New Records of Galerucinae Latreille, 18021 for Mexico

Abstract

Galerucinae Latreille 1802, with an estimated 14,500 species, is the most abundant and diverse subfamily of Chrysomelidae in the world. Six percent of the species have been recorded from Mexico. In this study, 19 species were reported for the first time in the country: six from the State of Sonora; four from Chiapas; three from Veracruz; two each from Oaxaca, Hidalgo, Nayarit, and Tamaulipas; and one each from Campeche, Guerrero, Querétaro, and San Luis Potosí. The new records increase by 2.15% the number of galerucine species to a total of 903 for the Republic of Mexico. Luperodes impressicollis Jacoby 1888 was transferred to the genus Eusattodera Schaeffer 1906, NEW COMBINATION.