The beetles of the island of St. Vincent, Lesser Antilles (Insecta: Coleoptera); diversity and distributions
Author
Peck, Stewart B.
text
Insecta Mundi
2010
2010-10-15
2010
144
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journal article
10.5281/zenodo.5352880
1942-1354
5352880
SUBFAMILY
LAMIINAE
TRIBE
APOMECYNINI
Adetus lherminieri
Fleutiaux and Sallé 1890: 468
;
Gahan 1895: 122
; Blackwelder 1944-1957: 597;
Villiers 1980d: 465
,
1980e: 543
,
1980f: 86
(
lectotype
);
Chalumeau and Touroult 2005a: 144
;
Touroult 2007: 8
. =
A
.
leewardensis
Breuning 1940: 38
of
St. Vincent
. =
A
.
grossepunctatus
Breuning 1940: 38
of
Grenada
and of Mustique.
Distribution.
Barbados
, Canouan,
Dominica
(subspecies
dominicensis
Breuning 1971: 307
),
Grenada
,
Guadeloupe
(type locality), Marie Galante,
Martinique
,
Montserrat
, Mustique, Petit
St. Vincent
,
St. Lucia, St. Kitts, St. Vincent, Union
; Lesser Antilles endemic.
Notes.
Host plants:
Coccoloba
,
Cordia
,
Gossypium
,
Hibiscus
,
Thespia
.
Bebelis picta
Pascoe 1875: 73
;
Chalumeau and Touroult 2005a: 149
. =
Dorcasta obtusa
Bates 1885: 372
,
Gahan 1895: 127
of
St. Vincent
. =
Bebelis lignosa
Thomson 1864: 110
;
Breuning 1971: 300
of
St. Vincent
.
Distribution.
Martinique,
St. Vincent
.
Mexico
,
Guatemala
, and
Brazil
; Lesser Antilles and Latin
America
. Probably not
Cuba
.
Tethystola mutica
Gahan 1895: 126
;
Chalumeau and Touroult 2005a: 146
,
2005b: 159
(
lectotype
).
Distribution.
Grenada
,
St. Vincent
.
Trinidad
; Lesser Antilles and Latin
America
.
TRIBE
ONCIDERINI
Hypsioma grisea
(Fleutiaux and Sallé) 1890: 469
(
Hypomia
);
Gahan 1895: 125
;
Villiers 1980d: 466
,
1980e: 549
,
1980f: 87
(
lectotype
) (
Tritania
);
Monné and Hovore 2005: 204
;
Chalumeau and Touroult 2005a: 154
;
Vitali and Touroult 2005: 72
(larva);
Dalens and Touroult 2007: 292
;
Touroult 2007: 8
. =
Hypsioma picticornis
Bates 1865: 111
;
Gahan 1895: 125
of
Grenada
.
Distribution.
Barbados
,
Dominica
,
Grenada
,
Guadeloupe
,
Martinique
,
St. Lucia, St. Vincent, Union
; Lesser Antilles endemic.
Notes.
Host trees:
Piscidia
,
Lonchocarpus
,
Mangifera
. In dry and moist zone forests.
Oncideres amputator
(Fabricius) 1792: 276
(
Lamia
); Fleutiaux and Sallé 1890: 470;
Gahan 1895: 125
;
Villiers 1980d: 466
,
1980e: 547
;
Chalumeau and Touroult 2005a: 151
;
Vitali and Touroult 2005: 74
(larva);
Touroult 2007: 8
.
Distribution.
Dominica
,
Grenada
,
Guadeloupe
,
Jamaica
, Les Saintes,
Martinique
,
St. Lucia, St. Vincent
; Lesser Antilles endemic.
Notes.
The female of this beetle lays its eggs in a small tree branch and then girdles the branch with its mandibles until the branch drops to the forest floor. The larva develops in the fallen branch. Host trees are: “bois doux” (
Inga
sp.
, with a diameter up to
20 mm
),
Coccoloba
,
Lonchocarpus
,
Diospyros
,
Acacia
,
Sloanea
,
Citrus
, etc. The people of
Dominica
and
St. Lucia
commonly and mistakenly think these fallen branches are the act of the large hercules beetle (
Dynastes hercules
(Linnaeus)
,
Scarabaeidae
), which supposedly grasps the branches between its two horns and flies in loops until the branch is cut.
