Arthropods
Beetles and arthropods are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Beetles" instead a noun "Arthropods".
Beetles
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You still shoot from the bottom of the screen at a field of mushrooms, but instead of battling just the original four arthropods, you now face a deadlier variety of enemy bugs: millipedes, spiders, bees, beetles, earwigs, inchworms, dragonflies, and mosquitoes.
Source: Video Game / Millipede -
Though they're more of a mishmash of various arthropods including spiders, beetles and mantids.
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After each film, members of the department would bring out live examples of the corresponding arthropods — large tarantulas and stag beetles were favorites — and pass them among the audience while they explained how the film Fails Biology Forever.
Source: Big Creepy-Crawlies
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