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The links on this page will take you to websites created by others that contain information about hister beetles. As these websites are maintained by others, I cannot guarantee the information contained on them is either accurate or up-to-date.

This list is not intended to be exhaustive. If you come across a dead link or two, please bear with me. I will try to keep this page updated as old sites die or change, and new interesting sites are found.

[ Histerid Workers | Histerids of ... | Collection Holdings | Histerid Images | Histerid Articles | Histerid Miscellany ]

Pages Devoted to Histeridae

  • EMMAMUSHI - Database of the Superfamily Histeroidea: Family Histeridae, Family Syntelidae & Family Sphaeritidae - Insecta: Coleoptera
  • Histeridae (on 'Tree of Life')
  • Histeridae of the World
  • Systematics of the Mesynodites sensu lato genus complex (Coleoptera: Histeridae)
  • Ecology and habitats of Histeridae (Recent symposium by Slawomir Mazur)
  • Australian Biological Resources Study - Histeridae

Histerid Workers on the Web

  • Yves Bousquet
  • Michael S. Caterino
  • Yves Gomy
  • Vladislav Olegovitch Kozminykh
  • Oleg Leonidovich Kryzhanovsky
  • Slawomir Mazur
  • Alfred F. Newton
  • Masaaki Nishikawa
  • Masahiro Ohara
  • Rüdiger Peschel
  • Edward S. Ross
  • Paul Skelley
  • Alexey Tishechkin
  • Hong-zhang Zhou

  • Ohara's 'Histeridologists of the world'

  • Picture of Rupert Wenzel
    From: 'University of Kansas Natural History Museum Photoalbum of Entomologists'

Histerids of ...

    Asia

  • Russia
    From: 'Beetles (Coleoptera) and Coleopterists'

  • Perm area, Russia

    Europe

  • Europe
    From: 'Histeridae of the World'

  • British Isles
    From: 'Checklist of Beetles of the British Isles'
  • Czech and Slovak Republics
    From: 'Checklist of Czech and Slovak beetles'
    *** warning: this list has ~20 empty entries at the start, so don't give up on it
  • Iberian Peninsula and the Balearic Islands     for in-depth treatment get a copy of   'Fauna Iberica - Vol. 17'
    From: 'Fauna Iberica'
  • Italy
    From: 'Checklist of the Species of the Italian Fauna'
  • Latvia
    From: 'Check-list of Latvian Beetles (Insecta: Coleoptera)'
  • United Kingdom
    From: 'Checklist of UK Recorded Species'

  • Palava Biosphere Reserve of UNESCO
    From: 'Invertebrates of the Palava Biosphere Reserve of the UNESCO'
  • Alpes de Haute Provence, France
    From: 'ICAHP : Association pour l'inventaire des Coléoptères des Alpes de Haute-Provence'
  • Low Elbe Zone and Schleswig-Holsteins, Germany
    From: 'Käfer des Niederelbegebietes und Schleswig-Holsteins'
  • Somogy County, Hungary

    Central America

  • Costa Rica
    From: 'Las familias de Coleoptera de Costa Rica'
  • Nicaragua
    From: 'Insectarium Virtual: Catalogo de Insectos y Artropodos Terrestres de Nicaragua'

    North America

  • Arizona, USA
    From: 'Northern Arizona University - Colorado Plateau Museum of Arthropod Biodiversity'
  • California, USA
    From: 'Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History - California Beetles - Species lists'
  • Florida, USA
    From: 'A Distributional Checklist of the Beetles (Coleoptera) of Florida'
  • Louisiana, USA
    From: 'Louisiana State Arthropod Museum'
  • Oklahoma, USA
    From: 'Checklist of the Coleoptera of Oklahoma'
  • Rhode Island, USA
    From: 'Coleoptera of Rhode Island'
  • Wisconsin, USA

  • Cedar Creek Natural History Area, Minnesota, USA
    From: 'The Insects of Cedar Creek'

    Australia

  • Australia
    From: 'Australian Biological Resources Study'

    Various Islands and Archipelagos

  • Hawaii, USA
    From: 'Hawaiian Arthropod Checklist Database'
  • Kuril Islands
    From: 'International Kuril Island Project'
  • Virgin Islands
    From: 'The Beetles of the Virgin Islands'

Collection Holdings

    Types

  • Bishop Museum
  • California Academy of Sciences
  • Cornell University Insect Collection
  • Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest
  • Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University
  • National Museum of Namibia
  • Natural History Museum, London
  • Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
  • Zoological Museum University of Copenhagen     you must repeatedly find 'histeridae' once you get to site

