Cetoniinae Research

2009-10-20T08:07:00.000-07:00

Cetoniinae is a group of scarab beetles with about 4.000 species. The group includes seventeen tribes (sensu Krikken 1984) when his Trichiinae and Valginae are considered as part of the group: Cryptodontini, Incaini, Osmodermini, Platygenini, Trichini, Microvalgini, Valgini, Cremastocheilini, Xiphoscelidini, Stenotarsiini, Schizorhinini, Goliathini, Cetoniini, Gymnetini, Diplognathini, Phaedimini, and Taenioderini. Many of the tribes are not well defined making it difficult (and subjective), in ocassions, to define membership.

Many Cetonines are bright in coloration making them popular among collectors. Nevertheless, the group is poorly understood from an evolutionary point of view. There is a vast amount of taxonomical and nomenclatural problems almost at any hierarchical level. A vast amount of systematics research would be needed to solve these problems. So far, morphological characters of both adults and larvae seem to be only of limited use for reconstructing the phylogeny of the group. In addition, despite its notoriety and relatively abundance in collections, very few is known on the biology of the majority of the species.

Collecting Cetoniines. First the bad news: There is not a single method to collect all the species in the group. Adults, when they feed, are known to use a variety of sources from plants and animals as food. Beetles* frequently feed on floral offerings or ripe fruits but have also been found associated to, for example, fresh dung. Other species do not feed or live mostly underground by themselves or with colonies of social insects or rodents.

Fruit traps are a common method to collect cetoniines but because of the above it is rather limited**. Banana, plantains, pineapples, and mangos are commonly used attractants. Some collectors add sugar, beer, rum or vinegar to accelerate the fermentation process. The fruit can be hanged directly with a strip in a tree or can be put into a plastic container simulating an aerial pitfall. I use plantains as bait every time I can and check the trap at least every week. Adults of some species are only collected at a specific height, so trap height and location in the forest is very important.

* The vagueness will disappear once I get my article published.

**Also the reason why I avoid using the common terms “fruit chafer” and “flower chafer”.

AMERICAN CETONIINI

I'm reviewing all the species in the American continents. This is a taxonomic exceedingly difficult group of beetles. Within the about 70 species present in the Western hemisphere there is high amount of variation that is hard to classify in discrete taxa. The intraspecific variation is also big in some of the species making the character coding for the phylogenetic analysis frustrating. My goals on this project is to produce a monograph that will enable the identification of all species, and produce a classification that reflects the evolutionary lineages. Update: My revision is finished and should be published next year.

Euphoria lesueuri (G. & P. 1833) This species is one of the most robust Cetoniini in the Americas competing in this regard with E. candezei. The pronotum is dull in the male and shinny in the female. There is variation in color in the species, ranging from different tonalities of green to almost black. The shape of the male genitalia is unique in the group. From Mexico.

AMERICAN GYMNETINI

Dr. Ratcliffe is doing a taxonomic revision of all the American species. I will be collaborating with the revision of some genera. I'm interested in 1) testing the generic and tribal concepts, 2) the position of Blaesiina, and 3) understanding the relationships with the African genera of the tribe.

PHYLOGENETIC ANALYSIS OF THE CETONIINAE BASED ON MORPHOLOGICAL AND MOLECULAR DATA

My work on Cetoniini and Gymnetini gave me some insights about the big mess that is the tribal classification in the subfamily. I'm working on a character analysis that will produce an entire new system based on synapomorphies. Some genera will be revised along the way.

FAUNISTIC SURVEYS

I'm documenting the diversity of selected groups of scarabs from different regions. Most of my work involves cetonines but I have also worked and are interested on Scarabaeinae. Currently I'm working on the cetonines from Colombia, Ghana, Guatemala, and South Africa. Eventually I will produce a guide to the American Cetoniinae, and then to conquer the World.

WEB PROJECTS

Guide to the genera of New World pleurosticti scarab beetles. Cetoniinae page (under construction).

Tree of Life. Cetoniinae page

Colombian Entomology Listserv Hexos

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Jesús Orozco Araújo [Hae-SOOS]. My research concerns include natural history, diversity, ecology, biogeography and systematics of beetles. My investigation involves reconstructing the evolutionary history of groups of organisms, describing new taxa, exploring the diversity of a region, interpreting distributional patterns, describing immature stages, and understanding character evolution. My main group of interest are scarab beetles, particularly Cetonines (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Cetoniinae).

