Terrestrial zoology in southern Chile

Abstract

By southern Chile I mean a strip of land more than 2000 kilometres long, beginning at its northern end with the Valdivian forest at the 36th parallel and ending at Cape Horn at the 56th parallel. Because of the zone’s extreme dissection and the very low density of population this is a very difficult area in which to travel and it is the least well explored part of Chile. Certain important and extensive areas have faunas which are virtually unknown; we may instance those between Puerto Montt and Aisen and also the whole of the coastal strip of Aisen as well as the islands between Chiloe and the Gulf of Penas. Owing to the fact that something is known of both ends of the zone it is possible to form a general idea of the characteristics and composition of the included fauna.

Sobre La Presencia Y Habitos Alimentarios De Latrodectus Thoracicus Nicolet (Araneae: Theridiidae), en La Estepa Patágonica De Última Esperanza (Región De Magallanes), Chile

“…(Fig. 3) y dos del género Plathestes (Fig.4) Los insectos-presa identificados pertenecen a especies de coleópteros de hábitos principalmente epigeos y característicos de la estepa patagónica (Cekalovic, 1974, kuschel, 1960, Peña, 1966, Roig-Juñent & Cicchino, 1989, Vidal & Guerrero, 2007. Normalmente estas especies se ocultan en el día bajo gramíneas (Poa spp., Festula spp., y Stipa Los resultados obtenidos indican que los insectos-presas que captura Latrodectus thoracicus en la estepa patagónica de Magallanes, se compone principalmente de coleópteros epigeos.…”

Carábidos (Coleóptera: Carabidae) presentes en un relicto vegetacional del llano central de La Araucanía

“…Aspectos biogeográficos de las especies chilenas han sido estudiados por Kuschel (1960Kuschel ( , 1969, O'Brien (1971), Cekalovic (1974), Artigas (1975), Roig-Juñent & Debandi (2004); taxonómicos por Roig-Juñent & Domínguez (2001), Jiroux (2006); ecológicos por Niemelä (1990), Briones & Jerez (2007), Benítez et al (2008). Otros, indirectamente han entregado antecedentes ecológicos de esta familia tras estudiar comunidades de coleópteros asociadas a ambientes altomontanos (Elgueta, 1988), bosques patagónicos (Elgueta, 1993), pantanosos (Solervicens & Elgueta, 1994), esclerófilos (Solervicens & Estrada, 2002) y fragmentados (Grez et al, 2003(Grez et al, , 2004(Grez et al, , 2006.…”

Three New Megalyrids From South America(Hymenoptera: Megalyridae)

“…Even so, Nelson and Platnick (1981) characterized the family Megalyridae as "moderately diversified" in South America, citing Kuschel (1960). Although Kuschel (1960) The morphological terminology used in this paper is mostly that of Shaw (in press).…”

“…Although Kuschel (1960) The morphological terminology used in this paper is mostly that of Shaw (in press). Microsculpture terminology is that of Harris (1979).…”