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Any insect of the order Coleoptera, having biting mouthparts and forewings modified to form shell-like protective elytra. (Source: CED)

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Nicolson SW, Hanrahan SA 1986. Diuresis in a desert beetle? hormonal control of the malpighian tubules of Onymacris plana (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae). Journal of Comparative Physiology B 156 (3) 407-413

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF01101103

Rasmussen JL, Seely MK, Pietruszka RD 1991. The reproductive behavior of six species of Namib desert tenebrionid beetles (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae). Journal of Insect Behavior 4 (5) 567-582

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF01048071

Ward D, Seely MK 1996. Competition and habitat selection in Namib desert tenebrionid beetles. Evolutionary Ecology 10 (4) 341-359

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF01237722

McClain E, Praetorius RL, Hanrahan SA, Seely MK 1984. Dynamics of the wax bloom of a seasonal Namib Desert tenebrionid, Cauricara phalangium (Coleoptera: Adesmiini). Oecologia 63 (3) 314-319

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00390659

McClain E, Kok CJ, Monrad LAG 1991. Reflective wax blooms on black Namib desert beetles enhance day activity. Naturw 78 (1) 40-42

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF01134045

Hauffe HC, Searle JB, Seely MK 1994. The taxonomic status of two morphotypes of the tenebrionid Onymacris rugatipennis: indications from behavioural and genetical studies. Journal of Zoology 233 (2) 193-201

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1469-7998.1994.tb08583.x/abstract;jsessionid=EFB49D78DDB1474BAD38520AECC42C29.d04t03?deniedAccessCustomisedMessage=&userIsAuthenticated=false

McClain E, Seely MK, Hadley NF, Gray V 1985. Wax Blooms in Tenebrionid Beetles of the Namib Desert: Correlations with Environment. Ecology 66 (1) 112-118

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/1941311?uid=4&sid=21102338722657

Ward D, Seely MK 1996. Adaptation and Constraint in the Evolution of the Physiology and Behavior of the Namib Desert Tenebrionid Beetle Genus Onymacris. Evolution 50 (3) 1231-1240

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/2410663?uid=4&sid=21102165041421

Hamilton III WJ, Seely MK 1976. Fog basking by the Namib Desert beetle, Onymacris unguicularis. Nature 262 (5566) 284-285

Website link:https://www.nature.com/articles/262284a0

Bartholomew GA, Lighton JRB, Louw GN 1985. Energetics of locomotion and patterns of respiration in tenebrionid beetles from the Namib Desert. Journal of Comparative Psychology B 155 (2) 155-162

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2FBF00685208

Seely MK, Lewis JC, O'Brien KA, Suttle AE 1983. Fog response of tenebrionid beetles in the Namib Desert. Journal of Arid Environments 6 (2) 135-143

Website link:http://agris.fao.org/agris-search/search.do?recordID=US201302616026

Seely MK 1979. Irregular fog as a water source for desert dune beetles. Oecologia 42 (2) 213-227

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2FBF00344858

Naidu SG, Hattingh J 1988. Water balance and osmoregulation in Physadesmia globosa, a diurnal tenebrionid beetle from the Namib desert. Journal of Insect Physiology 34 (10) 911-917

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0022191088901266

Water vapor harvesting: Namib desert beetle. Ask Nature

Website link:http://www.asknature.org/strategy/dc2127c6d0008a6c7748e4e4474e7aa1

Dacke M, Baird E, Byrne M, Scholtz CH, Warrant EJ Dung Beetles Use the Milky Way for Orientation. 23 4 (298-300) 2013

Website link:http://www.cell.com/current-biology/retrieve/pii/S0960982212015072

Nørgaard T, Dacke M 2010. Fog-basking behaviour and water collection efficiency in Namib Desert Darkling beetles. Frontiers in Zoology 7 23

Website link:http://www.frontiersinzoology.com/content/7/1/23

Nørgaard T, Ebner M, Dacke M 2012. Animal or Plant: Which Is the Better Fog Water Collector?. Plos ONE 7 (4) e34603

