Story: Beetles

More links and websites

• 
  The New Zealand Carabidae web site
  

  Information, including an image gallery, of 151
  species of New Zealand ground beetles.

• 
  What is this bug?
  

  Landcare Research’s web page on beetle
  identification.

More suggestions and sources

• Crowe, Andrew. Which New Zealand
  insect? Auckland: Penguin, 2002.
• Klimaszewski, J., and J. C. Watt.
  Coleoptera: family-group review and keys to
  identification. Lincoln: Manaaki Whenua Press,
  1997.
• Kuschel, G. Beetles in a suburban
  environment: a New Zealand case study – the
  identity and status of Coleoptera in the natural
  and modified habitats of Lynfield, Auckland
  (1974–1989). Auckland: DSIR, 1990.
• Kuschel, G., ed. Biogeography and ecology in
  New Zealand. The Hague: Junk, 1975.
• Miller, David. Common insects in New
  Zealand. Revised by Annette Walker.
  Wellington: Reed, 1984.
• Smith, Arihia. Me ki he ingoa ngarara: let’s
  say insects and spiders. Lincoln: Lincoln
  University Press in association with Daphne Brasell
  Associates, 1997.