New records of Coccinellidae (Coleoptera) to the Azores islands

• Author(s): Soares, António O. ; Borges, Isabel ; Cabral, Susana ; Figueiredo, Helena ; Resendes, Roberto
• Date: 2006
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.3/732
• Origin: Repositório da Universidade dos Açores
• Subject(s): Coccinellidae; Novas Espécies; New species; Ilha do Pico (Açores); Azores
• Document Type: Report
• Language: English

Description

XII Expedição Científica do Departamento de Biologia - Pico 2005. In order to record new Coccinellidae species to the Azores, forty one samplings were made in S. Miguel, Graciosa and Pico islands. Graciosa and Pico islands surveys were performed during the scientific expeditions organised by the Department of Biology from the University of the Azores, between the 7th and 15th of June, 2004 and the 6th and 15th of June, 2005, respectively. A total of eleven species were collected. The presence of two new species was noticed: one Scymnini species to Pico island, Clitosthetus arcuatus (Rossi) and one Coccinellini species to S. Miguel island, Myrrha octodecimguttata (Linnaeus).