TRIBE
PTEROPLIINI
Epectasis similis
Gahan 1895: 126
;
Villiers 1980d: 466
,
1980e: 552
,
1980f: 87
(
lectotype
);
Chemsak et al. 1992: 118
;
Chalumeau and Touroult 2005a: 160
.
Distribution.
Dominica
,
Grenada
(type locality),
Guadeloupe
,
Montserrat
,
St. Vincent
; Lesser Antilles endemic.
Notes.
Host trees:
Mangifera
and
Sloanea
. In wet zone forests.
TRIBE
DESMIPHORINI
Desmiphora hirticollis
(Olivier) 1795: 11
(
Saperda
);
Gahan 1895: 122
;
Micheli and Hovore 2003: 3
;
Chalumeau and Touroult 2005a: 165
;
Touroult 2007: 8
.
Distribution.
Barbados
,
Cuba
, Curaçao,
Grenada
, Guadeloupe, Puerto Rico,
St. Lucia, St. Vincent, Union. SW
USA
, Mexico to
Venezuela
, to Argentina; Galapagos; widespread New World.
TRIBE
ACANTHOCININI
Amniscus similis
(Gahan) 1895: 136
(
Leptostylus
);
Gahan 1895: 136
;
Villiers 1980d: 466
,
1980e: 572
,
1980f: 91
(
lectotype
) (
Leptostyloides
);
Chalumeau and Touroult 2005a: 178
;
Vitali and Touroult 2006: 5
(larva);
Touroult 2007:11
. =
Leptostylus bidentatus
in part; Fleutiaux and Sallé 1890: 471 of Guadeloupe;
Gahan 1895: 136
. =
Leptostyloides turbidus
Gilmour 1963: 63
of
St. Eustatius
. =
Paratrypanidius antiguae
Gilmour 1963: 15
of
Antigua
.
=
Leptostylopsis testaceus
(Froelich) 1792: 141
(
Leptostylus
);
Gilmour 1963: 59
. Literature records of
Leptostylopsis testaceus
(Froelich) 1792: 141
for
Dominica
(
Woodruff et al. 1998: 16
, as
Leptostylus
) may be
Amniscus
(=
Leptostyloides
)
similis
Gahan (
Chalumeau and Touroult 2005a: 199
)
.
Distribution.
Antigua
,
Barbados
,
Bermuda
, Désirade,
Dominica
,
Grenada
(type locality), Guadeloupe, Guana, Iles des Saintes, Marie Galante, Martinique,
Puerto Rico
, Saba, St. Croix,
St.
Eustatius
, St. Lucia, St. Vincent,
Tortola
,
Virgin Gorda
.
Mexico
,
Trinidad
; widespread Antilles and Latin
America
.
Notes.
Host trees:
Tabebuia
,
Delonix
,
Hippomane
,
Mangifera
,
Artocarpus, Cecropia, Clusia
.
Lagocheirus araneiformis
(Linnaeus) 1767: 625
(
Cerambyx
); Fleutiaux and Sallé 1890: 471;
Gahan 1895: 130
;
Gilmour 1963: 58
;
Villiers 1980d: 465
,
1980e: 564
;
Chalumeau 1983
b: 223;
Bennett and Alam 1985: 28
;
Chalumeau and Touroult 2005a: 213
;
Valentine and Ivie 2005: 280
;
Touroult 2007:12
;
Turnbow and Thomas 2008: 20
.
Distribution.
Antigua
,
Bahamas
,
Barbados
, Bequia,
Cuba
,
Dominica
, Grand Cayman, Guana,
Grenada
, Guadeloupe, Hispaniola,
Jamaica
, Martinique, Mustique, St. Croix,
St. Lucia, St. Thomas, St. Vincent, Union.
The subspecies
L. a
.
guadeloupensis
Dillon 1957: 150
is reported in
Puerto Rico
,
St. Barthélémy
, Guadeloupe,
St.
Eustatius
, St. Martin; St. John. The subspecies
L. a
.
insulorum
Dillon 1957: 150
is distributed on various other islands of the Lesser Antilles. Five other subspecies are elsewhere in the West Indies (
Aruba
,
Bonaire
,
Curaçao
),
USA
(FL),
Mexico
to
Panama
, and northern South
America
; widespread New World. Introduced to Tahiti and Hawaii.
