A peer-reviewed open-access journal ZooKeys 518:Checklist 87–127 (2015) of tortoise beetles (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Cassidinae) from Colombia... 87 doi: 10.3897/zookeys.518.9350 RESEARCH ARTICLE http://zookeys.pensoft.net Launched to accelerate biodiversity research Checklist of tortoise beetles (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Cassidinae) from Colombia with new data and description of a new species Lech Borowiec1, Jolanta Świętojańska1 1 Department of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Taxonomy, University of Wrocław, Przybyszewskiego 63/77, 51-148 Wrocław, Poland Corresponding author: Lech Borowiec (
[email protected]) Academic editor: C. Chaboo | Received 6 February 2015 | Accepted 13 August 2015 | Published 25 August 2015 http://zoobank.org/9CC9B00B-A497-4307-88F2-FDAD7B87A311 Citation: Borowiec L, Świętojańska J (2015) Checklist of tortoise beetles (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Cassidinae) from Colombia with new data and description of a new species. ZooKeys 518: 87–127. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.518.9350 Abstract A new tortoise beetle species, Cyrtonota abrili, is described from the Antioquia and Caldas departments in Colombia. New faunistic data are provided for 87 species, including 16 new additions to the country’s fauna. A checklist of the known 238 species of tortoise beetles recorded from Colombia is given. Keywords Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Cassidinae, Cyrtonota abrili, new faunistic data, checklist, Colombia Introduction Colombian tortoise beetles [Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Cassidinae, in the new sense excl. the tribes Cephaloleiini (= Imatidiini) and Spilophorini] (Borowiec 1995, Staines 2002, Sekerka 2014) are poorly known because most data are devoted to original de- scriptions of new taxa and no regional catalogues or checklists have been published (Borowiec and Świętojańska 2014b). Although 221 species were recorded from the country hitherto, most of them have been noted without precise location or even prov- ince name (Borowiec 1999).