List of beetles of Great Britain

This is a list of beetle species in Britain.

Suborder Adephaga

Family Carabidae
See List of ground beetle (Carabidae) species recorded in Britain
Families Gyrinidae, Haliplidae, Noteridae, Paelobiidae and Dytiscidae
See List of water beetle species recorded in Britain

Suborder Myxophaga

Family Sphaeriusidae

Suborder Polyphaga

Infraorder Bostrichiformia

Superfamily Bostrichoidea

Family Dermestidae
Family Bostrichidae

Family Anobiidae

Superfamily Derodontoidea

Family Derodontidae
  • Larcobius erichsonii


Infraorder Cucujiformia

Superfamily Chrysomeloidea

Family Cerambycidae
See List of longhorn beetle (Cerambycidae) species recorded in Britain
Family Orsodacnidae
  • Orsodacne cerasi
  • Orsodacne humeralis
Family Megalopodidae
  • Zeugophora flavicollis
  • Zeugophora subspinosa
  • Zeugophora turneri
Family Chrysomelidae
See List of leaf beetle (Chrysomelidae) species recorded in Britain

Superfamily Cleroidea

Family Phloiophilidae
  • Phloiophilus edwardsii
Family Trogossitidae
  • Lophocateres pusillus
  • Nemozoma elongatum
  • Ostoma ferrugineum
  • Tenebroides mauritanicus cadelle beetle
  • Thymalus limbatus
Family Cleridae
Family Melyridae
  • Anthocomus fasciatus
  • Anthocomus rufus
  • Aplocnemus impressus
  • Aplocnemus nigricornis
  • Axinotarsus marginalis
  • Axinotarsus pulicarius
  • Axinotarsus ruficollis
  • Cerapheles terminatus
  • Clanoptilus barnevillei
  • Clanoptilus marginellus
  • Clanoptilus strangulatus
  • Cordylepherus viridis
  • Dasytes aeratus
  • Dasytes cyaneus
  • Dasytes niger
  • Dasytes plumbeus
  • Dasytes virens
  • Dolichosoma lineare
  • Ebaeus pedicularius
  • Hypebaeus flavipes
  • Malachius aeneus
  • Malachius bipustulatus malachite beetle
  • Psilothrix viridicoeruleus
  • Sphinginus lobatus
  • Troglops cephalotes

