Specimen Gallery
Arctic Arthropod Specimen Gallery
Beetles are a group of insects that form the order Coleoptera, in the superorder Endopterygota. The Coleoptera, with about 400,000 species, is the largest of all orders, constituting almost 40% of described insects and 25% of all known animal life-forms. Read more at Wikipedia
Flies are insects of the order Diptera, the name being derived from the Greek “di” (two), and “pteron” (wing). Diptera is a large order containing an estimated 1,000,000 species including horse-flies, crane flies, hoverflies and others, although only about 125,000 species have been described. Read more at Wikipedia
Hymenoptera is a large order of insects, comprising the sawflies, wasps, bees, and ants. Over 150,000 living species of Hymenoptera have been described, in addition to over 2,000 extinct ones. Many of the species are parasitic. Read more at Wikipedia