Matskási István (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 92. (Budapest 2000)

Medvedev, L. N.: Chrysomelidae (Coleoptera) of Laos from the collection of the Hungarian Natural History Museum

ANNALES HISTORICO-NATURALES MUSEI NATIONALIS HUNGARICI Volume 92 Budapes

t, 2000 pp. 161-182. Chrysomelidae (Coleoptera) of Laos from the collection of the Hungarian Natural History Museum L. N. MEDVEDEV A. N. Severtzov Institute of Ecology and Evolution Russian Academy of Sciences 1

17071 Moscow, Leninsky pr. 33, Russia e-mail: vladmed@online.ru MEDVEDEV, L. N. (2000): Chrysomelidae (Coleoptera) of Laos from the collection of the Hungarian Natural History Museum. - Annls hist.-nat. Mus. natn. hung. 92: 161-182. Abstract - A list of 132 species is given, among them 54 species are recorded from Laos for the first time. A new genus (Martinella), 13 new species - Coenobius ruficollis (also from Vietnam), Nodina laotica, Tricliona laotica, T. minuta, Hoplasoma cdlardi, Cneorella flavipes, Martinella merkli, M. vietnamica (Vietnam), Monolepta subimpressa, Sermyloides foveatus, Dercetina rugósa, Zipangia merkli, Aphthonomorpha laosensis - and one subspecies (Chabria ornata laosica) are described. A key to genus Martinella is given. New synonyms: Lema funerea, Ortholema elongatior, O. punctaticeps — O. mandarensis; Lema lateralis = Lema coromandeliana; Micrispa yunnanica = M. dentatithorax. With 22 figures. The Chrysomelidae of Laos are rather poorly investigated, in spite of a series of publications concerning the fauna of Indochina during the last 30 years. The present publication is based on the fairly large material of Hungarian Natural History Museum, all but a few exceptions collected by Dr. OTTÓ MERKL (curator of Coleoptera) and Dr. GÁBOR CSORBA (curator of Mammals) in March and April of 1998. This material (about 600 specimens) includes 132 species, among them one genus, thirteen species and one subspecies are new for science. The great majority of the material is deposited in the Hungarian Natural History Museum (HNHM), some duplicates are in the author's collection (LM) and in one case in the Naturhistorisches Museum Basel (NHMB). If not stated otherwise, the collectors are O. MERKL & G. CSORBA. I have omitted from the faunistic list any data concerning bibliography and general distribution of the species, as sufficient recently published data exist on these questions.