Superfamily Cucujoidea

Family Sphindidae
  • Aspidiphorus orbiculatus
  • Sphindus dubius
Family Kateretidae
  • Brachypterolus antirrhini
  • Brachypterolus linariae
  • Brachypterolus pulicarius
  • Brachypterolus vestitus
  • Brachypterus glaber
  • Brachypterus urticae
  • Kateretes pedicularius
  • Kateretes pusillus
  • Kateretes rufilabris
Family Nitidulidae (pollen beetles)
See List of pollen beetles (Nitidulidae) recorded in Britain
Family Monotomidae
  • Cyanostolus aeneus
  • Monotoma angusticollis
  • Monotoma bicolor
  • Monotoma brevicollis
  • Monotoma conicicollis
  • Monotoma longicollis
  • Monotoma picipes
  • Monotoma quadricollis
  • Monotoma quadrifoveolata
  • Monotoma spinicollis
  • Monotoma testacea
  • Rhizophagus bipustulatus
  • Rhizophagus cribratus
  • Rhizophagus depressus
  • Rhizophagus dispar
  • Rhizophagus ferrugineus
  • Rhizophagus grandis
  • Rhizophagus nitidulus
  • Rhizophagus oblongicollis
  • Rhizophagus parallelocollis
  • Rhizophagus parvulus
  • Rhizophagus perforatus
  • Rhizophagus picipes
Family Silvanidae
  • Ahasverus advena foreign grain beetle
  • Cathartus quadricollis square-necked grain beetle
  • Cryptamorpha desjardinsii Desjardins' beetle
  • Dendophagus crenatus
  • Nausibius clavicornis
  • Oryzaephilus mercator merchant grain beetle
  • Oryzaephilus surinamensis saw-toothed grain beetle
  • Psammoecus bipunctatus
  • Silvanus bidentatus
  • Silvanoprus fagi
  • Silvanus unidentatus
  • Uleiota planata
Family Cucujidae
  • Pediacus depressus
  • Pediacus dermestoides
Family Laemophloeidae
  • Cryptolestes capensis
  • Cryptolestes duplicatus
  • Cryptolestes ferrugineus
  • Cryptolestes pusilloides
  • Cryptolestes pusillus
  • Cryptolestes spartii
  • Cryptolestes turcicus
  • Laemophloeus monilis
  • Leptophoeus clematidis
  • Leptophoeus janeti
  • Notolaemus unifasciatus
Family Phalacridae
  • Olibrus aeneus
  • Olibrus affinis
  • Olibrus corticalis
  • Olibrus flavicornis
  • Olibrus liquidus
  • Olibrus millefolii
  • Olibrus pygmaeus
  • Phalacrus brunnipes
  • Phalacrus caricis
  • Phalacrus corruscus
  • Phalacrus fimetarius
  • Phalacrus substriatus
  • Stilbus atomarius
  • Stilbus oblongus
  • Stilbus testaceus
Family Cryptophagidae
  • Antherophagus canescens
  • Antherophagus nigricornis
  • Antherophagus pallens
  • Atomaria apicalis
  • Atomaria atra
  • Atomaria atricapilla
  • Atomaria badia
  • Atomaria barani
  • Atomaria basalis
  • Atomaria bella
  • Atomaria clavigera
  • Atomaria diluta
  • Atomaria fimetarii
  • Atomaria fuscata
  • Atomaria fuscipes
  • Atomaria gutta
  • Atomaria hislopi
  • Atomaria impressa
  • Atomaria lewisi
  • Atomaria linearis pygmy mangel beetle
  • Atomaria lohsei
  • Atomaria mesomela
  • Atomaria morio
  • Atomaria munda
  • Atomaria nigripennis
  • Atomaria nigrirostris
  • Atomaria nigriventris
  • Atomaria nitidula
  • Atomaria ornata
  • Atomaria peltata
  • Atomaria procerula
  • Atomaria pseudatra
  • Atomaria pulchra
  • Atomaria puncticollis
  • Atomaria punctithorax
  • Atomaria pusilla

