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Welcome to Coleop-Terra!

This page renders homage to diversity of nature, incarnated by beetles. Longhorn-, jewel-, and scarab beetles are large, striking, comparable easy to study and to photograph. Because scarab and longhorn beetles share exaggerated traits such as prolonged horns or antennae, they are well-studied models for mating selection and evolution. Already Charles Darwin quoted "Whenever I hear of the capture of rare beetles, I feel like an old war-horse at the sound of a trumpet". Because of their comparable well known taxonomy and certain habitat specificty, some beetle groups have become significant surrogates for understanding complex habitats and indicator taxa for determining biodiversity patterns and habitat inegrity.

Coleop-Terra shows conspicious beetles that are rarely found in the world wide web. Furthermore, since I live in Bolivia, I will introduce entomologically interesting places such as the Tucuman Bolivian forest, the Bolivian Yungas and Chiquitano forest, which is exclusively found in Bolivia and Brazil.

I would like to thank my colleagues for providing pictures of species rarely seen in the world wide web, which can now be found in my webpage. Please see the list of contributors.  

Enjoy my page,

Robert Perger