I did my undergraduate work in Colombia at the Universidad Industrial de Santander in Bucaramanga. For my B.Sc. degree in Biology I worked on the morphological description of the larvae and pupae of two species of Gymnetis and one of Euphoria. After that, I moved to the United States and initiated my M.S. in Dr. Keith Philips's Laboratory of Systematics and Evolution at Western Kentucky University. There I began working on the phylogenetics of the Cetoniini of the American continents, and on the Cetoniinae of Ghana. The results from my thesis dealing with the morphological analysis of New World Cetoniini were very hard to interpret and gave me an idea of the difficulties on studying this group morphologically.

I obtained my Ph.D. degree in Entomology from the University of Nebraska, working under the supervision of Dr. Brett Ratcliffe. My dissertation involved the taxonomic revision of the American Cetoniini, and a phylogenetic analysis of the group.

Currently I'm a posdoctoral fellow at Rhodes University, South Africa working on the phylogeography of several groups of montane cetoniinae and on the phylogeny of the subfamily.

Publications.

Jesús Orozco, T. Keith Philips (2010) Phylogenetic analysis of the American genus Euphoria and related groups based on morphological characters of adults (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Cetoniinae: Cetoniini), 39-54. In Insect Systematics and Evolution .
http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/187631210X1...
Jesús Orozco (2009) A new generic and new specific synonym in the genus Euphoria Burmeister (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Cetoniinae: Cetoniini)., 1-4. In Insecta Mundi.
http://journals.fcla.edu/mundi/articl...
Brett Ratcliffe, Jesús Orozco (2009) A review of the biology of Pericoptus truncatus (Fabr.) (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Pentodontini) from New Zealand and a revised description of the third instar., 445-451. In The Coleopterist's Bulletin.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1649/1186.1
John Cesar Neita, Jesús Orozco (2009) Larval and pupal descriptions for the genera Podischnus and Heterogomphus (Scarabaeidae: Dynastinae: Oryctini)., 34-44. In Zootaxa.
www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2009/f/z02168...
Jesús Orozco, Maritza Perez (2008) Escarabajos coprofagos del Area Natural Unica Los Estoraques, 36-40. In Revista Brasileira de Entomologia.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S0085-56262...
Jhon Cesar Neita, Jesús Orozco, Brett Ratcliffe (2006) Escarabajos (Scarabaeidae: Pleurosticti) de la selva baja del bosque pluvial tropical “BP-T”, Chocó, Colombia, 1-32. In Acta Zoológica Mexicana.
http://redalyc.uaemex.mx/src/inicio/A...
Jesús Orozco, Luis Carlos Pardo-Locarno (2004) Description of the immature stages of three species of American Cetoniinae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Cetoniinae, 1-14. In Zootaxa.
http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2004/z...

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2009-10-01T19:04:00.000-07:00

Getting names your specimens identified is one frequently one of the first steps in any project.

Back in 2003, when I was doing my bachelor in Colombia, I ~~spammed~~ contacted all the specialist I could find and asked them if they would be willing to provide identifications on material from Colombia. One hundred and ten people answered my call, their names, specialties and contact information are listed below.

Odonota

ENRIQUE GONZALEZ SORIANO (Mexico) esoriano@ibunam.ibiologia.unam.mx libelula1mx@yahoo.com esoriano@ibunam.ibiologia.unam.mx
NICK DONELLY (U.S.A.) tdonnel@binghamton.edu
JHON ABBOT (U.S.A.) jcabbott@mail.utexas.edu

Mantodea

JULIO RIVERA (Peru) 19960081@lamolina.edu.pe

Phasmida

PAUL BROCK (England) Paul@pbrock40.fsnet.co.uk

Isoptera

YVES ROISIN (Belgium) yroisin@ulb.ac.be

Plecoptera

STEFANO FENOGLIO (Italy) s.fenoglio@isiline.it

Phtiraptera

RICARDO PALMA (New Zealand) ricardop@tepapa.govt.nz http://www.tepapa.govt.nz/our_resources/Bugs/collection_bugs.html

