Family Bothrideridae - Dry Bark Beetles

Full title: Synopsis of adventive species of Coleoptera (Insecta) recorded from Canada. Part 4: Scarabaeoidea, Scirtoidea, Buprestoidea, Byrrhoidea, Elateroidea, Derodontoidea, Bostrichoidea, and Cleroidea 📥︎

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Peck, S.B. (2015). The Beetles of the Lesser Antilles (Insecta, Coleoptera): Diversity and Distributions. Insecta Mundi 0460: 1-360.

Abstract

The island arc of the Lesser Antilles lies at the eastern margin of the Caribbean Sea in the Western Hemisphere, and stretches from the eastern end of the islands of the Greater Antilles (at the Virgin Islands), south to a position near the continental islands of Trinidad and Tobago at the north eastern corner of South America. The islands are a part of the West Indian Islands biodiversity “hotspot” and have been available for terrestrial colonization for about the past 15 million years. This is a status report on present knowledge of the beetle faunas of these islands, which is composed of 90 families, 1,210 genera, and 2,612 recognized species (emphasis added). Many additional species are not yet identified, or are unnamed, or remain to be discovered. Reported for the first time from the Lesser Antilles are four families, 49 genera, 105 species, and 1253 new island records.

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Yanega, D., and R.A.B. Leschen. (1994). Beetles associated with bee nests (Hymenoptera: Apidae) in Chiapas, México, with descriptions of the immature stages of Vanonus balteatus Werner (Coleoptera: Aderidae, Endomychidae, Meloidae). The Coleopterists Bulletin 48(4): 355–360.

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Bionomic notes are presented for four species of beetles [Vanonus balteatus Werner (Aderidae), Evolocera sp. (Endomychidae), Nemognatha chrysomeloides (L.) and Tetraonyx sp. (Meloidae)] associated with a mixed aggregation of solitary apid bees [Melitoma marginella (Cresson), Ancyloscelis apiformis (F.), and Centris analis (F.)] in Chiapas, México.