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

the United States, Lower California and adjacent islands under the title "genealogy". In this work for individual species or for some groups or "tribes" a true phylogenetic tree is constructed, probably the first existing for American tenebrionids. BLAISDELL describes the larvae so far known in Eleodini in a small chapter at the end of his Monograph. Probably the first description of genitalia in American Tenebrionidae is that done by BLAISDELL (1909) for Eleodini, where the female genitalia are first described, in a complete, exact form in extra-European tenebrionids. In this supplement I take into consideration - to be in line with GEBIEN'S and BLAISDELL'S works, though for a very small number of species - larval morphology (limited to integument), external genitalia, phylogenetic aspects (limited to the few cases I recently studied) and finally some zoogeographical features we find in several genera or higher taxa. After 13 years from the data of my catalogue, one tribus, Zopherini, has been removed from Tenebrionidae to a separate family. The genus from Cuba I described as new, Bielawskia, proved to a be a synonym of Trimytantron, which I did not know "t/e visu" when described Bielawskia, also because of the great difficulty to have in Italy the paper of ARDOIN ( 1977) published in Romania. The number of species has been brought from c. 250 to 290. Of course, the number is still very low in comparison with the real one, which only future explorations (today highly improbable) would demonstrate. Only for Venezuela, in the last few years the number of known species has increased considerably due to revision of old collections (e.g. that of the Natural History Museum, London) and some recent very accurate collections made in this country by a very few persons. The increase for the West Indies from 250 to 290 in 13 years demonstrates the lack of studies of Neotropical tenebrionids. Most new species come from Cuba, where collection of beetles (not only tenebrionids) has been very thoroughly carried on. Note: For each taxon the number of page of the catalogue (MARCUZZI 1984) in which it appeared is indicated at left, at the beginning of the taxon. 71 Epitragus LATREILLE, 1802 71 E. roscidus EEICHSON, 1848 MARCUZZI 1983: 241, fig. 2 (male genitalia). E. jamaicensis CHAMPION, 1896 CHAMPION: Trans. R. ent. Soc. London 1896, 3rd footnote. - LENG: List Col. W. Indies 1914: 460. - GEBIEN 1937-1944: 564. - Distribution: Jamaica, Dominican Republic (Santo Domingo, Beni, Boca Chica). 73 Tapirwcomus GEBIEN, 1928 73 T. subnudus GEBIEN, 1928 MARCUZZI 1983: 243, fig. 7 (male genitalia). 73 Stictoderia GEBIEN, 1928 73 S. subseriata GEBIEN, 1928 MARCUZZI 1983: 243, fig. 5 (male genitalia). - MARCUZZI 1986: 89 (biogeography). - MARCUZZI 1987: 89, fig. 3 (female genitalia). - MARCUZZI 19886: 349, fig. 6, 10 (phylogenesis).