Hemiptera

DANIEL PECK (Colombia) Cercopoidea d.peck@cgiar.org
FREDERIC CHEROT (Belgium) Miridae Fcherot@ulb.ac.be
JOE EGER (U.S.A.) Pentatomoidea jeeger@dowagro.com
DAVID A. RIDER Pentatomoidea David.Rider@ndsu.nodak.edu
HARRY BRAILOVSKY (Mexico) Coreidae and Largidae coreidae@servidor.unam.mx
PIETER VAN DOESBURG (Holland) Pentatomidea, Gen. Edessa phvdoes@hetnet.nl
JITKA VILIMOVA Pentatomidae vilim@natur.cuni.cz
ERNST HEISS Aradidae e.heiss@tyrol.at
GEERT GOEMANS (Belgium) Fulgoridae geert.goemans@lin.vlaanderen.be ggoemans@gmail.com
PAUL FREYTAG Cicadellidae pfreytag@ix.netcom.com
DIEGO LEONARDO CARPINTERO (Argentina) Dipsocoromorpha, Enicocephalomorpha and Cimicomorpha dcarpint@museo.fcnym.unlp.edu.ar
MANUEL BAENA (Spain) Reduviidae jsusin@chopo.pntic.mec.es
JEAN-MICHEL BERENGER (France) Reduviidae jmberenger@wanadoo.fr
VINTON THOMPSON (U.S.A.) Cercopoidea vthompso@acfsysv.roosevelt.edu vthompso@roosevelt.edu

