Sete novas espécies de bruquídeos do gênero Amblycerus Thunberg (Coleoptera, Bruchidae)

A remarkable new species group of green seed beetles from genus Amblycerus Thunberg (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Bruchinae), with description of a new Brazilian species

“…This subfamily encompasses more than 1700 species ( Ribeiro-Costa and Almeida 2012 ) that are distributed worldwide. In the Western hemisphere, two genera, Amblycerus Thunberg, 1815 ( Amblycerini : Amblycerina ) and Acanthoscelides Schilsky, 1905 ( Bruchini : Acanthoscelidina ), stand out as the most hyperdiverse genera ( Kingsolver 1990 , Ribeiro-Costa 1999 ), the first with 340 species ( Kingsolver 1990 ) and the second with more than 100 species ( Romero et al 1996 , Ribeiro-Costa 2000 ). For Acanthoscelides , several molecular analyses indicate that the genus is likely paraphyletic ( Kergoat and Silvain 2004 , Kergoat et al 2005 , 2008 ), which is not surprising considering the lack of clear diagnostic characters for the genus ( Borowiec 1987 , Kergoat and Silvain 2004 ).…”