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 an Atlas of Yorkshire Coleoptera, which is available to download in sections 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
- An Atlas of Yorkshire Coleoptera - Part 12 - Chrysomeloidea
- An Atlas of Yorkshire Coleoptera - Part 13 – Curculionoidea [Families 93-102]An Atlas of Yorkshire Coleoptera - Part 13 – Curculionoidea [Families 93-102]
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.
