Bruchinae, Latreille, 1802

Linzmeier, Adelita M., Moura, Luciano de A., Ribeiro-Costa, Cibele S., Manfio, Daiara, Agrain, Federico, Chamorro, Maria L., Morse, Geoffrey E., Regalin, Renato & Sekerka, Lukáš, 2024, An overview of the Brazilian Chrysomelidae (Insecta: Coleoptera): the most species-rich beetle family in Brazil, Zoologia (e 23092) 41, pp. 1-21 : 5-6

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https://doi.org/10.1590/S1984-4689.v41.e23092

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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/0D108048-FFAF-4A5C-7CA9-FA6FFE5278BF

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scientific name

Bruchinae
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Bruchinae View in CoL

Bruchinae Latreille, 1802 View in CoL , stand out mainly because of its exclusive larval feeding habit. During the developmental time, a larva may consume one or more seeds, and this behavior can cause serious damage compromising future plant generations. Most of the seeds consumed are legumes ( Fabaceae View in CoL ), with some of them also included in the human diet as beans, peas, etc, with high nutritional content ( Ribeiro-Costa and Almeida 2012). Their feeding preferences make this group of a great economic importance, with some species considered pests of stored grains or field crops, while others are used as biological control agents of weeds ( Briano et al. 2002). In Brazil Zabrotes subfasciatus (Boheman, 1833) , Acanthoscelides obtectus (Say, 1831) and Callosobruchus maculatus (Fabricius, 1775) are the main bean ( Phaseolus vulgaris L. ( Fabaceae View in CoL )) pests ( Ribeiro-Costa et al. 2007, Ribeiro-Costa and Almeida 2012), and Sennius species consume many Senna View in CoL , Cassia View in CoL and Chamaecrista species ( Silva et al. 2003, Linzmeier et al. 2004, Viana and Ribeiro-Costa 2013). Other species of economic importance include those associated with palms, with Pachymerus nucleorum (Fabricius, 1792) considered a pest of commercially grown palms in Brazil ( Garcia et al. 1980, Andrade et al. 2013, Silva et al. 2020). In contrast, adults feed on pollen and/or nectar, but the pest species in stored grain conditions do not require to eat as adults. Bruchines also have been the subject of studies on evolutionary patterns of host-plant use ( Kergoat et al. 2011, 2015, Manfio et al. 2016) and only data collected from hosts of larvae are used for this purpose.

Composed of more than 1,650 species worldwide distributed mainly in tropical regions ( Morse 2014), Bruchinae View in CoL are classified into six tribes and 65 genera; most of the tribes have been suggested to be paraphyletic based on molecular studies ( Kergoat et al. 2008, 2015). Of the total number of bruchine species, 293 in 25 genera are recorded to occur in Brazil, representing approximately 17% of the world fauna. However, we believe a much higher number of species occurs in Brazil. The endophagous habit of the group, developing inside fruits that require specific collecting methods, probably is one reason for the low record of bruchine species collected in Brazil.

Two genera stand out as the most diverse in Brazil, Acanthoscelides ( Bruchini ) and Amblycerus ( Amblycerini ) with 70 and 63 Brazilian species, respectively. A catalog of the Brazilian species of Amblycerus was published by Ribeiro-Costa et al. (2018) with the aim of stimulating new studies on this genus, which still has many Brazilian species to be described and is in need of phylogenetic analyses based on a wider taxon sampling. On the other hand, while Acanthoscelides is the most diverse genus in the group, many species remain poorly studied.

Many scientists have described Brazilian bruchines, but three stand out as the most prolific: the French Maurice Pic (82 species), the Brazilian Cibele Stramare Ribeiro-Costa (53 species; 25 with co-authors) and the American John Mark Kingsolver (1925–2013) (37 species; 11 with co-authors). Other researchers worth mentioning who have significantly contributed to our understanding of Brazilian bruchines are the American Clarence Dan Johnson (1931–2005) and the Argentinian Arturo Luis Teràn (1932–2016). Bruchines are one of the few chrysomelid subfamilies with a published world catalog ( Udayagiri and Wadhi 1989), an overview of world genera ( Borowiec 1987), as well as a complex treatment of the Nearctic fauna ( Kingsolver 2004), and a subject of a book chapter ( Ribeiro-Costa and Almeida 2012). Aspects of the natural history of Brazilian species have been recently investigated by Linzmeier et al.(2004), Sari and Ribeiro-Costa (2005), Grenha et al. (2008), Rodrigues et al. (2012), and Sousa-Lopes et al. (2019).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Chrysomelidae

Loc

Bruchinae

Linzmeier, Adelita M., Moura, Luciano de A., Ribeiro-Costa, Cibele S., Manfio, Daiara, Agrain, Federico, Chamorro, Maria L., Morse, Geoffrey E., Regalin, Renato & Sekerka, Lukáš 2024
2024
Loc

Bruchinae

Latreille 1802
1802
Loc

Bruchinae

Latreille 1802
1802
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