Check List 17(5): 1443-1449, doi: 10.15560/17.5.1443
Contribution to the knowledge of the beetle fauna (Insecta, Coleoptera) of Malta: new records of seven species with supporting DNA barcodes
Clare Marie Mifsud‡, Noel Vella‡, Adriana Vella‡‡ University of Malta, Msida, Malta
Corresponding author: Adriana Vella ( adriana.vella@um.edu.mt ) Academic editor: Pedro da Silva © Clare Marie Mifsud, Noel Vella, Adriana Vella. 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:
Mifsud CM, Vella N, Vella A (2021) Contribution to the knowledge of the beetle fauna (Insecta, Coleoptera) of Malta: new records of seven species with supporting DNA barcodes. Check List 17(5): 1443-1449. https://doi.org/10.15560/17.5.1443 |  |
Abstract
We report the presence of seven species of Coleoptera newly found on the Maltese Islands in the central Mediterranean. The first species records from the Maltese Islands include: Ancylopus melanocephalus (Olivier, 1808) (Endomychidae), Aplidia transversa (Fabricius, 1801) (Scarabaeidae), Cercyon quisquilius (Linnaeus, 1761) (Hydrophilidae), Hyperaspis duvergeri Fürsch, 1985 (Coccinellidae), Lebia cruxminor (Linnaeus, 1758) (Carabidae), Smicronyx pauperculus Wollaston, 1864 (Curculionidae), and Oxytelus sculptus Gravenhorst, 1806 (Staphylinidae). The morphological identification of each newly reported species was also confirmed through DNA barcoding.
Keywords
Carabidae, Coccinellidae, Curculionoidea, Endomychidae, Hydrophilidae, Scarabaeidae, Staphylinidae