Coléoptères is a French-language

French language

French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...

 scientific journal

Scientific journal

In academic publishing, a scientific journal is a periodical publication intended to further the progress of science, usually by reporting new research. There are thousands of scientific journals in publication, and many more have been published at various points in the past...

 of entomology

Entomology

Entomology is the scientific study of insects, a branch of arthropodology...

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History

Following the cessation of publication of the Bulletin de la Société Sciences Nat

Bulletin de la Société Sciences Nat

The Bulletin de la Société Sciences Nat was a French entomological scientific journal. It was published by Sciences Nat and established in 1972.- History :...

in 1995, there was a major need of entomologists for a journal that could publish descriptions of new species of insects very rapidly, and the same year the journals Coléoptères and Besoiro

Besoiro

Besoiro is a French entomological scientific journal. It is published by Patrick Arnaud and was established in 1995. The name means beetle in Portuguese. The taxa described are included on the Zoological Record volumes....

were established.

Composition

Each number follows some rules about presentation and contains only one work. Black-and-white figures, but also many colour photographs, illustrate the publications.

Authors

At the beginning, several authors published in the journal, but now only some specialists do, mainly Philippe Antoine Cetoniidae

Flower chafer

Flower chafers are a group of scarab beetles, comprising the subfamily Cetoniinae. Many species are diurnal and visit flowers for pollen and nectar, or to browse on the petals. Some species also feed on fruit. The group is also called fruit and flower chafers, flower beetles and flower scarabs...

, Roger-Paul Dechambre Dynastidae

Rhinoceros beetle

The Rhinoceros Beetles or Rhino Beetles are a subfamily of the scarab beetle family . Other common names – some for particular groups of rhino beetles – are for example Hercules beetles, unicorn beetles or horn beetles...

, Thierry Deuve Carabidae

Ground beetle

Ground beetles are a large, cosmopolitan family of beetles, Carabidae, with more than 40,000 species worldwide, approximately 2,000 of which are found in North America and 2,700 in Europe.-Description and ecology:...

, Gérard Tavakilian Cerambycidae

Longhorn beetle

The longhorn beetles are a cosmopolitan family of beetles, typically characterized by extremely long antennae, which are often as long as or longer than the beetle's body...

, and Marc Lacroix Melolonthinae

Melolonthinae

Melolonthinae is a subfamily of the scarab beetles . It is a very diverse group; distributed over most of the world, it contains many familiar species. Some authors include the scarab subfamilies Euchirinae and Pachypodinae as tribes in the Melolonthinae.Unlike some of their relatives, their...

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Production

The size of the journal is A5

ISO 216

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; it is produced by photocopying

Photocopier

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. There is no regular periodicity, a new issue is published when a new work is accepted by the editorial board

Editorial board

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Circulation

Each issue is produced at about hundred copies, of which many are sent to other specialists in the world, and about 50 copies are available for sale. When an issue is exhausted, a reissue is done.