Coleoptera

Beetle

Hemma Yulfi
Parasitology Dept.
FK USU
Introduction

• Common name: beetles

• Complete metamorphosis
• Some species are wingless, but at least
have the fore pair, called elytra, which
are not for flight

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Medical importance

• Very few of medical entomologist

concern
• Scavenger beetles are potentially of
public health importance, due to their
habit to feed on dead animals, which
may accidentally bring them to the
contact with pathogenic organisms

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Medical importance

• Intermediate host of helminthic parasites,

due to their habit that enable them to
feed on fecal materials
• Canthariasis: beetles infestation (larva or
adult) of man body organs, e.g.
alimentary canal
• Miscellaneous annoying beetles
• Ectoparasite in animals (vet medicine)
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