Coleoptera

JOSE LUIS NAVARRETE-HEREDIA (Mexico) Staphylinidae, Silphidae, y other fungi related coleopterans. glenusmx@yahoo.com.mx snavarre@maiz.cucba.udg.mx
ERIC VAN DEN BERGHE (Nicaragua) Cicindelidae and Carabidae, Gen. Calosoma ericvdb@avemaria.edu.ni tomeric@ibw.com.ni
TERRY L. ERWIN (U.S.A.) Carabidae mnhen045@sivm.si.edu erwin.terry@nmnh.si.edu
MIKAEL SÖRENSSON (Sweden) Ptilidae Mikael.Sorensson@zool.lu.se
GERARDO ARRIAGADA (Chile) Histeridae and Saprininae gerardoarriagada@terra.cl
PAUL SCHOOLMEESTERS (Belgium) Dung beetles schoolp@online.be http://users.online.be/~schoolp/index.html http://www.coleoptera.org./p735.htm
DAVID EDMONDS (U.S.A.) Scarabaeinae especially phanaeines wdedmonds@csupomona.edu
ENRICO BARBERO (Italy) Trogidae and Geotrupidae Bolboceratinae barbero@dba.unito.it
PEDRO GNASPINI (Brasil) Cholevidae (=Leiodidae Cholevinae) gnaspini@ib.usp.br http://www.ib.usp.br/~gnaspini
MANUEL DIÉGUEZ M. (Chile) Trogidae disal_gerencia@disal.cl
CHUCK BELLAMY (U.S.A.) Buprestidae cbellamy@nhm.org bellamy@nfi.org.za
WOLFGANG RUCKER (Germany) Latridiidae coleoptera@ruecker-latridiidae.de info@latridiidae.de http://www.latridiidae.de
ALISTAIR S. RAMSDALE (U.S.A.) Cantharoidea/ Malacodermata especially Cantharidae, Lycidae, Phengodidae and Lampyridae ramsdale@entomology.wisc.edu
ANDREAS HERRMANN (Germany) Dermestidae herrmann@coleopterologie.de http://www.dermestidae.com
GIANFRANCO CURLETTI (Italy) Buprestidae, only Gen. Agrilus musnat@comune.carmagnola.to.it giancurletti@tiscalinet.it http://www.storianaturale.org
THIERRY NEEF DE SAINVAL (Belgium) Buprestidae sainval@skynet.be
PAUL J. JOHNSON (U.S.A) Elateroidea and Byrrhidae elater@BROOKINGS.NET paul_johnson@sdstate.edu
VRATISLAV RICHARD EUGENE MARIA JOHN BAPTIST (Australia) Tenebrionidae incl Lagriidae, Alleculidae y Zopheridae ricardo@ans.com.au http://www.coleoptera.org
DONALD WINDSOR (U.S.A.) Chrysomelidae, esp. Chrysomelinae, Cassidinae, Hispinae. WINDSORD@tivoli.si.edu
JEFFREY P. HUETHER (U.S.A.) Meloidae jhmeloid@hotmail.com
JOHN KINGSOLVER Bruchidae bruchid@aol.com
UBIRAJARA R.MARTINS (Brasil) Cerambycidae quiqui97@uol.com.br
MIGUEL MONNE (Brasil) Cerambycidae monne@uol.com.br
DAVID FURTH (U.S.A.) Chrysomelidae, Alticinae only at genus level Furth.David@NMNH.SI.EDU
LECH BOROWIEC (Poland) Chrysomelidae, Cassidinae cassidae@biol.uni.wroc.pl www.biol.uni.wroc.pl/cassidae
ROBERTO MIGNANI (Italy) Bolboceratidae, Dynastidae Dynastinae and Cerambycidae Prioninae. mignani@fis.uniroma3.it
FRANCK DUHALDEBORDE (France) franckduhal@oreka.com franckduhal@infonie.fr
DMITRY TELNOV (Letonia) Anthicidae yTrictenotomidae telnov@parks.lv http://www.lubi.edu.lv/les/main.htm http://www.zin.ru/Animalia/Coleoptera/rus/telnov.htm
JOSE RICARDO M. MERMUDES (Brasil) Anthribidae mermudes@bio.ufpr.br
BORIS BUECHE (Germany) Anobiidae excl. Ptininae h0444la3@student.hu-berlin.de
PEDRO REYES-CASTILLO (Mexico) Passalidae, Lucanidae and Scarabaeidae: Aphodiinae: Rhyparini. reyespe@ecologia.edu.mx
FINBARRR HORGAN (Canada) Scarabaeidae specially Coprini and Onthophagini boniga@hotmail.com
BRETT RATCLIFFE (U.S.A.) Scarabaeidae: Dynastinae, Cetoniinae and Rutelinae. bratcliffe1@unl.edu
MARY LIZ JAMESON (U.S.A.) Scarabaeidae:Rutelinae. mjameson1@unl.edu
FEDERICO OCAMPO (Argentina) Scarabaeoidea: Hybosoridae. federico.ocampo@gmail.com
ANDREW SMITH (Canada) Scarabaeidae: Rutelinae. asmith@mus-nature.ca
ALLAN TAYLOR (Australia)(+) Scarabaeidae: Cetoniinae, Rutelinae (esp. plusiotis)
ANTONIO SANTOS-SILVA (Brasil) Coleoptera: Cerambycidae, Parandrinae and Prioninae toncris@zaz.com.br
JUAN ANTONIO DELGADO (Spain) Hydraenidae, especially larvae jdelgado@um.es
Diptera
JUAN CARLOS NAVARRO (Venezuela) Culicidae jnavarro@strix.ciens.ucv.ve
GARY J. STECK (U.S.A.) Tephritidae steckg@doacs.state.fl.us
BRIAN V. BROWN (U.S.A.) Phoridae bbrown@nhm.org
