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ROVARTANI KÖZLEMÉNYEK XLV. 1 1984 p. 69-108 A catalogue of Tenebrionid beetles (Coleoptera: Heteromera) of the West Indies By G. MARCUZZI (Received 3 February,

1984) Abstract: Catalogue of Tenebrlonidae (Coleoptera, Heteromera) from the West Indies complemented with the entire literature and distributional data of genera and species. The increasing interest in the Tenebrionid fauna of the Caribbean area has brought to the study and description of several new genera and many new species from the epoch of GEBIEN'

s Katalog and BLACKWELDER'

s Checklist. My researches on this fauna, started in 1948, have shown Its enormous biogeographlcal importance, similar to what had been previously and contemporaneously shown by other students of insular Tenebrionid faunas of the Old World (KOCH, ESPANOL, GRIDELLI, etc.). For all these reasons I considered it opportune and useful to compile a Catalogue of all the species known so far from the Leeward Islands and the Antilles proper, which as a whole show some affinities. Since the Catalogue is referring to a rather limited area, and because of the biogeographlcal interest of many species, I have decided to use a rather detailed indication of the distribution, taking into consideration also the smallest islands (Grenada, the Grenadines, Tobago, Cayman, etc.); in some Instances I have indicated also in which part of an island (Cuba, Jamaica) the species has been found. This will prove to be different from the criteria followed by both GEBIEN and BLACKWELDER, though the latter Is much more detailed than the former. This Catalogue is principally based on GEBIEN'

s Katalog and BLACKWELDER'

s Checklist, secondarily on LENG & MUTCHLER' s List of Coleopterous Insects of the West Indies (in the Catalogue simply indicated as LENG) and on WOLCOTT'

s list of Tenebrionids of Puerto Rico, Integrated by all the data existing in the more recent bibliography (of course not included in BLACKWELDER'

s Checklist). Some data are based on the examinations the performed by author in many important collections, such as those preserved at the British Museum (N.H.), the Museum Georg Frey, Tutzing, the Zoologische Sammlung des Bayerischen Staates, Munich, the Nat.

Museum of Paris, the Nat.

Museum of Budapest, Museum of Natural History, Vienna, Museum of "La Salle", Caracas, Museum of Mayagiiez, Puerto Rico, the Brème collection, preserved at the Institute of Zoology of the University, Torino, and several other smaller collections. A great source of data was the enormous materials collected by Dr.P.

Wagenaar HUMMELINCK, The University,Utrecht, on the Leeward Islands and the Antilles proper. All this material has been studied by the author (see References), as were the materials collected in recent times in the French Antilles (cfr.