Beetles (Coleoptera) are a large and varied group of insects. There are two YNU interest groups involved, one looking after the group as a whole, and a second specialising in a single family of rove beetles, the Aleocharinae.
Bob Marsh has written the following sections of an Atlas of Yorkshire Coleoptera.
Some sections are in the final stages of publication and will be available once they are ready. The documents are available to download by clicking the links below.
Individual files range from 2MB to 10MB in size so may take some time to open/download.
- An Atlas of Yorkshire Coleoptera - Part 1 - Carabidae
- Part 2 and 3 (Aquatic Coleoptera) are available as a separate publication
- An Atlas of Yorkshire Coleoptera - Part 4 - Sphaeritidae to Silphidae
- An Atlas of Yorkshire Coleoptera - Part 5 - Staphylinidae
- An Atlas of Yorkshire Coleoptera - Part 5a - Aleocharinae (co-authored by Bob Marsh and Mike Denton)
- An Atlas of Yorkshire Coleoptera - Part 6 - Geotrupidae to Scarabaeidae
- An Atlas of Yorkshire Coleoptera - Part 7 - Eucinetidae to Byrrhidae
- An Atlas of Yorkshire Coleoptera - Part 8 - Elateroidea
- An Atlas of Yorkshire Coleoptera - Part 9 - Derodontoidea, Bostrichoidea and Lymexyloidea
- An Atlas of Yorkshire Coleoptera - Part 10 - Cleroidea and Cucujoidea
- An Atlas of Yorkshire Coleoptera - Part 11 - Tenebrionoidea
Links and downloads
Watsonian Yorkshire Checklist
Here you can download a checklist of Yorkshire Coleoptera based on records held in the database of the Yorkshire Naturalists' Union by R J Marsh and M L Denton. This was updated in March 2020 by YNU Coleoptera Recorder Mr R J Marsh.
Click here to download a list of beetles recorded at Blackmoorfoot reservoir
Links to information about beetle recording schemes can be found on the Biological Records Centre website.
