First Record of the Genus<i>Chelobasis</i>Gray, 1832 (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae) in Mexico (North America)

García‐Robledo, Carlos; Kuprewicz, Erin K.; Bordignon, Leandra; Bahia, Thaise de Oliveira; Rodríguez-Morales, Dulce; Aguilar-Arguello, Samuel; Hernández-Lara, Carolina; Puga-Ayala, Lizeth; Angel-Piña, Christian Del; Abella-Medrano, Antonio; Martínez-Adriano, Cristian A.; Delgado-Carrillo, Oliverio; García-Conejo, Michele; León-Solano, Hector Javier; Navarrete-Jiménez, Alejandro; Bastidas-Martínez, Anaís; Martínez-Roldán, Hellen; Cuyos-Palacios, Margot; Salinas-Hijar, Irayda; Aguirre, Armando; Hernández‐Ortiz, Vicente

doi:10.1649/0010-065x-68.4.774

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“…Other significant contributions have focused on the states of Jalisco (Niño-Maldonado et al 2014b, Sandoval-Becerra et al 2015), Hidalgo (Martínez-Sánchez et al 2009, 2010), and Veracruz (Deloya and Ordóñez-Reséndiz 2008), and on the Sierra Tarahumara in Chihuahua (Furth 2009), as well as on country-wide studies of the tribe Alticini (Furth and Savini 1996, 1998, Furth 2006). To date, 2,174 species of Chrysomelidae are reported to be present in Mexico (Ordóñez-Reséndiz et al 2014), but the increasing numbers of studies have provided new distribution data, as well as species recorded for the first time in the country (Medvedev et al 2012, Moseyko et al 2013, García-Robledo et al 2014, López-Pérez et al 2015, Sánchez-Reyes et al 2015b). However, much of the faunistic information about the distribution and presence of the species in Mexico, including most recent compilations (i.e., Ordóñez-Reséndiz 2014, Niño-Maldonado et al 2016), are based principally on documents and studies published at least over 30 years ago (Jacoby 1880, 1881, 1882, 1883, 1884, 1885, 1886, 1887, 1888a, 1888b, 1889, 1890, 1891, 1892, Baly 1885, 1886, Champion 1893, 1894, Blackwelder 1946, Wilcox 1975, Moldenke 1970), and from collection localities cited in original descriptions of species.…”

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Faunistic patterns of leaf beetles (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae) within elevational and temporal gradients in Sierra de San Carlos, Mexico

Sánchez-Reyes

Niño-Maldonado

Barrientos-Lozano

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The study of biodiversity of Chrysomelidae in Mexico and its variation within ecological gradients has increased recently, although important areas in the country remain to be explored. We conducted a faunistic inventory and analyzed the elevational and temporal variation of leaf beetle communities in the Sierra de San Carlos, in the state of Tamaulipas, in northeastern Mexico. This is an area with high to extreme priority for conservation, and due to its insular geographical position and to the vegetational communities present, it must be considered as a sky island. We selected seven sample sites distributed in different elevations within three localities, and comprising different vegetational communities. At each site, we randomly delimited 12 sample plots of 400 m2 where sampling was conducted by entomological sweep netting and collecting directly by hand. Sampling was conducted monthly at each plot, for a total of 1,008 samples between February 2013 and January 2014. By the end of the study, we had obtained a total of 3,081 specimens belonging to six subfamilies, 65 genera, and 113 species, with Trichaltica scabricula (Crotch, 1873) being recorded for first time in Mexico. Species richness was less than the values observed at other studies conducted in the same region, which is attributed to differences in the number of plant species and to the insular location of Sierra de San Carlos; however, the higher diversity values suggest a higher quality of natural resources and vegetational communities. No consistent pattern of leaf beetle communities was correlated with elevation, although higher values of species richness and diversity were obtained at the highest elevation site. The seasonal gradient showed that the rainy season is most favorable for leaf beetle communities. We found that species composition was different between sites and months, and also that there exists a significant association between the abundance obtained at each site and particular months. These results highlight the importance of different microhabitats for species distribution, and suggest that each species of Chrysomelidae has a differential response to environmental factors that vary within the elevational gradient and according to seasons. Also, we confirm and emphasize the important status of Sierra de San Carlos as a key natural area for biological conservation.

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