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Beetles
(Coleoptera)
About
240 species are endemic, 150 in nature, 30 indoors and 60 are vagrants.
*The row beetle (Staphylinitae) and **ground beetle (Carabidae)
are the most common.
*The
row beetle.
About 70 species.
The world total is about 20.000.
**The
ground beetle.
About 70 species.
The world total is about 20.000.
Moths
and butterflies (Lepitoptera)
About
100 species have been spotted, 60 endemic (7 indoors) and the rest
vagrants.
All the endemic species are moths.
Butterflies are non-existent (about 400 species in Western
Europe).
Moths are monotonously coloured.
Bugs
(Hemiptera)
About
80 species have been spotted in Iceland, i.e. plant louse (Aphis).
Spring
tails (Collembola)
About
80 species have been found in Iceland.
They are soil bugs, important for the decomposition of the soil. |