  • Atomaria rhenana
  • Atomaria rubella
  • Atomaria rubida
  • Atomaria rubricollis
  • Atomaria scutellaris
  • Atomaria strandi
  • Atomaria testacea
  • Atomaria turgida
  • Atomaria umbrina
  • Atomaria wollastoni
  • Atomaria zetterstedti
  • Caenoscelis ferruginea
  • Caenoscelis sibirica
  • Caenoscelis subdeplanata
  • Cryptophagus acuminatus
  • Cryptophagus acutangulus
  • Cryptophagus angustus
  • Cryptophagus badius
  • Cryptophagus cellaris
  • Cryptophagus confusus
  • Cryptophagus corticinus
  • Cryptophagus dentatus
  • Cryptophagus distinguendus
  • Cryptophagus falcozi
  • Cryptophagus fallax
  • Cryptophagus fuscicornis
  • Cryptophagus hexagonalis
  • Cryptophagus immixtus
  • Cryptophagus intermedius
  • Cryptophagus labilis
  • Cryptophagus lapponicus
  • Cryptophagus laticollis
  • Cryptophagus lycoperdi
  • Cryptophagus micaceus
  • Cryptophagus obsoletus
  • Cryptophagus pallidus
  • Cryptophagus pilosus
  • Cryptophagus populi
  • Cryptophagus pseudodentatus
  • Cryptophagus pubescens
  • Cryptophagus rotundatus
  • Cryptophagus ruficornis
  • Cryptophagus saginatus
  • Cryptophagus scanicus
  • Cryptophagus schmidtii
  • Cryptophagus scutellatus
  • Cryptophagus setulosus
  • Cryptophagus simplex
  • Cryptophagus subdepressus
  • Cryptophagus subfumatus
  • Cryptophagus subvittatus
  • Ephistemus globulus
  • Henoticus californicus
  • Henoticus serratus
  • Hypocoprus latridioides
  • Micrambe abietis
  • Micrambe aubrooki
  • Micrambe bimaculata
  • Micrambe lindbergorum
  • Micrambe villosa
  • Micrambe vini
  • Ootypus globosus
  • Paramecosoma melanocephalum
  • Telmatophilus brevicollis
  • Telmatophilus caricis
  • Telmatophilus schoenherrii
  • Telmatophilus sparganii
  • Telmatophilus typhae
Family Erotylidae
  • Dacne bipustulata
  • Dacne rufifrons
  • Triplax aenea
  • Triplax lacordairii
  • Triplax russica
  • Triplax scutellaris
  • Tritoma bipustulata
Family Byturidae
Family Biphyllidae
  • Biphyllus lunatus
  • Diplocoelus fagi
Family Bothrideridae
  • Anommatus diecki
  • Anommatus duodecimstriatus
  • Oxylaemus cylindricus
  • Oxylaemus variolosus
  • Teredus cylindricus
Family Cerylonidae
  • Cerylon fagi
  • Cerylon ferrugineum
  • Cerylon histeroides
  • Murmidius ovalis
  • Murmidius segregatus
Family Alexiidae
  • Sphaerosoma pilosum
Family Endomychidae
  • Endomychus coccineus
  • Holoparamecus caularum
  • Holoparamecus depressus
  • Holoparamecus singularis
  • Lycoperdina bovistae
  • Lycoperdina succincta
  • Mycetaea subterranea
  • Symbiotes latus
Family Coccinellidae (ladybirds)
See List of ladybirds and related beetle species recorded in Britain
Family Corylophidae
  • Corylophus cassidoides
  • Corylophus sublaevipennis
  • Orthoperus aequalis
  • Orthoperus atomarius
  • Orthoperus atomus
  • Orthoperus brunnipes
  • Orthoperus corticalis
  • Orthoperus nigrescens
  • Rypobius praetermissus
  • Sericoderus lateralis
Family Latridiidae
  • Adistemia watsoni
  • Cartodere bifasciata
  • Cartodere constricta
  • Cartodere nodifer
  • Cartodere norvegica
  • Corticaria abietorum
  • Corticaria alleni
  • Corticaria crenulata
  • Corticaria dubia
  • Corticaria elongata
  • Corticaria fagi
  • Corticaria ferruginea
  • Corticaria fulva
  • Corticaria impressa
  • Corticaria inconspicua
  • Corticaria longicollis
  • Corticaria polypori
  • Corticaria punctulata
  • Corticaria rubripes
  • Corticaria serrata
  • Corticaria umbilicata
  • Corticarina fulvipes
  • Corticarina fuscula
  • Corticarina lambiana
  • Corticarina latipennis
  • Corticarina similata
  • Corticarina truncatella
  • Cortinicara gibbosa
  • Dienerella argus
  • Dienerella clathrata
  • Dienerella elegans
  • Dienerella elongata
  • Dienerella filiformis
  • Dienerella filum
  • Dienerella ruficollis
  • Dienerella schueppeli
  • Enicmus brevicornis
  • Enicmus fungicola
  • Enicmus histrio
  • Enicmus rugosus
  • Enicmus testaceus
  • Enicmus transversus
  • Latridius anthracinus
  • Latridius consimilis
  • Latridius minutus
  • Latridius pseudominutus
  • Lithostygnus serripennis
  • Melanophthalma curticollis
  • Melanophthalma distinguenda
  • Melanophthalma suturalis
  • Stephostethus alternans
  • Stephostethus angusticollis
  • Stephostethus lardarius
  • Thes bergrothi