    General Holdings

  • Albertson College Collection
  • Clemson University Arthropod Museum
  • Entomological Museum of Lund University
  • Essig Museum of Entomology (University of California, Berkeley)
  • Jeffrey P. Gruber Collection     coming soon
  • Musée Zoologique de Strasbourg, France NEW
  • The Natural History Museum, London
  • Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
  • New Zealand Arthropod Collection
  • North Carolina State University Insect Collection
  • Polish Academy of Sciences - Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals
  • Siberian Zoological Museum
  • Swedish Museum of Natural History     you must access each letter (a-z) separately and find 'histeridae' repeatedly once you get to page for each letter
  • University of Colorado
  • University of Connecticut
  • University of Maine     you must find 'histeridae' once you get to site
  • University of New Hampshire
  • University of Queensland Insect Collection
  • University of Wisconsin-Madison     coming soon
  • Western Australia Department of Agriculture

Histerid Images

  • 'The Insects of Cedar Creek'    (several Histeridae images)
  • Louisiana State Arthropod Museum    (many Histeridae images)
  • www.insect.cz
  • Fotogalerie Coleoptera    (several Histeridae images)
  • A Gallery of California Beetles    (several Histeridae images)
  • Michael S. Caterino's Research Page    (several images of Chlamydopsinae)
  • Image supplement to Chlamydopsinae paper by Caterino, 2003
  • Image supplement to Chlamydopsinae paper by Degallier and Caterino, 2005
  • Spilodiscus sellatus
    From: 'CalPhotos (Berkeley Digital Library Project)'
  • Onthophilus kirni Ross and Spilodiscus floridanus Ross
     From: 'The Gopher Project - Pocket Gophers, Inquiline Insects, and Geographic Information Systems'
  • Hister unicolor and Hypocaccus rugiceps
     From: 'The Coleopterist'
  • Margarinotus bipustulatus
    From: 'Insekten - Box : Steckbriefe'
  • Ken Gray Image Collections    (several Histeridae images)
  • InsectImages    (several Histeridae images)
  • Platysoma parallelum Say
    From: 'Insect Images: The Source for Insect Images '
  • Zoological Excursions around Lake Baikal - Fauna in Pictures
  • Nafoku ^..^ Natur- und Foto-Kunst
  • Hister Beetle Images
  • Unidentified histerid
    From: 'myrmecos.net: insect photography by Alex Wild'
  • Exaesiopus atrovirens
    From: 'Beetles (Coleoptera) and Coleopterists'

Histerid Articles

  • New data on the fauna and ecology of the superfamily Histeroidea (Coleoptera) in Latvia
  • Vereinfachtes Diagramm zur Bestimmung der Gattungen und einiger Arten der Familie Histeridae in Mitteleuropa (Coleoptera)
    (in German) Translated: Simplified diagram for the determination of the kinds and some types of the family Histeridae in Central Europe (Coleoptera)
  • Ampliación de la distribución conocida de Hololepta (s.str.) plana (Sulzer, 1776) en la península Ibérica (Coleoptera: Histeridae)
  • Fimicolous Histeridae Coleoptera in Campo Grande, MS, Brazil
  • I Coleotteri Sphaeritidae e Histeridae Del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Venezia
  • Description of a New Spilodiscus Lewis, and a Reanalysis of Spilodiscus Phylogeny (Coleoptera: Histeridae) / PDF version
  • On the Genus Onthophilus Leach (Coleoptera: Histeridae) from China / PDF version
  • A new record of Hypocaccus lewisii (Coleoptera, Histeroidea) from Urup Island of the Kuril Archipelago

  • Links to online articles by Michael S. Caterino can be found here
  • Links to online articles by Nicolas Dégallier can be found here
  • Links to online articles by Oleg Kryzhanovsky can be found here
  • Links to online articles by Rüdiger Peschel can be found here
  • Links to online articles by various authors can be found here

Histerid Miscellany

  • The Cave-Inhabiting Beetles of Cuba (Insecta: Coleoptera): Diversity, Distribution and Ecology
  • New Faunal and Fungal Records from Caves in Georgia, USA
  • ROBO - Releases of Beneficial Organisms in the United States and Territories
  • The Gopher Project - Pocket Gophers, Inquiline Insects, and Geographic Information Systems
  • Nomina Insecta Nearctica
  • Histerid Beetles Associated with Livestock Dung in Canada
  • Insect Surveys in the Southeast: Investigating a Relictual Entomofauna
  • Death - the last taboo: Decomposition: Corpse Fauna
  • Stranded Zostera marina L. vs wrack fauna community interactions on a Baltic sandy beach (Hel, Poland): a short-term pilot study. Part II. Driftline effects of succession changes and colonisation of beach fauna*
  • An Overview of the Coleopteran Family Histeridae and its Significance to Forensic Entomology
  • Beetles of Block Island: Rare species that once occurred on the mainland
  • Spring Succession of Necrophilous Insects on Wildlife Carcasses in Louisiana / PDF version
  • Rare and Endemic Rhode Island Beetles
  • The work with old trees and saproxylic beetles in Östergötland Sweden
  • Histeridae genus-group and family-group names
    From: 'Catalog of higher taxa of Staphyliniformia and genera and subgenera of Staphylinoidea database'
  • Lucid Key to Genera of Chlamydopsinae (Beta Version)

Acknowledgments
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