Coleoptera: Central Europe

This is a reference collection of species occurring in Central Europe. It provides the user with an overview of the native species, according to the identification volumes of Freude/Harde/Lohse (1965 ff.). The pictures can be used as an identification guide or for validation at least.

The photographed taxa are not checked for validity and denominate synonyms in some cases. This will be improved in the course of the project. Affected drawers will be scanned again and the online pictures replaced.
Every image is a composite of 30–42 pictures, which were combined using stitching-software (AutoStitch or Image Composite Editor). In a few cases, there are insular artefacts within the overlapping zones because of the parallactic deviation.

All images and photographs on these websites can be used by the Creative Commons-Licence CC-BY 4.0 . Copyright: SMNS.