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Reports on food of beetles in two families in based on dissections of specimens and identification of gut contents. For Carabidae, 185 specimens representing 38 species and 20 genera were examined. For Coccinellidae, 20 specimens in 3 genera were examined. Results are summarized at the genus level, with a general summary for each family also provided.
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Stephen Alfred Forbes (1883) studied this question.