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Hamilton III WJ, Penrith M-L 1977. Description of an individual possible hybrid tenebrionid beetle and the habitat preference of the parental species. The Canadian Entomologist 109 701-710

Website link:http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=8554747

Seely MK, Hamilton III WJ 1976. Fog Catchment Sand Trenches Constructed by Tenebrionid Beetles, Lepidochora, from the Namib Desert. Science 193 (4252) 484-486

Website link:http://www.sciencemag.org/content/193/4252/484.abstract

Naidu SG 2001. Osmoregulation in Onymacris rugatipennis, a free-ranging tenebrionid beetle from the Namib Desert. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A: Molecular & Integrative Physiology 129 (4) 873-885

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S109564330100352X

Naidu SG 1998. Haemolymph Amino Acid, Sugar and Glycerol Levels in the Namib Desert Tenebrionid Stips stali During Dehydration and Rehydration. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A: Molecular & Integrative Physiology 119 (2) 477-484

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1095643397004546

Naidu SG 2001. Water balance and osmoregulation in Stenocara gracilipes, a wax-blooming tenebrionid beetle from the Namib Desert. Journal of Insect Physiology 47 (12) 1429-1440

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022191001001330

Scholtz CH, Harrison JG, Grebennikov VV 2004. Dung beetle (Scarabaeus (Pachysoma)) biology and immature stages: reversal to ancestral states under desert conditions (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae)?. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 83 (4) 453-460

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1095-8312.2004.00389.x/abstract

Winterbottom JM 1966. Results of the Percy FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology Windhoek State Museum ornithological expeditions. 4. Notes on the food of Tyto alba in the Etosha Pan. Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology 37 139 - 140

Website link:http://www.fitzpatrick.uct.ac.za/docs/pub1966.html

Polis GA, Barnes JD, Seely MK, Henschel JR, Enders MM 1998. Predation as a major cost of reproduction in Namib Desert tenebrionid beetles. Ecology 79 (7) 2560-2566

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1890/0012-9658(1998)079%5B2560:PAAMCO%5D2.0.CO;2/full

Steckel J, Penrith ML, Henschel J, Brandl R, Meyer J 2010. A preliminary molecular phylogeny of the Namib Desert darkling beetles (Tenebrionidae). African Zoology 45 107-114

Website link:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15627020.2010.11657259

Rössl R 2000. Reproduktionsbiologie, Entwicklungsbiologie und Ökologie von sympatrischen Tenebrionidae (Coleoptera: Insecta) des Kuiseb bei Gobabeb in der Namib Wüste / Namibia.

Website link:http://d-nb.info/960963324

Marden JH 1987. In pursuit of females: following and contest behavior by males of a Namib Desert tenebrionid beetle, Physadesmia globosa. Ethnology 75 (1) 15-24

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1439-0310.1987.tb00638.x/abstract

Holter P, Scholtz CH, Stenseng L 2009. Desert detritivory: Nutritional ecology of a dung beetle (Pachysoma glentoni) subsisting on plant litter in arid South African sand dunes. Journal of Arid Environments 73 (12) 1090-1094

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Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S014019630900113X

Deschodt CM, Davis ALV, Scholtz CH 2011. New dung beetle (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae) taxa from arid south-western Africa. Insect Systematics and Evolution 42 (3) 277-294

Website link:http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/journals/10.1163/187631211x568173?crawler=true

Deschodt CM, Kryger U, Scholtz CH 2007. New taxa of relictual Canthonini dung beetles (Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae) utilizing rock hyrax middens as refuges in South-western Africa. Insect Systematics and Evolution 38 (4) 361-376

Website link:http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/journals/10.1163/187631207788784067?crawler=true

Frolov AV, Akhmetova LA, Scholtz CH 2008. Revision of the obligate mushroom‐feeding African "dung beetle" genus Coptorhina Hope (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae). Journal of Natural History 42 (21-22) 1477-1508

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00222930802002535#.VLYnUGctApE

