“…Many legumes are associated with bruchine beetles (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Bruchinae) that have diversified from an endophagous group of chrysomelids (Farrell, 1998;Gómez-Zurita & al., 2008). Food webs of the legume-bruchine system have been studied in various geographic areas (Johnson, 1981a;Udayagiri & Wadhi, 1989;Kergoat & al., 2007a); Asia (Chujo, 1937;Arora, 1977;Tuda & al., 2005Tuda & al., , 2006, the Middle East (Johnson & al., 2004), Europe (Hoffmann, 1945;Jermy & Szentesi, 2003;Delobel & Delobel, 2006;Kergoat & al., 2007b), Africa (Johnson & al., 2004;Kergoat & al., 2005), Russia (Luk'yanovich & Ter-Minasyan, 1957) and the New World (North and Central America, Johnson, 1970Johnson, , 1983Kingsolver, 2004;Kato & al., 2010;South America, Johnson, 1990). Native bruchines are absent in arctic areas and Pacific islands and scarce in Australia (Borowiec, 1987).…”