Superfamily Curculionoidea

See List of weevil (Curculionoidea) species recorded in Britain

Superfamily Lymexyloidea

Family Lymexylidae
  • Hylecoetus dermestoides
  • Lymexylon navale

Superfamily Tenebrionoidea

See List of beetle species recorded in Britain - superfamily Tenebrionoidea


Infraorder Elateriformia

Superfamily Buprestoidea

Family Buprestidae

Superfamily Byrrhoidea

Family Byrrhidae
  • Byrrhus arietinus
  • Byrrhus fasciatus
  • Byrrhus pilula
  • Byrrhus pustulatus
  • Chaetophora spinosa
  • Curimopsis maritima
  • Curimopsis nigrita mire pill beetle
  • Curimopsis setigera
  • Cytilus sericeus
  • Morychus aeneus
  • Porcinolus murinus
  • Simplocaria maculosa
  • Simplocaria semistriata
Families Elmidae, Dryopidae and Limnichidae
See List of water beetle species recorded in Britain
Family Heteroceridae
  • Augyles hispidulus
  • Augyles maritimus
  • Heterocerus femoralis
  • Heterocerus fenestratus
  • Heterocerus flexuosus
  • Heterocerus fossor
  • Heterocerus fusculus
  • Heterocerus marginatus
  • Heterocerus obsoletus
Family Psephenidae
  • Eubria palustris

Superfamily Dascilloidea

Family Dascillidae
  • Dascillus cervinus

Superfamily Elateroidea

Family Eucnemidae
  • Epiphanis cornutus
  • Eucnemis capucina
  • Hylis cariniceps
  • Hylis olexai
  • Melasis buprestoides
  • Microrhagus pygmaeus

Family Throscidae
  • Aulonothrosucus brevicollis
  • Trixagus carinifrons
  • Trixagus dermestoides
  • Trixagus gracilis
  • Trixagus obtusus
Family Elateridae (click beetles)
See List of click beetle (Elateridae) species recorded in Britain
Family Drilidae
Family Lycidae
Family Lampyridae
Family Cantharidae
See List of soldier beetle (Cantharidae) species recorded in Britain

Superfamily Scirtoidea

Family Eucinetidae
  • Eucinetus meridionalis
Family Clambidae
  • Calyptomerus dubius
  • Clambus armadillo
  • Clambus evae
  • Clambus gibbulus
  • Clambus nigrellus
  • Clambus nigriclavis
  • Clambus pallidulus
  • Clambus pubescens
  • Clambus punctulus
  • Clambus simsoni
Family Scirtidae
  • Cyphon coarctatus
  • Cyphon hilaris
  • Cyphon kongsbergensis
  • Cyphon laevipennis
  • Cyphon ochraceus
  • Cyphon padi
  • Cyphon palustris
  • Cyphon pubescens
  • Cyphon punctipennis
  • Cyphon variabilis
  • Elodes elongata
  • Elodes minuta
  • Elodes pseudominuta
  • Elodes tricuspis
  • Hydrocyphon deflexicollis
  • Microcara testacea
  • Odeles marginata
  • Prionocyphon serricornis
  • Scirtes hemisphaericus
  • Scirtes orbicularis


