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FEM Ns3(3) 2017.Pdf (nueva serie) ( ) Armando Equihua, Editor General Academia Entomológica de México A. C., Producción y Finanzas Agustín Aragón García Enrique Ruiz Cancino Juan Manuel Vanegas Rico Alfonso Pescador Rubio Haidel Vargas Madriz Juana María Coronado Blanco Edith G. Estrada Venegas Jesús Alberto Acuña Soto M. Patricia Chaires Grijalva Enrique González Soriano Jesús Romero Nápoles Oscar Federico Francke Ballvé Consejo Editorial Internacional: María E. Casanueva Andrés O. Angulo Roy A. Norton Juli Pujade Villar Thomas H. Atkinson Foto de la portada: Edgar Salto Farfán® Bombylius sp. (Diptera: Bombyllidae) http://www.folia.socmexent.org/ [email protected] Dirección: Carretera México Texcoco Km 36.5, Montecillos Texcoco Estado de México C.P. 56230 Folia Entomológica Mexicana (nueva serie). Volumen 3, Número. 3, septiembre-diciembre 2017. Es una publicación cuatrimestral, editada por la Academia Entomológica de Jesús Alberto Acuña Soto México A. 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Queda estrictamente prohibida la reproducción total o parcial de los Javier Ponce Saavedra contenidos e imágenes de la publicación sin previa autorización de la Vocal de Publicaciones Academia Entomológica de México A. C. Valeria Isabel Sánchez Cuellar El logo y la frase Sociedad Mexicana de Entomología®, son marcas Vocal de Publicaciones Electrónicas registradas cualquier uso sin autorización será motivo de acción legal. ISNN 2448-4776 FOLIA ENTOMOLÓGICA MEXICANA (nueva serie) Desde 1961 Revista especializada de la Sociedad Mexicana de Entomología®, publicada a través de la Academia Entomológica de México A. C. http://www.folia.socmexent.org/ FOLIA ENTOMOLÓGICA MEXICANA (NUEVA SERIE) 3(3) 2017 CONTENIDO ARTÍCULOS DE INVESTIGACIÓN ORIGINAL Ecología y Comportamiento Uzbekia González-Coronado, Gino Juárez-Noé y Claudia Ruíz-González. Coleópteros (Insecta: Coleoptera) del Campus de la Universidad Nacional de Piura, Perú. (Beetles (Insecta: Coleoptera) of the campus the National University of Piura, Peru) …...…................................. 95−105 Sistemática y Morfología Irene Lobato-Vila, Sara Fernández-Garzón, M. Catalina Reina-Rojas, Mailyn A. González and Juli Pujade-Villar. Synergus pedroi n. sp. from Colombia (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Synergini). (Synergus pedroi n. sp. de Colombia (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Synergini)) ....................................................... 106−113 ARTÍCULOS DE REVISIÓN Entomología Médica y Forense Raúl Noguez-Moreno, Ildefonso Fernández-Salas, Jorge Cime-Castillo, Enrique Merino-Pérez, Renaud Conde, Salome Cabrera-Romo y Humberto Lanz-Mendoza. Nuevas estrategias de control vectorial: mosquitos transgénicos. (New strategies of vector control: Genetically modified mosquitoes) .................................................................... 114−138 Uzbekia González-Coronado Gino Juárez-Noé Claudia Ruíz-González Escuela Profesional de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Nacional de Piura, Perú. [email protected] Campus Universitario, Urb. Miraflores s/n, Castilla-Piura Apartado Postal 295. Región Piura, Perú. Folia Entomológica Mexicana (nueva serie), 3(3): 95−105, 2017. Recibido: 8 de agosto 2017 Aceptado: 16 de diciembre 2017 Publicado en línea: 31 de diciembre 2017 ISSN: 2448-4768 COLEÓPTEROS (INSECTA: COLEOPTERA) DEL CAMPUS DE LA UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE PIURA, PERÚ Beetles (Insecta: Coleoptera) of the campus the National University of Piura, Peru Uzbekia González-Coronado, Gino Juárez-Noé y Claudia Ruíz-González. Escuela Profesional de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Nacional de Piura, Región Piura, Perú. *Autor de correspondencia: [email protected] RESUMEN. El objetivo del siguiente trabajo fue el de determinar el número de especies de coleópteros presentes en el campus de la Universidad Nacional de Piura, en la región Piura, Perú, se realizaron recolectas entre agosto de 2016 y abril de 2017. Se registraron 136 especies, agrupadas en 117 géneros, 27 familias y dos subórdenes. Las familias Coccinellidae, Tenebrionidae, Carabidae, Scarabaeidae, Chrysomelidae y Cerambycidae agruparon la mayor cantidad de especies. Photinus baeri (Oliver) y Merocnemus binotatus Boheman son citadas por primera vez para Perú, así como los géneros Cymatodera Gray y Phyllobaenus Dejean, ambos con especies aún no descritas. Además, se añade