Check List 14(1): 81-85, doi: 10.15560/.14.1.81
New records of epilachnine lady-beetles (Coleoptera, Coccinellidae, Coccinellinae) of Peru
Abdhiel A. Bustamante Navarrete‡, Anahí J. Oroz-Ramos‡, Araseli Elme-Tumpay‡, Edgar L. Marquina-Montesinos‡, Erick Yábar-Landa‡‡ Universidad Nacional San Antonio Abad del Cusco, Cusco, Peru
Corresponding author: Abdhiel A. Bustamante Navarrete ( abdhiel77@gmail.com ) Academic editor: Juan Pablo Botero Rodriguez © 2018 Abdhiel A. Bustamante Navarrete, Anahí J. Oroz-Ramos, Araseli Elme-Tumpay, Edgar L. Marquina-Montesinos, Erick Yábar-Landa. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Citation:
Bustamante-Navarrete AA, Oroz-Ramos AJ, Elme-Tumpay A, Marquina-Montesinos EL, Yábar-Landa E (2018) New records of epilachnine lady-beetles (Coleoptera, Coccinellidae, Coccinellinae) of Peru. Check List 14(1): 81-85. https://doi.org/10.15560/.14.1.81 |  |
Abstract
The phytophagous coccinellids Toxotoma guerini Gordon 1975 and Epilachna bistriguttata Mulsant 1850 are species previously known only from Bolivia and Ecuador. Here, they are reported for the first time in Peru, in the regions of Cusco and Puno. The female of both species, unknown until now, is described and illustrated. In addition, an updated distribution map of both species is presented.
Keywords
Epilachninae, Toxotoma, Epilachna, phytophagous, yungas, Neotropics, diversity