Coleoptera Lamellicornia (Macleay, 1819) del Sur del estado de Morelos, México

Abstract

Over a period five years (1980-1985) 5,143 samples of coleopteran lamelicornios of the families Melolonthidae. Scarabaeidae, Trogidae, and Passalidae were coliected in the Southern part of the State of Morelos The samples consisted of 12 subfamilies, 25 tribes, and 126 species of the following gender: Diplotaxis, Polyphylla, Phyllophaga, Macrodactylus, Calomacraspis, Macraspis, Pehdnota. Parachrysina, Stngoderma, Anómala, Cyclocephala, Ligyrus, Strategus, Dynastes. Golofa, Hemiphileurus, Phileurus, Cotinis, Hologymnetis, Paragymnetis, Gymnetis, Euphona, Apeltastes, Trigonopeltastes, Copris. Dichotomius, Ateuchus, Canthidium, Phanaeus, Coprophanaeus, Canthon, Pseudocanchon, Deltoch.'um. Onthophagus, Aphodius, Martinezia, Ataenius, Neopsammodius, Platytomus, Ceratocanthus, Bolborhombus, Ochodaeus, Omorgus, Ptichopus and Passalus. The genera Phyllophaga, Diploiaxis, Anómala, Euphoria. Ataenius, Onihophagus, and Canthon comprised 53.1 6% of the total species capturad. Anómala viHoseía is recorded for the first time for the State of Morelos. Of the dispersión patterns proposed by Halffter for the Mexican Transitional Zone, 53.33% oí the genera and 34.92% of the species are tncluded in the Typical Neotropicai Dispersión Pattern, 28.88% of the genera and 42.06% of the species in the Widely Successful Paleoamerican Pattern, and 1 7.77% of the genera and 23.01% of the species are included in the Mexican High Plateau Pattern. At the generic level, Neotropicai elements show a clear predominance, but at the species level, paleoamerican elements predominate due to the great diversity of species of Phyllophaga, Anómala and Onthophagus. A key to the local species is aiso included.