Ceratocanthinae

Ballerio, Alberto, Gill, Bruce D. & Grebennikov, Vasily V., 2011, Illustrated overview and identification key to Cameroonian Ceratocanthinae beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea: Hybosoridae) with description of four new species, Zootaxa 2892, pp. 1-24 : 23

Single site Ceratocanthinae diversity

Single-site diversity of Ceratocanthinae beetles has been addressed in four earlier publications. Howden & Gill (2003) listed eight species of Astaenomoechus Martínez & Pereira, 1959 from a single site in Nicaragua. Ballerio and Wagner (2005) listed five species collected with the canopy fogging technique in Budongo forest, Uganda. Erwin et al. (2005) referred to 11 unidentified morphospecies fogged from canopy in Yasuni National Park, Ecuador. Most recently Ballerio and Maruyama (2010) reported the remarkably high number of 18 Ceratocanthinae species discovered in a single site of Ulu Gombak in Selangor, West Malaysia, with the majority of them hand picked from termite nests and all 18 species capable of flight. Our sampling at Bakingili and on Mt. Kupé in Cameroon furnished us with seven and six Ceratocanthinae species, respectively, thus being the fourth and fifth most diverse single sites presently known. We should mention that we were sampling in both sites for only about two days and, therefore, the real Ceratocanthinae diversity of these sites is far from being adequately known.