An inordinate fondness for beetles

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Building the Coleoptera tree‐of‐life for >8000 species: composition of public DNA data and fit with Linnaean classification (2014, background): “Coleoptera are by far the most species-rich animal radiation (Grove & Stork, 2000).”
Green algae and the origin of land plants. (2004, background): “To paraphrase J. B. S. Haldane (cited in Evans et al., 2000 ), nature must have had an inordinate fondness for coc- coids.”
Saproxylic beetle assemblages related to silvicultural management intensity and stand structures in a beech forest in Southern Germany (2008, background): “highest species richness (Grove and Stork 2000), but also the best known one in Central Europe (Freude”
Weevils, weevils, weevils everywhere* (2007, unknown): “…an inordinate fondness for beetles because there are so many of them (Hutchinson 1959, Gould 1993) has become a catchphrase for various expositions of the phenomenal number of species in this insect order (Evans & Bellamy 1996, Farrell 1998, Barraclough et al. 1998, Grove & Stork 2000, New 2005).”
Chemical Signalling in Beetles (2005, background): “In the following review, the order of the sections has been arranged according to taxonomical classifications [74, 75].”