Revisão do gênero Oryssomus Mulsant (Coleoptera, Coccinellidae, Exoplectrinae, Oryssomini) e descrição de Gordonoryssomus, gen.n. A review of the genus Oryssomus Mulsant (Coleoptera, Coccinellidae, Exoplectrinae, Oryssomini) and description of Gordonoryssomus, gen.n.

<abstract language="eng">The Genus Oryssomus is revised and illustrations of pertinent characters are provided. A key to the genera of Oryssomini and to the species of Oryssomus and Gordonoryssomus are added. Gordonoryssomus. gen.n. is described: type species: Oryssomus deyrollei Crotch, 1874. A new species of Oryssomus, O. unimaculatus, sp.n.. from Amazonas, Brazil and three of Gordonoryssomus, G. nigrus, sp.n.. from Santa Cruz, Bolívia, G. nigripilosus. sp.n., from Espirito Santo, Brazil and G. delicatus, sp.n.. from Rio de Janeiro, Minas Gerais, Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, are described

Catálogo dos Erotylidae (Coleoptera) Neotropicais Catalogue of Neotropical Erotylidae (Coleoptera)

<abstract language="eng">The present catalog is an inventory of names proposed in Erotylidae (from family through subspecies) ocurring in the Neotropical Region, up to the present date (1988). It updates the nomenclature of included taxa, adds taxonomic units proposed after the Kuhnt's Genera Insectorum (Kuhnt, 1909) and includes abbreviated references to the literature, which are fully cited at the end of this catalogue. The systematic order follows Kuhnt, 1909, and afterwards, the position given to each taxa by the original author

A molecular phylogeny of the checkered beetles and a description of E

We provide the first molecular phylogeny of the clerid lineage (Coleoptera: Cleridae, Thanerocleridae) within the superfamily Cleroidea to examine the two most recently proposed hypotheses of higher level classification. Phylogenetic relationships of checkered beetles were inferred from approximately ∼5000nt of both nuclear and mitochondrial rDNA (28S, 16S and 12S) and the mitochondrial protein-coding gene COI. A worldwide sample of ∼70 genera representing almost a quarter of generic diversity of the clerid lineage was included and phylogenies were reconstructed using Bayesian and Maximum Likelihood approaches. Results support the monophyly of many proposed subfamilies but were not entirely congruent with either current classification system. The subfamilial relationships within the Cleridae are resolved with support for three main lineages. Tillinae are supported as the sister group to all other subfamilies within the Cleridae, whereas Thaneroclerinae, Korynetinae and a new subfamily formally described here, Epiclininae subf.n., form a sister group to Clerinae+Hydnocerinae. © 2013 The Royal Entomological Society