Texas Beetle Information

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Comparative Beetle, Botany and Bird Diversity

of Texas and North America


 

Numbers and Sources

Beetles

Botany

Birds

Texas

7,500

4839

623

North America

25,160

18,100

940

Beetle Diversity: Edward G. Riley (Pers. Com., 2006), Marske & Ivie 2003
Vascular Plant Diversity: Correll & Johnston 1970; Flora of North America
Bird Diversity: Lockwood & Freeman 2004; ABA Checklist


ABA Checklist ~ American Birding Association. 2005.

Correll, D.S. & M.C. Johnston. 1970. Manual of the vascular plants of Texas. Texas Research Foundation, Renner, TX. 1881 pp.

Flora of North America Editorial Committee, (eds). 1993+. Flora of North America North of Mexico. 7+ vols. New York and Oxford.

Lockwood, M.W. & B. Freeman. 2004. The TOS Handbook of Texas Birds. Texas A&M University Press, College Station. 261 pp.

Marske, K.A. & M.A. Ivie. 2003. Beetle Fauna of the United States and Canada. The Coleopterists Bulletin 57(4): 495–503.


28 Sep 2006  © Mike Quinn / mike.quinn@tpwd.state.tx.us / Texas Entomology / Texas Beetle Information