The bess beetles (Coleoptera, Passalidae) of three subregions of the Department of Sucre, Caribbean region of Colombia

Abstract

We provide species lists and geographical occurrence records of the beetle family Passalidae for three subregions of the department of Sucre, northern Colombia. The sampling localities are lowland environments with typical tropical dry forest vegetation. We selected 15 sampling sites and examined decomposing trunks. We record seven species, four genera, and two tribes of Passalidae. The most abundant species were Passalus punctiger Lepeletier & Serville, 1825, P. interstitialis Eschscholtz, 1829, and P. interruptus (Linnaeus, 1758). We also provide new records for Passalus punctatostriatus Percheron, 1835, Paxillus leachi MacLeay, 1819, and Popilius marginatus (Percheron, 1835) in the department of Sucre. Veturius aspina Kuwert, 1898 was present only in the localities with well-preserved forests. Finally, the species number recorded in this study is low compared to other inventories in Neotropical regions.

Passalidae (Coleoptera, Scarabaeoidea) from the Caribbean coast of Colombia: synopsis, key, and new species description

“…The Caribbean region of Colombia is the most comprehensively know for passalids, based in amount of works published in the last two decades (e.g., Jiménez-Ferbans and Amat-García 2009 ; Jiménez-Ferbans et al 2010 ; Jiménez-Ferbans et al 2012 , 2014 , 2022 ; Taboada-Verona and Murillo-Ramos 2020 ). Jiménez-Ferbans and Amat-García (2009 , 2010 ), and Jiménez-Ferbans et al (2010) represented the first works that systematically studied the passalids of the region, registering 18 species and proposing a key and synopsis for their identification.…”