When did the name Beetle come from? What I want to ask is the origin of the Chinese name of this insect rather than the car brand. Thanks

My understanding is that there are many sources of Chinese names for insects, animals and plants, and they will all be adopted by scientific workers. But the only clearly named name can only be the Latin scientific name, which is universally accepted.

Then the unification of Chinese names in professional fields mainly comes from these sources.

1. It has been used in ancient China to this day. For example - Shougua, cantharis, beetle, these are the names of Coleoptera beetles. These names have been used for many years in history and are recorded in ancient books such as Compendium of Materia Medica. It is still used in science today, including insects of the same family and genus, can bear these suffixes - XX beetle, XX shougua.

2. On the basis of 1, with the introduction of the modern biological classification system, from the late Qing Dynasty to the present, Chinese scientific researchers have been constantly naming and revising species. Among them, "Chinese Animals" It seems that the compilation of "Zhi" has not been completed yet, and it has consumed the efforts of several generations of scientific researchers. This also includes the naming of the beetles you mentioned. This set of books is the Chinese standard. The basis for naming is based on foreign naming principles, records of overseas Chinese materials such as Hong Kong and Taiwan, and domestic records. Try to use the name that is more commonly used academically.