Infraorder Scarabaeiformia

Superfamily Scarabaeoidea

See List of dung beetle and chafer (Scarabaeoidea) species recorded in Britain

Infraorder Staphyliniformia

Superfamily Histeroidea

Family Sphaeritidae
  • Sphaerites glabratus
Family Histeridae
  • Abraeus granulum
  • Abraeus perpusillus
  • Acritus homoeopathicus
  • Acritus nigricornis
  • Aeletes atomarius
  • Atholus bimaculatus
  • Atholus duodecimstriatus
  • Carcinops pumilio
  • Dendrophilus punctatus
  • Dendrophilus pygmaeus
  • Dendrophilus xavieri
  • Epierus comptus
  • Gnathoncus buyssoni
  • Gnathoncus communis
  • Gnathoncus nannetensis
  • Gnathoncus rotundatus
  • Halacritus punctum
  • Hetaerius ferrugineus
  • Hister bissexstriatus
  • Hister illigeri
  • Hister quadrimaculatus
  • Hister quadrinotatus
  • Hister unicolor
  • Hypocaccus dimidiatus
  • Hypocaccus metallicus
  • Hypocaccus rugiceps
  • Hypocaccus rugifrons
  • Kissister minimus
  • Margarinotus brunneus
  • Margarinotus marginatus
  • Margarinotus merdarius
  • Margarinotus neglectus
  • Margarinotus obscurus
  • Margarinotus purpurascens
  • Margarinotus striola
  • Margarinotus ventralis
  • Myrmetes paykulli
  • Onthophilus punctatus
  • Onthophilus striatus
  • Paromalus flavicornis
  • Paromalus parallelepipedus
  • Plegaderus dissectus
  • Plegaderus vulneratus
  • Saprinus aeneus
  • Saprinus immundus
  • Saprinus planiusculus
  • Saprinus semistriatus
  • Saprinus subnitescens
  • Saprinus virescens
  • Teretrius fabricii

Superfamily Hydrophiloidea

See List of water beetle species recorded in Britain

Superfamily Staphylinoidea

Family Hydraenidae
See List of water beetle species recorded in Britain
Family Ptiliidae
  • Acrotrichis arnoldi
  • Acrotrichis atomaria
  • Acrotrichis brevipennis
  • Acrotrichis cephalotes
  • Acrotrichis cognata
  • Acrotrichis danica
  • Acrotrichis dispar
  • Acrotrichis fascicularis
  • Acrotrichis grandicollis
  • Acrotrichis insularis
  • Acrotrichis intermedia
  • Acrotrichis josephi
  • Acrotrichis lucidula
  • Acrotrichis montandonii
  • Acrotrichis norvegica
  • Acrotrichis parva
  • Acrotrichis pumila
  • Acrotrichis rosskotheni
  • Acrotrichis rugulosa
  • Acrotrichis sanctaehelenae
  • Acrotrichis sericans
  • Acrotrichis silvatica
  • Acrotrichis sitkaensis
  • Acrotrichis strandi
  • Acrotrichis thoracica
  • Actidium aterrimum
  • Actidium coarctatum
  • Actinopteryx fucicola
  • Baeocrara variolosa
  • Euryptilium gillmeisteri
  • Euryptilium saxonicum
  • Micridium halidaii
  • Microptilium palustre
  • Microptilium pulchellum
  • Millidium minutissimum
  • Nephanes titan
  • Nossidium pilosellum
  • Oligella foveolata
  • Oligella insignis
  • Oligella intermedia
  • Ptenidium brenskei
  • Ptenidium formicetorum
  • Ptenidium fuscicorne
  • Ptenidium gressneri
  • Ptenidium intermedium
  • Ptenidium laevigatum
  • Ptenidium longicorne
  • Ptenidium nitidum
  • Ptenidium punctatum
  • Ptenidium pusillum
  • Ptenidium turgidum
  • Pteryx suturalis
  • Ptiliola brevicollis
  • Ptiliola kunzei
  • Ptiliolum caledonicum
  • Ptiliolum fuscum
  • Ptiliolum marginatum
  • Ptiliolum sahlbergi
  • Ptiliolum schwarzi
  • Ptiliolum spencei
  • Ptilium affine
  • Ptilium caesum
  • Ptilium exaratum
  • Ptilium horioni
  • Ptilium myrmecophilum
  • Ptinella aptera
  • Ptinella britannica
  • Ptinella cavelli
  • Ptinella denticollis
  • Ptinella errabunda
  • Ptinella limbata
  • Ptinella simsoni
  • Ptinella taylorae
  • Smicrus filicornis
Family Leiodidae
  • Agaricophagus cephalotes
  • Agathidium arcticum
  • Agathidium atrum
  • Agathidium confusum
  • Agathidium convexum
  • Agathidium laevigatum
  • Agathidium marginatum
  • Agathidium nigrinum

