Los Meloidae de Salta, Argentina (Coleoptera)

Authors

Antonio R. Martinez, Argentina

Document Type

Article

Date of this Version

March 1992

Comments

Published in Insecta Mundi Vol. 6, No. 1, March, 1992. Copyright © 1992 by Martinez.

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

Abstract

The following species of Meloidae are recorded, together with notes on adult seasonal distribution and food plants, from the northwestern Argentine province of Salta: Protomeloe wagneri, Spastica sphaerodera, Acrolytta colon, Pyrota homcioi, P. signata, P. vittigera, P. wagneri, Pseudopyrota riojanensis, Wagneronota aratae, Pseudomeloe andensis, P. gracilior, P. ogloblini, Epicauta atomaria, E. bruchi, E. excavata, E. floydwerneri, E. fourcadei, E. fulvicornis, E. grammica, E. griseonigra, E. leopardina, E. lizeri, E. monachica, E. nigripes Borchmann (=E. langei Borchmann, syn. nov.), E. pluvialis, E. rosiilloi, E. rubella, E. rutilifirons, E. talpa, E. tristis, E. zebra, Tetraonyx brunnescens, T. kirschi, T. lampyroides, T. propinquu, T. sericea, Cissites maculata, Nemognatha coeruleipennis, N. nigronotata, N. nigrotarsata, N. subparallela, N. weiseri Pic (st. nov.), Pseudozonitis impressithorax (Pic) (comb. nov.). Eleven of the species are recorded from the province for the first time.