Hesse AJ 1928. Some new species of curculionidae from South Africa and South-West Africa. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa 16 (2) 131-167

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Schawaller W, Grimm R 2014. The genus Alphitobius Stephens (Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae, Alphitobiini) in Africa and adjacent islands. Zookeys 415 169-190

Website link:http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4089823/

Scholtz CH 1988. Biology of Sparrmannia flava Arrow (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae). The Coleopterists Bulletin 42 (1) 57-62

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/stable/4008564

Arrow GJ 1917. III. - Some systematic notes on melolonthine Coleoptera. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 19 (109) 59-65

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222931709486912#.VI_jVmctApE

Harrison J du G, Scholtz CH, Chown SL 2003. A revision of the endemic south-western African dung beetle subgenus Scarabaeus (Pachysoma) MacLeay, including notes on other flightless Scarabaeini (Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae). Journal of Natural History 37 (3) 305-355

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/713834683#.VGtAOlItBHg

Hull HE, Freitag S, Chown SL, Bellamy CL 1998. Identification and evaluation of priority conservation areas for Buprestidae (Coleoptera) in South Africa, Lesotho, Swaziland and Namibia. African Entomology (6) 265-274

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Gerstmeier R 2018. Checklist of the checkered beetles of Namibia (Coleoptera, Cleridae). Namibian Journal Of Environment (2) 7-21

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Bologna MA, Amore V, Pitzalis M 2018. Meloidae of Namibia (Coleoptera): Taxonomy and faunistics with biogeographic and ecological notes. Zootaxa (4373) 001–141

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Lamb T, Marais E, Bond JE 2017. A second locality for the Namib darkling beetle Onymacris brainei (Tenebrionidae, Coleoptera) and first report on its molecular phylogenetic placement. ZooKeys (687) 63-72

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Deschodt CM, Davis ALV 2017. Transfer of three species of Namakwanus Scholtz & Howden to Versicorpus Deschodt, Davis & Scholtz or to Namaphilus gen. nov., with descriptions of two new species (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae). Annals of the Ditsong National Museum (7) 109–114

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Roberts CS, Seely M, Ward D, Mitchell D, Campbell JD 2008. Body temperatures of Namib Desert tenebrionid beetles: their relationship in laboratory and field. Physiological Entomology (16) 463-475

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Wessels DCJ, Wessels LA, Holzapfel WH 1979. Preliminary Report on Lichen-Feeding Coleoptera Occurring on Teloschistes capensis in the Namib Desert, South West Africa. The Bryologist (82) 270-273

Website link:https://www.jstor.org/stable/3242084

Chaboo CS, Biesele M, Hitchcock RK, Weeks A 2016. Beetle and plant arrow poisons of the Ju|’hoan and Hai||om San peoples of Namibia (Insecta, Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae; Plantae, Anacardiaceae, Apocynaceae, Burseraceae). Zookeys (558) 9-54

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Edney EB 1971. Body temperatures in tenebrionid beetles in the Namib Desert of southern Africa. Journal of Experimental Biology 55 253–272

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du Guesclin Harrison J 1999. Systematics of the endemic south-west African dung beetle genus Pachysoma MacLeay (Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae).

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Lombard A 1989. The thermal implications and ecological consequences of coloration in selected species: tenebrionid beetles (Onymacris bicolor and Onymacris ungui cularis), Cape gannets (Morus capensis) and Cape cormorants (Phalacrocorax capensis).

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Gerstmeier R 2019. Supplement to "Checklist of the checkered beetles of Namibia" (Coleoptera, Cleridae). Namibian Journal of Environment 3 (B) 8-13

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Checklist of the checkered beetles of Namibia_2019.pdf	1.49 MB

Yu Z, Zhang H, Huang J, Li S, Zhang S, Cheng Y, Mao J, Dong X, Gao S, Wang S, Chen Z, Jiang Y, Lai Y 2020. Namib desert beetle inspired special patterned fabric with programmable and gradient wettability for efficient fog harvesting. Journal of Materials Science and Technology 61 85-92

Website link:https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1005030220305879