 2026-11-02 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Sitelink count → 133
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    Insects (Insecta) of the World ID → 814031
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  5. 18w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-06-29 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → beetles
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: beetles, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289911568|beetles (#289911568)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] #mix'n'm"
  6. 21w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    SVKKL authority ID → h0002798-brouci
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