Lista de Scolytidae y Platypodidae de Mexico (Insecta: Coleoptera)

Abstract

A data h.isc was created with information from Scolytidae and Plalypodidae specirnens which are deposited in five national entomological collections. A number of 19,474 specimens, were checked 93% of which weie collected in México; the data base information was complementeded with 558 records of 350 species from literature, rhese species are not ptesent in the collections that were checked out. The Scolytidae represented by 827 species in México, while the Platypodidae farnily by 40 species; of thoso species 60% and 46% respectively, are documonted by collections analyzed. Wiih data base infoimation was elavorated a catalog of Mexican species fot both families, it contains information about taxonomy geogiaphic distiibution, hosts, altitude and deposit collection.