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J.P. and Nelson, B., 2012, An Annotated Checklist of the Irish Hemiptera and Small Orders.The Irish Biogeographical Society and the National Museum of Ireland, Dublin Berend Aukema and Christian Rieger (Editors) Catalogue of the Heteroptera of the Palaearctic Region (5-Volumes and supplement) Amsterdam : The Netherlands Entomological Society ...
These are disposed in 84 families. By contrast there are 4,034 species of Coleoptera in the British Isles, consisting of 106 families. The largest beetle families in Ireland are the rove beetles (Staphylinidae) with 641 species, the weevils (Curculionidae) with 214 species, and the ground beetles (Carabidae) with 210 species. [1] [2] [3]
Trombidium holosericeum, a red velvet mite that lives in soil and feeds on insects. [4] Pholcus phalangioides , the skull spider, found in County Kerry. [ 5 ] Egg sac of Ero furcata , a pirate spider found in coastal parts of Ireland. [ 6 ]
Cryptops hortensis, a centipede common in coastal areas of Ireland. Glomeris marginata, a pill millipede found in all parts of the island. Lithobius forficatus, the brown or stone centipede. Greenhouse millipede (Oxidus gracilis), a common pest. Polydesmus angustus, the flat-backed millipede.
The Moths and Butterflies of Great Britain and Ireland. Vol. 7 Part 1 (Hesperiidae to Nymphalidae). Harley Books, Colchester, UK. K. G. M. Bond; R. Nash & J. P. O'Connor, An Annotated Checklist of the Irish Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera). The Irish Biogeographical Society in association with the National Museum of Ireland, Dublin, 2006.
In Irish, the beetle is called dearga-daol [8] or darbh-daol. [9] The Irish also called it "the coffin cutter." [ 10 ] British folklore has it that a beetle has eaten the core of Eve's apple, and that a person who crushes such a beetle is forgiven seven sins.
Birds in Ireland. T & A.D Poyser. ISBN 978-0-85661-052-3. Nunn, J.D. (ed.) 2002 Marine Biodiversity in Ireland and Adjacent Waters. Proceedings of a Conference 26–27 April 2001. Ulster Museum publication no. 8. Irish Wildlife Manuals is a series of contract reports relating to the conservation management of habitats and species in Ireland.
Irish moths represent about 1,400 different types of moths. The moths (mostly nocturnal ) and butterflies (mostly diurnal ) together make up the taxonomic order Lepidoptera . This is a list of moth species which have been recorded in Ireland .