Review of the Cassidinae of Ecuador, with a description of thirteen new species (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)
1998; Volume: 09; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
ISSN
0867-1710
Autores Tópico(s)Forest Insect Ecology and Management
ResumoA complete list of 200 species of the subfamily Cassidinae recorded from Ecuador is given, 44 for the first time, and 13 of them are new to the science: Cyrtonota christophori, Omaspides unicolor, Stolas zumbaensis, Stolas stolida ssp. jadwiszczaki, Stolas napoensis (also from Colombia), Stolas perezi, Stolas sanguineovittata, Stolas erectepilosa, Stolas echoma, Discomorpha onorei, Nuzonia brevicornis, Cyclocassis secunda and Plagiometriona losi. Four species have been excluded from Ecuadorian fauna, 70 species (35 %) are known only from Ecuador. The Cassidinae of Ecuador are poorly known. Most records are scattered in numerous papers with descriptions of new species or results of scientific expedi- tions, only BOROWIEC (1996) listed a number of species from the country (79, including the tribe Imatidiini). I have had an opportunity to study a large material from Ecuador, mostly recent, from Departamento de Ciencias BiolUgicas Pontifica Universidad CatUlica del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador (UCE), Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Firenze, Itlay (MZUF), Snow Entomological Museum, Lawrence, USA (SEM), from private collections of my friends M. DACCORDI (MD, Torino, Italy), D. SASSI (DS, Italy), A. JASI—SKI (AJA), K. £Oa (KL) and P. WGRZYNOWICZ (PW) (all from Warsaw, Poland), A. JADWISZCZAK (AJ) (Olsztyn, Poland), and my own collection (LB). Based on this material and literature data I have compiled a catalogue of all
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