Israel Insect World

                                 Visits since October 2003            

Welcome,

This site is aiming to be a field guide to the small creature of the fauna of Israel. The main focus is Beetles

(Coleoptera). Other groups are also represented in lesser scale and some worldwide specimens are presented

as well. The site is being updtaed weekly in terms of new taxa and up to date taxonomical changes.

I hope you'll enjoy this site as much as I enjoy gathering the material for it.

You can contact me at: israelbutterflies@gmail.com

All the pictures in this web-site are for sale for publishing or any other purposes and are right protected, any use of

them require permision or else forbidden.  High resolution pictures are also available  for sale or by special request. 

Please visit my website about the insects of Argentina:

Please visit the new website dedicated to the Scarabs of the Levant (by Guido Sabatinelli):

List of people who contribute to the website in one one way or another, Thank you all:

Institutes:

Tel-Aviv University: Leonid Laibale Friedman, Alex Shlagman and Amnon Friedberg.

Plant Protection & Inspection Services of Israel (PPIS): Alexandra.G - Insect Collection.

Collegues, helpers and friends:

Guido Sabatinelli (Italy-Jordan) - Scarabaeoidea - Special thanks for endless guidence

Marco Uliana (Italy) - Cetoniinae, Glaphyridae

Pierre Tauzin (France) - Cetoniinae 

Gianfranco Sama (Italy) - Cerambycidae

Eylon Orbach (Israel) - Brentidae, Cerambycidae

Stephano Ziani (Italy) - Scarabaeinae 

Avihai Benyamini (Israel) - Inveryebrates rearing

Mark Volkovich (Russia) - Buprestidae IDs (Laboratory of Insect Systematics, Zoological Institute

RAS, Universitetskaya nab,St.Petersburg)

Klaas-Douwe B. Dijkstra (Netherlands) - Odonata IDs (National Museum of Natural History).

Andreas Hermann (Germany) - Dermestidae IDs.

My father and my wife - Patience, friendship and help in the field and indoor.