Arthropods of Florida and Neighboring Land Areas Volume 18 A Checklist of the Beetles of Cuba with Data on Distributions and Bionomics (Insecta: Coleoptera) Stewart B. Peck Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services Charles H. Bronson, Commissioner Division of Plant Industry Richard Gaskalla, Director P.O. Box 147100 Gainesville, FL 32614-7100 Arthropods of Florida and Neighboring Land Areas Volume 18 A Checklist of the Beetles of Cuba with Data on Distributions and Bionomics (Insecta: Coleoptera) Stewart B. Peck Department of Biology 1125 Colonel By Drive Carleton University, Ottawa, K1S 5B6, Canada Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services Charles H. Bronson, Commissioner Division of Plant Industry Richard Gaskalla, Director P.O. Box 147100 Gainesville, FL 32614-7100 Fernando de Zayas (1912-1983), Entomologist, Cuban Academy of Sciences Table of Contents Abstract ....................................................................................................................................................... Introduction ................................................................................................................................................. Summary of the history of Cuban beetle studies ........................................................................................ Construction of a checklist of Cuban beetles ............................................................................................... Summary and origins of the beetle fauna of Cuba ...................................................................................... Annotated list of the beetles (Coleoptera) of Cuba* ..................................................................................... Suborder Archostemata 4. Micromalthidae .............................................................................................................................. Suborder Adephaga 9. Rhysodidae ..................................................................................................................................... 10. Carabidae (+Cicindelinae) ............................................................................................................ 11. Gyrinidae...................................................................................................................................... 12. Haliplidae ..................................................................................................................................... 14. Noteridae ...................................................................................................................................... 17. Dytiscidae ..................................................................................................................................... Suborder Polyphaga Series Staphyliniformia Superfamily Hydrophiloidea 18. Hydrophilidae ............................................................................................................................... 21. Histeridae ..................................................................................................................................... Superfamily Staphylinoidea 22. Hydraenidae ................................................................................................................................. 23. Ptiliidae ........................................................................................................................................ 25. Leiodidae ...................................................................................................................................... 26. Scydmaenidae ............................................................................................................................... 28. Staphylinidae (+ Scaphidiinae and Pselaphinae) ......................................................................... Series Scarabaeiformia Superfamily Scarabaeoidea 31. Passalidae .................................................................................................................................... 33. Trogidae ....................................................................................................................................... 35. Geotrupidae .................................................................................................................................. 37. Ochodaeidae.................................................................................................................................. 38. Hybosoridae .................................................................................................................................. 39. Ceratocanthidae ........................................................................................................................... 41. Scarabaeidae ................................................................................................................................ Series Elateriformia Superfamily Scirtoidea 47. Scirtidae ....................................................................................................................................... Superfamily Buprestoidea 51. Buprestidae .................................................................................................................................. Superfamily Byrrhoidea 53. Elmidae ........................................................................................................................................ 54. Dryopidae ..................................................................................................................................... 55. Lutrochidae .................................................................................................................................. 56. Limnichidae ................................................................................................................................. 57. Heteroceridae ............................................................................................................................... 58. Psephenidae.................................................................................................................................. 60. Ptilodactylidae .............................................................................................................................. 61. Chelonariidae ............................................................................................................................... * Families known to be present in Cuba, numbered following the world list of beetle families in Arnett and Thomas (2000). Superfamily Elateroidea 67. Eucnemidae .................................................................................................................................. 69. Elateridae ..................................................................................................................................... 73. Lycidae ......................................................................................................................................... 76. Lampyridae .................................................................................................................................. 78. Cantharidae.................................................................................................................................. Series Bostrichiformia Superfamily Bostrichoidea 81. Nosodendridae .............................................................................................................................. 82. Dermestidae ................................................................................................................................. 83. Bostrichidae (+Lyctinae) .............................................................................................................. 84. Anobiidae (+Ptininae)................................................................................................................... Series Cucujiformia Superfamily Lymexyloidea 85. Lymexylidae ................................................................................................................................. Superfamily Cleroidea 87. Trogossitidae ................................................................................................................................ 89. Cleridae ........................................................................................................................................ 93. Melyridae (+Malachiinae) ............................................................................................................ Superfamily Cucujoidea 95. Sphindidae .................................................................................................................................... 97. Nitidulidae ................................................................................................................................... 98. Smicripidae .................................................................................................................................. 99. Monotomidae (+Rhizophaginae) ................................................................................................... 103. Silvanidae ................................................................................................................................... 104. Passandridae .............................................................................................................................