Beetle fauna of the island of Tobago, Trinidad and Tobago, West Indies

Authors

Stewart B. Peck, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON K1S 5B6, Canada
Joyce Cook, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON K1S 5B6, Canada
Jerry D. Hardy Jr., National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC

Document Type

Article

Date of this Version

March 2002

Comments

Published in Insecta Mundi Vol. 16, No. 1-3, March-September, 2002. Copyright © 2002 Peck, Cook, and Hardy, Jr.
Insecta Mundi, published by the Center for Systematic Entomology, is available online at http://centerforsystematicentomology.org/.

Abstract

Tobago is a biologically rich but poorly investigated island. In this paper we report the occurrence of 672 species of beetles representing 69 families. Of these, only 95 had been previously reported from the island.