  • Agathidium nigripenne
  • Agathidium pisanum
  • Agathidium rotundatum
  • Agathidium seminulum
  • Agathidium varians
  • Aglyptinus agathidioides
  • Amphicyllis globus
  • Anisotoma castanea
  • Anisotoma glabra
  • Anisotoma humeralis
  • Anisotoma orbicularis
  • Catopidius depressus
  • Catops chrysomeloides
  • Catops coracinus
  • Catops fuliginosus
  • Catops fuscus
  • Catops grandicollis
  • Catops kirbii
  • Catops longulus
  • Catops morio
  • Catops nigricans
  • Catops nigriclavis
  • Catops nigrita
  • Catops tristis
  • Choleva agilis
  • Choleva angustata
  • Choleva cisteloides
  • Choleva elongata
  • Choleva fagniezi
  • Choleva glauca
  • Choleva jeanneli
  • Choleva lederiana
  • Choleva oblonga
  • Choleva spadicea
  • Colenis immunda
  • Colon angulare
  • Colon appendiculatum
  • Colon brunneum
  • Colon dentipes
  • Colon latum
  • Colon rufescens
  • Colon serripes
  • Colon viennense
  • Colon zebei
  • Hydnobius latifrons
  • Hydnobius punctatus
  • Hydnobius spinipes
  • Leiodes badia
  • Leiodes calcarata
  • Leiodes ciliaris
  • Leiodes cinnamomea
  • Leiodes ferruginea
  • Leiodes flavescens
  • Leiodes furva
  • Leiodes gallica
  • Leiodes gyllenhalii
  • Leiodes litura
  • Leiodes longipes
  • Leiodes lucens
  • Leiodes lunicollis
  • Leiodes macropus
  • Leiodes nigrita
  • Leiodes obesa
  • Leiodes oblonga
  • Leiodes picea
  • Leiodes rufipennis
  • Leiodes rugosa
  • Leiodes silesiaca
  • Leiodes strigipennis
  • Leiodes triepkii
  • Leptinus testaceus
  • Liocyrtusa minuta
  • Liocyrtusa vittata
  • Nargus anisotomoides
  • Nargus velox
  • Nargus wilkinii
  • Nemadus colonoides
  • Parabathyscia wollastoni
  • Ptomaphagus medius
  • Ptomaphagus subvillosus
  • Ptomaphagus varicornis
  • Sciodrepoides fumatus
  • Sciodrepoides watsoni
  • Sogda suturalis
  • Triarthron maerkelii
Family Scydmaenidae
  • Cephennium gallicum
  • Euconnus denticornis
  • Euconnus duboisi
  • Euconnus fimetarius
  • Euconnus hirticollis
  • Euconnus maeklinii
  • Euconnus pragensis
  • Euconnus rutilipennis
  • Eutheia formicetorum
  • Eutheia linearis
  • Eutheia plicata
  • Eutheia schaumii
  • Eutheia scydmaenoides
  • Euthiconus conicicollis
  • Microscydmus minimus
  • Microscydmus nanus
  • Neuraphes angulatus
  • Neuraphes carinatus
  • Neuraphes elongatulus
  • Neuraphes plicicollis
  • Neuraphes praeteritus
  • Neuraphes talparum
  • Scydmaenus rufus
  • Scydmaenus tarsatus
  • Scydmoraphes helvolus
  • Scydmoraphes sparshalli
  • Stenichnus bicolor
  • Stenichnus collaris
  • Stenichnus godarti
  • Stenichnus poweri
  • Stenichnus pusillus
  • Stenichnus scutellaris
Family Silphidae
Family Staphylinidae
See List of rove beetle (Staphylinidae) species recorded in Britain

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