FRANCISCO COLLANTES (Spain) Psychodidae fcollant@fcu.um.es fcollant@um.es
MARTA WOLFF (Colombia) Psychodidae, Gen. Lutzomyia mwolff@matematicas.udea.edu.co
ATILANO CONTRERAS RAMOS (Mexico) Diptera: Tipulidae acramos@uaeh.reduaeh.mx acontreras_ramos@hotmail.com
DALTON DE SOUZA AMORIM (Brasil) Mycetophiloidea, Anisopodidae, Scatopsidae dsamorim@usp.br
CHARLES MACVEAN (Guatemala) Agromyzidae cmacvean@uvg.edu.gt
Trichoptera
AURA CECILIA BURGOS Trichoptera (Colombia) aburgos88@hotmail.com aurace@starmedia.com
Lepidoptera
LUIS MIGUEL CONSTANTINO (Colombia) Rhopalocera lmcons@hotmail.com
GABRIEL RODRÍGUEZ GARCÍA (Colombia) gabrieldimera@yahoo.com
ANDREW NEILD (United Kingdom) Nymphalidae (S.L.) andrew.neild@cableinet.co.uk andrew.neild@bigfoot.com
JOHN E. RAWLINS (U.S.A.) Noctuoidea, Geometroidea, and others rawlinsj@carnegiemuseums.org http://www.carnegiemuseums.org/cmnh/iz/main.htm
KIRBY L. WOLFE (U.S.A.) Saturnidae kirwolfe@pacbell.net
JACQUELINE Y. MILLER (U.S.A.) jmiller@virtu.sar.usf.edu
MICHEL LAGUERRE (France) Arctiidae michel.laguerre@iecb-polytechnique.u-bordeaux.fr
OLAF H. H. MIELKE (Brasil) Hesperiidae omhesp@bio.ufpr.br
MIRNA M. CASAGRANDE (Brasil) Nymphalidae (Brassolinae) mibras@bio.ufpr.br
MATTHEW J. C. BARNES (United Kingdom) Pyralidae, Geometridae and Arctiidae. mbarnes@dircon.co.uk http://www.biologytuition.co.uk http://www.tropicalmoths.org
John Grehan (U.S.A.) Hepialidae jrg13@psu.edu
JOHN HEPPNER Heterocera jbhatl@aol.com
JORGE BIZARRO (Brasil) Nymphalidae bizarro@bio.ufpr.br
CHRIS CONLAN (U.S.A.) Saturnidae conlan@adnc.com
JEAN HAXAIRE (France) Sphingidae jean.haxaire@libertysurf.fr
VITOR O. BECKER (Brasil) Heterocera specially micro vbecker@serrabonita.org
STERPHEN R. STEINHAUSER (U.S.A.) Hesperidae stevrstein@webtv.net
RONALD BRABANT (Belgium) Ithomiidae, Riodinidae, Pieridae: Catasticta h.bischler.r. brabant@wanadoo.be
FABIO VITALE (Italy) Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae, Heliconiinae and Ithomiinae fabio_vitale@tin.it http://digilander.iol.it/phalaecus/
Hymenoptera
ANDRES RICARDO SANTAMARIA (Colombia) Apidae apidae@uol.com.co apidae_andres@latinmail.com
CLAUS RASMUSSEN (Peru) Colletidae, Andrenidae, Apidae, Halictidae and Megachilidae alrunen@yahoo.com
BOLÍVAR RAFAEL GARCETE BARRETT (Paraguay) Vespidae (including Masarinae, Eumeninae y Polistinae), Leucospidae and Sphecidae s.l. bolosphex@sce.cnc.una.py www.geocities.com/bolosphex/ www.geocities.com/bmnhnpy/
GIAN LUCA AGNOLI (Italy) Chrysididae, Cleptidae, Methochinae http://www.chrysis.net info@chrysis.net
CHRISTOPHER K. STARR (Trinidad and Tobago) Vespidae ckstarr99@hotmail.com http://www.uwi.tt:8081/lifesci/index.htm
JOHN NOYES (United Kingdom) Chalcidoidea jsn@NHM.ac.uk
DON MANLEY (U.S.A.) Mutillidae dmanley@clemson.edu
JOHN HUBER (Canada) Mymaridae huberjh@em.agr.ca
CELSO OLIVEIRA AZEVEDO (Brasil) Bethylidae, and small families of Chrysidoidea. cazevedo@npd.ufes.br
SCOTT R. SHAW (U.S.A.) Braconidae y Megalyridae braconid@uwyo.edu
YVES BRAET (Belgium) Braconidae yves.braet@just.fgov.be ybraet@yahoo.fr yves.braet@skynet.be
LYNN S. KIMSEY (U.S.A.) Tiphiidae y Chrysididae lskimsey@ucdavis.edu
DAVID R. SMITH (U.S.A.) Symphyta, Aulacidae dsmith@sel.barc.usda.gov
SÉBASTIEN PATINY (Belgium) Melittidae, Halictidae and Andrenidae patiny.s@fsagx.ac.be
GÉRARD DELVARE (France) Chalcididae gerard.delvare@cirad.fr
DANUNCIA URBAN (Brasil) Hymenoptera: Eucerinae, Anthophoridae and Anthidiinae, Megachilidae urban@bio.ufpr.br.
JAMES M. CARPENTER (U.S.A.) Vespidae carpente@amnh.org
EDWARD O. WILSON (U.S.A.) Formicidae ewilson@oeb.harvard.edu
JOHN E. LATTKE (Venezuela) Formicidae piquihuye@hotmail.com
FERNANDO FERNÁNDEZ (Colombia) Formicidae ffernandez@humbolt.org.co
GORDON C. SNELLING Formicidae, Dorylinae mrmacophyl@southwest.net

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