Notes.
Polyphagous on many tree genera, especially in dry zones. The emergence holes of adult beetles from the tree are through large, conspicuous, circular “trap-doors” cut through the bark of the host tree, which are sometimes still attached to the tree. The holes under the bark are feeding chambers and pupation takes place deeper in the tree.
Leptostylopsis smithi
(Gahan) 1895: 132
(
Leptostylus
);
Gilmour 1963: 59
;
Villiers 1980f: 92
(
lectotype
);
Chalumeau 1983
b: 226;
Chalumeau and Touroult 2005a: 201
.
Distribution.
Bequia, Mustique,
Grenada
,
St. Vincent
, Union; Lesser Antilles endemic.
Nealcidion socium
(Gahan) 1895: 131
(
Alcidion
);
Villiers 1980e: 567
,
1980f: 89
(
lectotype
);
Chalumeau and Touroult 2005a: 211
.
Distribution.
Grenada
,
St. Vincent
(type locality).
Trinidad
,
Venezuela
; Lesser Antilles and Latin
America
.
Styloleptus posticalis
(Gahan) 1895: 133
(
Leptostylus
);
Villiers 1980d: 467
,
1980e: 573
,
1980f: 93
(
lectotype
);
Chalumeau 1983
b: 228, 229;
Chalumeau and Touroult 2005a: 204
;
Touroult 2007: 11
, 12. =
Styloleptus inermis
Fabricius 1801: 293
, Fleutiaux and Sallé 1890: 472 of
Guadeloupe
.
=
Styloleptus albosuturalis
Villiers 1980c: 467
,
1980f: 93
;
Chalumeau 1983
b: 230;
Chemsak et al. 1992: 146
;
Monné and Hovore 2005: 271
;
Chalumeau and Touroult 2004: 194
(synonymy). =S.
bonfilsi
Villiers 1980e: 575
,
1980f: 93
of
Guadeloupe
;
Chalumeau 1983
b: 229 as subspecies;
Chalumeau and Touroult 2004: 194
(synonymy).
=
Leptostylopsis posticalis
(Gahan)
;
Gilmour 1963: 59
.
Distribution.
Barbados
,
Bermuda
(introduced),
Dominica
,
Grenada
,
Guadeloupe
, Marie Galante,
Martinique
,
Montserrat
,
St. Barthélémy
,
St. Lucia, St. Vincent
; Lesser Antilles endemic. The nominate subspecies is limited to
Grenada
and
St. Vincent
.
Notes.
Polyphagous on many tree genera.
Tithonius luneli
Chalumeau and Touroult 2005a: 185
.
Distribution.
St. Vincent
; single island endemic.
Urgleptes gahani
Chalumeau 1983
b: 234
;
Chalumeau and Touroult 2005a: 191
.
Distribution.
St. Vincent
; single island endemic.
Urgleptes guadeloupensis
(Fleutiaux and Sallé) 1890: 472
(
Lepturges
);
Gahan 1895: 136
;
Ramos 1946: 42
;
Villiers 1980d: 467
,
1980e: 579
,
1980f: 94
(
lectotype
);
Chalumeau 1983
b: 233;
Chalumeau and Touroult 2005a: 190
;
Touroult 2007: 11
, 12;
Turnbow and Thomas 2008: 22
.
Distribution.
Bahamas
,
Barbados
,
Cuba
,
Curaçao
,
Dominica
,
Grenada
,
Guadeloupe
, Hispaniola, Les Saintes,
Martinique
, Mona,
Montserrat
, Mustique,?
Puerto Rico
, St. Croix,
St. Lucia, St. Vincent
; widespread Antilles endemic.
Notes.
Polyphagous on many tree genera.
TRIBE
CYRTININI
Decarthria stephensi
Hope 1834: 16
;
Gahan 1895: 138
;
Villiers 1980e: 589
;
Chalumeau and Touroult 2005a: 219
.
Distribution.
Guadeloupe
,
St. Vincent
(
type
locality); Lesser Antilles endemic.
Notes.
Develops in branches of
Ficus
,
Rhizophora
,
Coccoloba
.