Consideraciones sobre el género Diastolinus (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: Pedinini) en Cuba, con descripción de dos nuevas especies.

Authors

Orlando H. Garrido, Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, La Habana, Cuba
Esteban Gutierrez, Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, La Habana, Cuba

Date of this Version

March 1996

Comments

Insecta Mundi, published by the Center for Systematic Entomology, is available online at http://centerforsystematicentomology.org/. Copyright © by Garrido and Gutierrez.

Abstract

Two new species of the genus Diastolinus are described for the island of Cuba, D. alfaroi and D. orientalis. After securing and comparing large series from the type localities of Diastolinus macamboensis and D. garciai, as well as from intermediate territories, we suggest, that these two taxa are indistinguishable; therefore we consider D. garciai as a junior synonym of D. macamboensis. In the private collection of the senior author are represented several new, undescribed populations.