The main limitations to the establishment of naturally colonizing beetle species seem to be the strongly seasonal semi-arid climatic conditions of the large, lowland areas of the islands and the prevalence of large areas of young and unweathered lava substrates. [...] The isolation of the islands from the coast of Central and South America is of lesser importance in the accumulation of the fauna, because other islands of comparable age, size and isolation elsewhere in the world, but which are more humid, have more beetle species. [...] This is partly a reflection of the isolation of the islands (800–1000 km west of the coast of Ecuador), their youth (only 3–4 million years (Ma)), the difficulty of dispersing to them, their seasonally harsh and semi-arid tropical climate, and the difficulty of establishment by colonizing species. [...] The present plants and animals can be seen to be a record of the successes in dispersal to the islands, and of the dynam- ics of their subsequent evolution in isolation. [...] It is the goal of this study to present an exploration or reconstruction of the dynamics of dispersal, isolation, differentiation, and bionomics (natural histories) of the beetles of the Galápagos Archipelago and the data upon which they are based.
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Table of Contents
- Cover 1
- Contents 7
- Abstract/Résumé 11
- Summary 13
- Acknowledgements 15
- Chapter 1. Introduction 17
- Chapter 2. The Galápagos Islands:Geology, Climate, and Biotic Zonation 19
- Chapter 3. Methods and Materials 33
- Chapter 4. Processes I: Origin and Arrival of the Beetle Colonists 45
- Chapter 5. Processes II: Evolution of the Beetle Fauna 63
- Chapter 6. Patterns I: Ecology and Distribution of the Beetles 75
- Chapter 7. Patterns II: Beetle Assemblages and Habitat Types 87
- Chapter 8. Future Studies on Galápagos Beetles and Conservation Issues 93
- Chapter 9. Organization of an Annotated Catalog of Galápagos Beetles 95
- Chapter 10. Annotated Catalogue of Galápagos Beetle Species Arranged by Families 117
- Suborder Adephaga 117
- Family Carabidae, The Predaceous Ground Beetles and TigerBeetles 117
- Family Gyrinidae, The Whirligig Beetles 133
- Family Haliplidae, The Crawling Water Beetles 133
- Family Dytiscidae, The Predaceous Diving Beetles 134
- Suborder Polyphaga 136
- Series Staphyliniformia 136
- Superfamily Hydrophiloidea 136
- Family Hydrophilidae, The Water Scavenger Beetles 136
- Family Histeridae, The Hister Beetles 140
- Superfamily Staphylinoidea 142
- Family Hydraenidae, The Minute Moss Beetles 142
- Family Ptiliidae, The Feather-winged Beetles 142
- Family Scydmaenidae, The Antlike Stone Beetles 146
- Family Staphylinidae, The Rove Beetles 147
- Series Scarabaeiformia 174
- Superfamily Scarabaeoidea 174
- Family Passalidae, The Passalid Beetles 174
- Family Trogidae, The Trox Beetles 174
- Family Scarabaeidae, The Scarab Beetles 176
- Series Elateriformia 181
- Superfamily Buprestoidea 181
- Family Buprestidae, The Metallic Wood-boring Beetles 181
- Superfamily Byrrhoidea 181
- Family Limnichidae, The Minute Marsh-loving Beetles 182
- Family Heteroceridae, The Variegated Mud-loving Beetles 182
- Family Chelonariidae, The Chelonariid Beetles 183
- Superfamily Elateroidea 183
- Family Eucnemidae, The False Click Beetles 183
- Family Elateridae, The Click Beetles 184
- Family Cantharidae, The Soldier Beetles 188
- Series Bostrichiformia 189
- Family Jacobsoniidae, The Jacobsoniid Beetles 189
- Superfamily Bostrichiformia 189
- Family Dermestidae 189
- Family Bostrychidae (including Lyctinae) 191
- Family Anobiidae, the Spider and Death Watch Beetles 194
- Superfamily Cleroidea 199
- Family Trogossitidae, The Bark-Gnawing Beetles 199
- Family Cleridae, The Checkered Beetles 200
- Family Melyridae, The Soft-Winged Flower Beetles 202
- Superfamily Cucujoidea 202
- Family Nitidulidae, The Sap-feeding Beetles 202
- Family Monotomidae, The Root-eating Beetles 205
- Family Silvanidae, The Flat Bark Beetles 206
- Family Laemophloeidae, The Lined Flat Bark Beetles 208
- Family Phalacridae, The Shining Mold Beetles 211
- Family Languriidae, The Lizard Beetles 211
- Family Biphyllidae, The False Skin Beetles 212
- Family Bothrideridae, The Bothriderid Beetles 212
- Family Cerylonidae, The Minute Bark Beetles 213
- Family Discolomatidae, The Discolomatid Beetles 214
- Family Endomychidae, The Handsome Fungus Beetles 215
- Family Coccinellidae, The Ladybird Beetles 216
- Family Corylophidae, The Minute Fungus Beetles 221
- Family Latridiidae, The Minute Brown Scavenger Beetles 222
- Superfamily Tenebrionoidea 223
- Family Mycetophagidae, The Hairy Fungus Beetles 223
- Family Ciidae, The Minute Tree-fungus Beetles 224
- Family Mordellidae, The Tumbling Flower Beetles 225
- Family Rhipiphoridae, The Wedge-shaped Beetles 227
- Family Colydiidae, The Cylindrical Bark Beetles 228
- Family Tenebrionidae, The Darkling Beetles 229
- Family Oedemeridae, The False Blister Beetles 249
- Family Meloidae, The Blister Beetles 250
- Family Anthicidae, The Antlike Flower Beetles 251
- Family Aderidae, The Ant-Like Leaf Beetles 252
- Family Scraptiidae, The False Flower Beetles 253
- Superfamily Chrysomeloidea 254
- Family Cerambycidae, The Long-horned Beetles 254
- Family Bruchidae, The Seed Beetles 261
- Family Chrysomelidae, The Leaf Beetles 265
- Superfamily Curculionoidea 269
- Family Anthribidae, The Fungus Weevils 269
- Family Brentidae, The straight-snouted weevils. 270
- Family Curculionidae, The Weevils 270
- Chapter 11. References 297
- Chapter 11. References 297
- Index of Topics 317
- Index of Taxa 321
