Review of the Cassidinae of Ecuador, with a description of thirteen ...

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LECH BOROWIEC
species known from Ecuador, including descriptions of 13 species new to the
science. I excluded the tribe Imatidiini because it was transferred to the subfamily
Hispinae (MONROS & VIANA 1947, BOROWIEC 1995).
As a result, 200 species have been recorded from Ecuador, 70 of them known
only from this country. The fauna is partly unique but with relations to the fauna
of Colombia and Peru. Probably many species recorded from southern Colombia
and northern Peru, but not from Ecuador, will be in the future discovered in that
country. I estimate the total number of species living in Ecuador at c. 250.
Because most species are rather lowland and forest, further investigations should
concentrate in Napo, Pastaza and Morona Santiago Provinces.
CATALOGUE OF CASSIDINAE OF ECUADOR
Tribe Delocraniini SPAETH, 1929
Genus: Delocrania GUÉRIN, 1844
Delocrania GUÉRIN, 1844: pl. 141 (type species: Delocrania cossyphoides GUÉRIN, 1844, by
monotypy).
Delocrania latipennis CHAMPION, 1893: 126.
Delocrania latipennis CHAMPION, 1893
Distr.: Described generally from Ecuador (CHAMPION 1893). New record:
Napo, Sucumbios, Sacha Lodge, 4-14 III 1994, 1, HIBBS (SEM).
Tribe Hemisphaerotini MONROS et VIANA, 1951
Genus: Spaethiella BARBER et BRIDWELL, 1940
Spaethiella BARBER et BRIDWELL, 1940: 11 (new name for Hemisphaerota SPAETH, 1905 not
CHEVROLAT, 1837).
Hemisphaerota SPAETH, 1905: 82 (type species: Imatidium sanguineum FABRICIUS, 1801, designated
by SPAETH, 1929 b: 113), not CHEVROLAT, 1837.
Spaethiella circumdata BOHEMAN, 1850
Porphyraspis circumdata BOHEMAN, 1850: 94.
Hemisphaerota circumdata: SPAETH, 1914 g.
Spaethiella circumdata: BLACKWELDER, 1946: 733.
Porphyraspis klenei SPAETH, 1899: 213.
Hemisphaerota klenei: SPAETH, 1914 g: 12.