Biodiversity of the Gulf of Guinea Oceanic Islands 2022
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-06153-0_12
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The Beetles (Coleoptera) of Príncipe, São Tomé and Annobón

Abstract: The known beetle fauna of Príncipe, São Tomé, and Annobón amounts to 403 species and subspecies, of which 190 (47%) are endemic. The most diverse families of beetles are the Cerambycidae (61 species), the Tenebrionidae (57 species), the Carabidae (45 species), the Scarabaeidae (34 species), and the Coccinellidae (31 species). Most records come from São Tomé, with 297 species. In comparison, Príncipe, with 151 recorded species, and especially Annobón, with 16 recorded species, still require extensive faunistic … Show more

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“…The presence of sympatric congeneric endemic species in an archipelago indicates the groups where molecular-based studies are needed, as such species could be the result of any of the speciation modes. There are several such instances in the Gulf of Guinea oceanic islands that have not yet been investigated with molecular data including among several groups of plants (Garcia and Shevock 2022;Stévart et al 2022), mollusks (Panisi et al 2022), mushrooms (Desjardin and Perry 2022), arachnids (Crews and Esposito 2022), and insects Mendes and Bivarde-Sousa 2022; Nève et al 2022). An important limitation of molecular studies, however, is that they cannot account for the possibility that undetected extinctions have removed the true sister species of extant species.…”
Section: Box 61 Speciation On Oceanic Islandsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The presence of sympatric congeneric endemic species in an archipelago indicates the groups where molecular-based studies are needed, as such species could be the result of any of the speciation modes. There are several such instances in the Gulf of Guinea oceanic islands that have not yet been investigated with molecular data including among several groups of plants (Garcia and Shevock 2022;Stévart et al 2022), mollusks (Panisi et al 2022), mushrooms (Desjardin and Perry 2022), arachnids (Crews and Esposito 2022), and insects Mendes and Bivarde-Sousa 2022; Nève et al 2022). An important limitation of molecular studies, however, is that they cannot account for the possibility that undetected extinctions have removed the true sister species of extant species.…”
Section: Box 61 Speciation On Oceanic Islandsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…For other vertebrate groups such as mammals ( Rainho et al 2022 ) and fishes ( da Costa et al 2022 ), the rapid assembly of a complete and trustworthy country-wide DNA barcoding library is made difficult by the considerable number of taxonomic uncertainties plaguing some of its species complexes, too large numbers of occurring taxa, and few readily available samples. This situation is even more striking for the case of invertebrates for which the available taxonomic data and for which more fieldwork, collection of new vouchers, and detailed taxonomic revisions are urgently needed ( Bell et al 2022b ; Crews and Esposito 2022 ; Dijkstra et al 2022 ; Mendes and Bivar-de-Sousa 2022 ; Nève et al 2022 ; Panisi et al 2022 ). As noted by Edward O.…”
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confidence: 99%
“…Chapter 11 (Crews and Esposito 2022) explores the diverse and little-known arachnid fauna of São Tomé and Príncipe, which includes 266 recorded species of six different orders. Chapter 12 (Nève et al 2022) provides a first checklist for the beetles of the three oceanic islands, listing 403 species, of which 190 are endemic. The butterflies and skippers (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea) are reviewed in Chap.…”
Section: Book Structurementioning
confidence: 99%