Entomotropica
Vol. 18(2): 157. Agosto 2003

ISSN 1317-5262

New country record for Totoia splendida Ocampo, 2003 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea: Hybosoridae)

Federico C. Ocampo1, Enrico Barbero2

1 Systematics Research Collections, W 436 Nebraska Hall, University of Nebraska State Museum, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States 68588-0546.
2 Dipartimento di Biologia Animale e dell'Uomo Università di Torino,Via Accadenia Albertina 17, 10123, Italy

Abstract

Ocampo FC, Barbero E. 2003. New country record for Totoia splendida Ocampo 2003 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea: Hybosoridae). Entomotropica 18(2):157.

Totoia splendida Ocampo is for the first time recorded from Nicaragua.

Additional key words: Faunistics, Nicaragua.

Resumen

Ocampo FC, Barbero E. 2003. Nuevo registro para el país de Totoia splendida Ocampo 2003 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea: Hybosoridae). Entomotropica 18(2):157.

Se presenta el primer registro de Totoia splendida Ocampo para Nicaragua.

Palabras clave adicionales: Faunística, Nicaragua.

The genus Totoia was recently described by one of us (Ocampo 2003) for two species: T. splendida Ocampo recorded for Costa Rica and Panama, and T. brachycarina Ocampo recorded for Panama and Colombia. This note documents T. splendida for Nicaragua.

This new record for Nicaragua extends the known distribution of the T. splendida near 350 km N. The new locality is placed in the Reserva de la Biósfera Bosawas in northeastern Nicaragua at 313 m, near Rápidos de Waula Komba in Waspuk river.

Material examined

1 male, Nicaragua, Reserva de la Biósfera Bosawas, Cerro Suyakno Tuna Asang 1.x.1996 leg. G. Trezzi (Enrico Berbero Collection).

Totoia species are attracted to lights and dung traps. Specimens were collected from near sea level up to altitudes of 850 m in Central and South American rain forests (Ocampo 2003). The habitat were the specimen was collected in Nicaragua corresponds to a humid lowland forest, same kind of habitat of previous records of T. splendida.