A Preliminary Checklist of the Click Beetles of Hispaniola  (Coleoptera: Elateridae).

     The click beetles of Hispaniola are poorly documented.  There is no faunal study available that thoroughly treats these beetles from either Hispaniola or any other island of the Greater Antilles.

AGRYPNINAE

Agrypnini

Lacon subcostatus (Candeze)                          Hispaniola: Dominican Republic; Cuba; Antigua;

Guadeloupe; USA: FL

Lacon sp.                                                         Hispaniola: Dominican Republic

Rismethus scobinula (Candeze)                       Hispaniola: Dominican Republic; USA; Mexico;

Costa Rica

Oophorini

Aeolus cibaensis Candeze                                Hispaniola

Aeolus depressus Candeze                               Hispaniola

Aeolus frivolus Candeze                                  Hispaniola

Aeolus maculatus Degeer                                Cuba; Hispaniola; ?South America

Aeolus melliculus Candeze                              USA: TX; Mexico; Belize; Guatemala; Honduras;

Costa Rica; Panama; Colombia; Argentina;

Hispaniola: Haiti

Aeolus verruculosus Candeze                         Hispaniola

Conoderus bellus (Say)

Conoderus bifoveatus (Palisot de Beauvois)

Conoderus curvifrons (Candeze)                    Hispaniola

Conoderus figularis (Candeze)                       Hispaniola

Conoderus lividus (Degeer)                            Mexico; Bahama Is.; Cuba: I. de Pinos; Hispaniola:

Haiti; Puerto Rico; Guadeloupe; USA

Conoderus posticus (Eschscholtz)                    Mexico; Panama; Colombia; Brasil; Argentina;

Venezuela; St. Vincent; Grenada; Guadeloupe;

Hispaniola

Conoderus rufidens Fabricius                          Guadeloupe; Desirade; Brasil; USA: FL; Cuba;

Hispaniola; Mexico

Conoderus sericans (Candeze)                        Hispaniola; Cuba

Conoderus sticticus Erichson                           Cuba; Hispaniola; Colombia; Venezuela; Peru

Conoderus substriatus (Candeze)                    Hispaniola

Conoderus n.sp. 1

Conoderus n.sp. 2

Conoderus n.sp. 3

Conoderus n.sp. 4

Heteroderes amplicollis (Gyllenhal)    

Heteroderes sp. aff. heterostixus

Hemirrhipini

Alaus nobilis Salle                                           Hispaniola: Dominican Republic

Alaus patricius (Candeze)                               Cuba: Camaguey, Havana, Las Villas, Oriente, Pinar

del Rio; Jamaica; Hispaniola: Dominican Republic;

USA: FL; Bahamas: Andros I.,  Cat I.; Cayman I.,

Grand Cayman I.

Alaus tricolor (Olivier)                                     Hispaniola: Dominican Republic; Nicaragua: Samana;

Venezuela: Zulia

Alaus n.sp.

Chalcolepidius silbermanni Chevrolat             Trinidad; Hispaniola: Haiti, Dominican Republic;

Puerto Rico; Guadeloupe; Jamaica; Mexico; Belize;

Guatemala; Honduras; Nicaragua; El Salvador; Costa

Rica; Panama; Colombia; Venezuela +

Pherhimius fascicularis (Fabricius)                 Mexico: YUC; Belize: Cayo; Cuba; I. des Pinos;

[Hispaniola] Dominican Rep; Panama: CZ; French

Guiana: Cayenne; USA: DC, FL, MD, MO, NC, PA,

TN, TX

Pyrophorini

Ignelater glaesum Costa                                 Bahamas: Cayman I., Andros I.; Cat I., Eleuthera I.,

New Providence I.; Dominican Rep.

Ignelater havaniensis (Laporte)                      Cuba; USA: FL; Bahamas: Andros I., Mangrove Cay,

Eleuthera I., Grand Bahama I., New Providence I.,

Simm's Long I.; Mexico; Colombia; Trinidad/Tobago;

Dominican Rep.

Ignelater luminosus (Illiger)                             Puerto Rico; Hispaniola: Dominican Rep.; St.

Thomas; St. Croix; Antigua; St. Lucia; Venezuela

Ignelater phosphoreus (Linnaeus)                    Haiti; Dominican Rep.; Puerto Rico; Virgin I.: St.

Thomas, Virgin Gorda; [Brasil, Argentina]

Pyrophorus mellifluus Costa                           Haiti; Mexico; Guatemala; Costa Rica; Colombia;

Brasil; Trinidad & Tobago; Cuba; Dominican

Republic; Martinique; Santa Lucia

Platycrepidiini

Platycrepidius latus Fleutiaux                          Hispaniola

Platycrepidius wapleri Salle                            Hispaniola

ELATERINAE

Physorhinini

Anchastomorphus phedrus (Candeze)             Mexico; Guatemala; Nicaragua; Panama; Brasil;

Argentina; Grenada; Hispaniola

Anchastomorphus phedrus grouvellei Fleutiaux

Anchastus rufescens Candeze                         Cuba; Hispaniola: Dominican Republic

Anchastus sp.                                                  Hispaniola: Dominican Republic

Dicrepidiini

Atractosomus sp.

Anoplischius brunneus (Fleutiaux & Salle)

Anoplischius sp. nr. brunneus

Anoplischius punctatus Candeze                     Hispaniola

Dicrepidius ramicornis Palisot de Beauvois     Mexico; Nicaragua; Brasil: Chaco; Argentina; Cuba; I.

de Pinos;

                                                                        Guadeloupe; Hispaniola: Dominican Republic

Dipropus antennatus (Candeze)                      Cuba; Hispaniola

Dipropus asper (Candeze)                               Hispaniola

Dipropus striatus Candeze

Dipropus sp. 1

Dipropus sp. 2

Dipropus sp. 3

Spilus sp.

Megapenthini

Megapenthes n.sp. nr taeniatus Candeze

Megapenthes n.sp.

Synaptini

Glyphonyx bivittatus Candeze                        Hispaniola

Glyphonyx fusculus Erichson                           Cuba; Hispaniola

Glyphonyx praevius Erichson                          Hispaniola

Glyphonyx n.sp. 1

Glyphonyx n.sp. 2

Glyphonyx n.sp. 3

Glyphonyx n.sp. 4

LISSOMINAE

Drapetes bicolor Laporte                                New Record

Drapetes tunicatus Bonvouloir                        Cuba; Hispaniola

Lissomus n.sp.                                                 Hispaniola: Dominican Republic

CARDIOPHORINAE

Horistonotus asthenicus Candeze                   Cuba; Hispaniola; Guadeloupe; Brasil

Horistonotus bignoniae Candeze                    Hispaniola

Esthesopus poedicus Candeze

Esthesopus n.sp. 1

Esthesopus n.sp. 2