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Marcuzzi, G.: Supplement to the catalogue of Tenebrionidae (Coleoptera) of the West Indies

ANNALES HISTORICO-NATURALES MUSEI NATIONALIS HUNGARICI Volume 90. Budapest, 1998 pp. 151-162. Supplement to the catalogue of Tenebrionidae (Coleoptera) of the West Indies G. MARCUZZI Université cli Padova, Dipartitnento di Biológia Via Trieste, 75, 35121 Padova, Italia MARCUZZI, G. (1998): Supplement to the catalogue of Tenebrionid beetles (Coleoptera: Hcteromera) of the West Indies. - Annls hist.-nat. Mus. natn. hung. 90: 151-162. Abstract - A supplement to the catalogue of Tenebrionid beetles of the West Indies (MARCUZZI 1984) is presented, including all species and higher taxa described after its publication, with indication of all precedent papers on larval stage, genitalia, phylogenesis and biogeography of several species. Biektwskia MARCUZZI, 1985 is a junior synonym of Trimytantron ARDOIN, 1977. This supplement to my catalogue of tenebrionids of the West Indies (MARCUZZI 1984) is devoted to include some information present also in some precedent catalogues of tenebrionids - some of which are nowadays "classic", as CASEY'S Monograph of the Eleodini of the United States and Lower California of 1909 - about several aspects of Tenebrionids, such as "biology" (morphology of larva, morphology of genitalia) systematics (phylogenesis) or distribution (biogeography). GEBIEN (1937-1944) in his catalogue under the title "Biologie" includes information on ecology, bionomics or physiology, as well as larval morphology. Another title GEBIEN used is "Anatomie", which can include also the genitalia of a few species, both male and female. In GEBIEN'S catalogue there are also two small chapters (first part, 1937: 519-521) dedicated to a given group or to a region, but not to single species (West Indies are unfortunately not included). Among Caribbean Tenebrionids for instance, maybe the best illustrated species from the "biological" point of view in GEBIEN'S catalogue is Zophobas atratus (second part, 1938^12: 630). For Opatrinus gemellatus "Biologie" deals with the damages in agriculture of Trinidad, and the quoted data appear also in Rev. Appl. Entomology (second part, 1938^42: 416). For Blapstinus, notes on agricultural importance are quoted exclusively for some species of the United States. In the present catalogue I deliberately never took into consideration the economic aspects of tenebrionids. This has been done only by MARCUZZI & d'AGUILAR (1971) in their catalogue of the tenebrionid beetles of the French Antilles. In this catalogue two characters strictly related to systematics are indicated, biogeography and phylogenesis. Phylogenesis has been considered for the first time in the tropics of the New World by BLAISDELL (1909) in this monograph on Eleodini inhabiting