A brilliantly luminous click beetle, Pyrophorus noctilucus, one of the elaters.

A long-horned beetle (Sarosesthes fulminans) whose larva bores in the trunks of oak and chestnut trees.

plural of beetle brow

An overhanging brow.

A very large cetoniid beetle of the genus Goliathus.

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see black, beetle. / The oriental cockroach, Blatta orientalis (a large roach from the family Blattidae).

A species of darkling beetle (or darkening beetle), Tenebrio molitor, in the family Tenebrionidae, whose larvae (mealworms) are typically used as a food source for reptile, fish, and avian pets.

A chrysomelid beetle of the genus Diabrotica or the genus Acalymma (in subtribe Diabroticina), often found on the leaves and flowers of cucurbits.

(Australia, informal) any of the beetles of the genus Anoplognathus

A billbug or weevil.