Beetle

Mayflies
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia;
Phylum:	Arthropoda;
Subphylum:	Hexapoda;
Class:	Insecta;
Subclass:	Pterygota;
Infraclass:	Neoptera;
Order:	Coleoptera; Linnaeus 1758
Suborders
	Adephage; Archostemata; Myxophaga; Polyphaga;

Beetles (Order Coleoptera) make up the largest order in the insect kingdom.

Identification

Beetles undergo complete metamorphosis.

There are 28,600 species found in North America, and 290,000 worldwide.

There are four suborders in this order.

Borrer, DJ and RE White. A Field Guide to Insects: America north of Mexico. Houghton Mifflin Company: Boston, 1970. ISBN 0-395-91170-2

Milne, L and M Milne. National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Insects & Spiders. Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.: 1995. ISBN 0-394-50763-0