MEMOIRS ON BIODIVERSITY I Biodiversity of South America. I Pier Mauro GIACHINO Editor Verona - 2008 Memoirs on Biodiversity, volume I, 2008 ISSN 1971-1557 CONTENTS ISBN 978-88-902816-0-0 © World Biodiversity Association onlus, Verona, Italy http://www.biodiversityassociation.org E-mail: [email protected] Phone: +39 3409165855 Post address: World Biodiversity Association onlus, c/o Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Lungadige Porta Vittoria 9, I-37129 Verona, Italia All rights reserved; reproduction prohibited without permission of the copyright owner Scientific/Editorial Board The Chairman of WBA onlus . 5 The Head of the Corpo Forestale dello Stato . 7 ACHILLE CASALE,SASSARI (Italy) The Editor . 9 OLIMPIA COPPELLOTTI,PADOVA (Italy) MAURO DACCORDI,VERONA (Italy) PROAÑO CASTRO A. C., ROSSI W. PIER MAURO GIACHINO,TORINO (Italy) New records of Laboulbeniales (Fungi, Ascomycota) from Ecuador . 11 LAURA GUIDOLIN,PADOVA (Italy) GIOVANNI ONORE,QUITO (Ecuador) BATTISTON R., PICCIAU L. GIUSEPPE B. OSELLA,L’AQUILA (Italy) Contribution to the knowledge of the Mantodea of Ecuador with the description of JOSÉ MA.SALGADO COSTAS,LÉON (Spain) the male of Pseudoxyops perpulchra (Westwood, 1889). (Mantodea Mantidae MAURO TRETIACH,TRIESTE (Italy) Stagmatopterinae) . 19 Editor-in-chief: Dr. Pier Mauro Giachino BATTISTON R., PICCIAU L. First report of the praying mantis genus Musoniella Giglio-Tos, 1916 from Ecuador Managing editor: Dr. Gianfranco Caoduro with the description of a new species. (Mantodea Thespidae Thespinae) . 31 BUZZETTI F. M., C AROTTI G. Annotated list of the Caelifera of Ecuador (Insecta: Orthoptera) . 39 This work may be cited as: VIGNA TAGLIANTI A. A new species of Esphalmenus from the Great Andes of the Ecuador (Dermaptera, 67 Giachino P. M. (ed.), 2008. Biodiversity of South America I. Memoirs on Biodiversity, World Biodiversity Pygidicranidae) . Association onlus, Verona, 1, 496 pp. Individual contributions may be cited as follows: VIGNA TAGLIANTI A., TOLEDANO L. Proaño Castro A. C., Rossi W., 2008. New records of Laboulbeniales (Fungi, Ascomycota) from Ecuador. pp. Bembidion (Ecuadion) agonoides n.sp. from Ecuador (Coleoptera, Carabidae, 77 11-18. In: Giachino P. M. (ed.), 2008. Biodiversity of South America I. Memoirs on Biodiversity, World Bembidiina) . Biodiversity Association onlus, Verona, 1, 496 pp. TOLEDANO L. Systematic notes on the Bembidiina of the Northern Andes with particular reference Maker-up: Luciano Vinco (E-mail: [email protected]) to the fauna of Ecuador. (Coleoptera, Carabidae) . 81 Cover graphic: Alberto Cafaro (E-mail: [email protected]) ALLEGRO G., GIACHINO P. M . , S CIAKY R. Front cover and back cover: the montane cloudforest Otonga (Cotopaxi Province - Ecuador). Photo by G. Notes on some Trechini (Coleoptera Carabidae) of South America with description of Caoduro new species from Chile, Ecuador and Peru . 131 CASALE A. Printed in Italy Responsible Director: Simone Bellini The genus Calleida Dejean 1825 in Ecuador (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Lebiini), with Authorization n. 116753 08/06/2006 eight new species . 173 GIACHINO P. M . , M ORET P. , P ICCIAU L. Printed on ecological paper, totally Chlorine-free A new microphthalmous species of Perigona Castelnau 1835 from Ecuador Impreso sobre papel ecologico, totalmente libre de Cloro (Coleoptera Carabidae) . 195 3 Biodiversity of South America, I. Memoirs on Biodiversity, 1 (2008): 11-18 World Biodiversity Association onlus, Verona, Italy. ISSN 1971-1557 ISBN 978-88-902816-0-0 New records of Laboulbeniales (Fungi, Ascomycota) from Ecuador A. Carolina Proaño Castro* - Walter Rossi** *Museo QCAZ, Sección Entomología, Escuela de Ciencias Biológicas, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Quito (Ecuador). **Dipartimento Scienze Ambientali, Università dell’Aquila, 67100 Coppito (AQ) (Italia). Abstract are added to this short list. Furthermore, we take the Therteen species of the Laboulbeniales are reported opportunity for reporting new findings of these same for the first time in Ecuador. These are: Dimeromyces species from Bolivia, Brazil, Kenya and South Africa, nanomasculus Thaxter, Hesperomyces coccinelloides which makes it possible to define more accurately (Thaxter) Thaxter, Laboulbenia bruchii (Spegazzini) the distribution of these parasites. MORET P. Thaxter, L. cristata Thaxter, L. funeralis Thaxter, L. Many more Laboulbeniales are to be found in Four new species of Diploharpus Chaudoir 1850 from Ecuador (Coleoptera, latonae Thaxter, L. metrionae Balazuc, L. philonthi Ecuador, as evidenced by field research carried out Carabidae, Perigonini) . 