un nuevo dato distribucional regional para Mecopelidnota marxi Soula y Grammopsoides tenuicornis (Casey). Los resultados muestran que el campus contiene un alto número de especies de coleópteros y que la presencia de nuevos registros, ampliaciones de distribución y especies aún no descritas resaltan la importancia que tiene este sitio en los estudios de coleopterofauna en Perú. Palabras clave: Bosques estacionalmente secos, distribución, nuevos registros, región Piura. ABSTRACT. The objective of the following work was determining the number of coleopteran species present campus of the National University of Piura, Piura region, Peru, collections were made between August 2016 to April 2017. It registered 136 species, grouped in 117 genera, 27 families and two suborders. The families Coccinellidae, Tenebrionidae, Carabidae, Scarabaeidae, Chrysomelidae and Cerambycidae group the largest number of species. Photinus baeri Oliver and Merocnemus binotatus Boheman are cited first time from Peru, as well as genera Cymatodera Gray and Phyllobaenus Dejean, both with undescribed species. Also, a new regional distributional data is added for Mecopelidnota marxi Soula y Grammopsoides tenuicornis (Casey). The results show that campus of National University of Piura contains a great number of coleopteran species and that the presence of new records, range extensions and undescribed species highlight the importance of this site in coleopterofauna studies in Peru. Key words: Seasonally dry forests, distribution, new records, Piura region. INTRODUCCIÓN cercana a la línea ecuatorial, heterogeneidad del relieve e interacciones marino-atmosféricas, Dentro de la entomofauna mundial, además presenta dos cadenas montañosas: los Coleoptera constituye el más rico y variado Amotapes y los Andes, los cuales condicionan orden de la clase Insecta, con aproximadamente los diversos paisajes ecológicos que posee (More 400,000 especies dentro de cuatro subórdenes, et al., 2014). 211 familias y 1,663 tribus (Bouchard et al., Uno de estos paisajes son los bosques 2011; Grimmelikhuijzen y Huaser, 2012). En la estacionalmente secos que cubren aproximadamente región neotropical está constituido por el 73 % de la superficie territorial de la región y aproximadamente 72,500 especies, 6,700 géneros dentro de los cuales destacan los algarrobales, y 127 familias (Costa, 2000), mientras que en formaciones vegetales dominadas por Prosopis Perú está constituida por 99 familias y 10,000 pallida (Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd.) Kunth especies (Chaboo, 2015). (Fabaceae), distribuidas desde las planicies Piura es una región singular por su geografía costeras hasta los 400 metros de altitud y biodiversidad, como resultado de la interacción aproximadamente (La Torre-Cuadros y Linares, de factores ambientales, geológicos, ubicación 2008). 95 González-Coronado et al.: Coleópteros del Campus de la Universidad Nacional de Piura, Perú. Dentro de los estudios del orden Coleoptera en Además, constituye una de las principales áreas la región de Piura destacan los de Juárez (2014), boscosas dentro del casco urbano de la ciudad de Juárez et al. (2015, 2016), Juárez y González Piura, ya que alberga fauna característica de los (2015a, 2015b, 2016a, 2016b, 2016c, 2016d, bosques secos (Chávez-Villavicencio, 2013). 2016e, 2016f, 2017), González y Juárez (2016, Método de muestreo. Las recolectas se 2017), Mendoza y Juárez (2017) quienes realizaron mensualmente desde agosto de 2016 elaboraron listados de especies y citaron nuevos hasta abril de 2017 y se efectuaron las primeras registros para Perú. tres semanas de cada mes con una duración de El campus de la Universidad Nacional de Piura cinco días por semana (15 días efectivos de constituye una de las zonas verdes más extensas recolecta por mes) en horarios diurnos y e importantes dentro de la ciudad de Piura, el nocturnos empleando tres métodos de captura: 1) cual al estar compuesto por áreas de uso urbano recolecta manual, con el cual se capturaron con abundante vegetación y estar ubicado dentro directamente los coleópteros que fueron de la zona biogeográfica de bosque seco descubiertos en su hábitat (Morón, 2004), además ecuatorial (Chávez-Villavicencio, 2013) representa de capturas en suelo y recolectas directas sobre la un sitio interesante para estudiar la comunidad de vegetación, sobre y bajo hojarasca, dentro y insectos presentes. En este campus el conocimiento debajo de
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