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A REVISION OF THE ALLECULIDAE (COLEOPTERA) OF THE WEST INDIES

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

J. M. Campbell
J. M. Campbell*
Affiliation:
Entomology Research Institute, Canada Department of Agriculture, Ottawa
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Abstract

Eleven genera and 70 species of West Indian Alleculidae are revised. All known taxa of the family from the Bahama Islands, the Greater and Lesser Antilles, and the Cayman Islands are included. Five new genera (Parahymenorus, Latacula, Notacula, Obesacula, and Punctacula) are described and three genera are recorded from the West Indies for the first time (Cteisa, Pseudocistela, and Allecula). All five of the described subgenera of Lobopoda are recorded from the region, Glabrilobopoda for the first time. Forty-seven new species and one new subspecies are described in the genera Pseudocistela, Lobopoda, Allecula, Hymenorus, Parahymenorus, Latacula, Notacula, Obesacula, and Punctacula. Cistelopsis striatus Pic is transferred to the genus Hymenorus.Keys to the genera, subgenera, species, and subspecies are presented. All taxa are described or redescribed and major diagnostic characters are illustrated. Habitus illustrations are included for each genus. A zoogeographic discussion of the taxa, including distributional tables, is presented.

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The Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada , Volume 103 , Supplement S81 , 1971 , pp. 7 - 140
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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1971

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