201 Thaxter, L. schizogenii Thaxter, Mimeomyces latonae by the authors in recent years, which is still in pro- (Thaxter) Thaxter, Monoicomyces invisibilis Thaxter, gress. On the other hand, the very high biodiversity Salgado J. Mª Rhachomyces longissimus (Thaxter) Thaxter, R. philon- which characterizes Ecuador makes it obvious that Contribution to the knowledge of the biodiversity of Ecuador: new genus, new species thinus Thaxter. The records of Dimeromyces nanoma- the number of Laboubeniales in the country will likely include several hundred species. and new records (Coleoptera, Leiodidae, Cholevinae) . 209 sculus, Hesperomyces coccinelloides, Laboulbenia schizo- genii and Rhachomyces philonthinus represent the first records for South America. New records from Materials and Methods PACE R. Bolivia, Brazil, French Guyana, Jamaica, Kenya and Most insects were collected in the field by the authors New records of Aleocharinae from Ecuador and Peru, with the description of new spe- South Africa are also reported. using standard entomological techniques. Insects cies, new subgenera and new genera (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae) . 225 were stored in 75% ethyl alcohol for transport to the Key words: Coleoptera, parasitic fungi laboratory, where they were carefully examined with ONORE G., BARTOLOZZI L. a dissecting microscope. The parasitic fungi were Description of the larvae of Sphaenognathus (Chiasognathinus) gaujoni (Oberthür, Resumen removed from the hosts by means of an entomological 1885) and S. (C.) xerophilus Bartolozzi & Onore, 2006 (Coleoptera: Lucanidae), with Trece especies de Laboulbeniales son por primera pin (# 3) and mounted on permanent slides following observations about their altitudinal range extension . 399 vez reportadas para el Ecuador. Estas son: the techniques described in Benjamin (1971). Slides Dimeromyces nanomasculus Thaxter, Hesperomyces coc- of the recorded species are deposited in the Museo de BALLERIO A., GILL B. D. cinelloides (Thaxter) Thaxter, Laboulbenia bruchii la Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, sec- Notes on some Germarostes s.str. Paulian, 1982 from the cloud forests of Ecuadorian (Spegazzini) Thaxter, L. cristata Thaxter, L. funeralis ción Micología (QCA), in the Museo de Ciencias Andes with remarks on allied Ceratocanthinae genera (Coleoptera Scarabaeoidea Thaxter, L. latonae Thaxter, L. metrionae Balazuc, L. Naturales, Herbario Nacional (QCNE) and in the col- philonthi Thaxter, L. schizogenii Thaxter, Mimeomyces lection of the senior author, which will be deposited in Hybosoridae) . 407 latonae (Thaxter) Thaxter, Monoicomyces invisibilis the Botanical Museum in Florence (FI). Thaxter, Rhachomyces longissimus (Thaxter) Thaxter, DACCORDI M. R. philonthinus Thaxter. Los registros de Dimeromyces The species of Elytromena Motschulsky 1860, with observations on Elytrosphaera nanomasculus, Hesperomyces coccinelloides, L. schizoge- Results Chevrolat 1836 and related genera. (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Chrysomelinae) . 417 nii y Rhachomyces philonthinus representan los pri- meros para América del Sur, y también son reporta- Dimeromyces nanomasculus Thaxter CONSTANTIN R. dos nuevos registros para Bolivia, Brasil, Guyana (figs. 1-2) Description of a new species of Melyrodes Gorham, 1882 from Ecuador (Coleoptera, Francesa, Jamaica, Kenya y Sud Africa. Melyridae) . 465 Distribution. Described from Semiardistomis Palabras clave: Coleptera, hongos parásitos. viridis (Say) (= Ardistomis viridis Say) from the BELLÒ C., OSELLA G. USA, and Ardistomis eductus Bates, likely from Two new species of Howdeniola Osella (1980) from Ecuador (Coleoptera Central America (Thaxter 1908) and not recor- Curculionidae Cossoninae) . 469 Introduction ded since. Laboulbeniales are ectoparasitic fungi on New record from Ecuador. Cotopaxi, Cantón living Arthropods, especially insects. These fungi Sigchos, San Francisco de Las Pampas, Bosque RIGATO F., S CUPOLA A. have barely been studied in Ecuador: to date, Integral Otonga, 79°00.1’W 0°25.1’S, 25-28 July Two new species of the Pyramica gundlachi-group from Ecuador (Hymenoptera only 26 species have been recorded, as summari- 2005, Walter Rossi, on the elytra and mesoster- Formicidae) . 477 zed in the following table. The first records date num of Ardistomis venustulus Putzeys (Carabidae: to 1908, which means that, on average, one spe- Scaritinae: Clivinini). JANNI O., BOANO G., PAVIA M., SILVANO F. cies has been reported every four years! Other unpublished records. BOLIVIA, Dpto. A preliminary avifaunal survey along the Rio Yanayacu-Pucate, Pacaya Samiria In the present paper, 13 more species of Santa Cruz, Prov. Andrés Ibanez, Cantón National Reserve, Loreto, Peru (ECOMUSA Project) . 483 Laboulbeniales, all parasitic on beetles (Coleoptera), Terebinto, Potrerillo del Guendá, sandy banks of 4 11 Biodiversity of South America, I. Memoirs on Biodiversity, 1 (2008): 11-18 Biodiversity of South America, I. Memoirs on Biodiversity,