List of Devon Beetles

Compiled by Martin Luff, (D.A. Recorder for Coleoptera), January 2021.
Web implementation by John Maltby.

This list is based on the index of Devon beetles compiled by the late G.H.Ashe (1879-1961), and left to the D.A. by Ashe. A full history of beetle recording in the county is in the paper on Devon entomology by Beavan et al, 2018, Rep.Trans.D.A.. 150:51-106. Ashe’s index has been supplemented by successive County Recorders, with many additional species being listed in the Annual Reports of the Entomology Section. Further records have been compiled by the present Recorder from data sent by other coleopterists, entomological journals and selected museum collections. The list is a dynamic and incomplete snapshot of current information that will be updated periodically.

Clicking on the family names in the table below leads to species lists for that family. Selected species names link to maps and information for each species. This will gradually be extended to most species. Note that the table below can be sorted by clicking on any of the header entries.

Beetle images on the maps are used by permission from Lech Borowiec L. 2007. Iconographia Coleopterorum Poloniae or from CC licensed internet sources.

As of May 2022 the lists are complete and there are 1888 linked maps and illustrations (of all the Devon families except the Staphylinidae).