Carabid beetles new to or confirmed for the Belgian fauna (Coleoptera, Carabidae)
1995
Desender, K. | Maes, D. (Koninklijk Belgisch Inst. voor Natuurwetenschappen, Brussel (Belgium). Dept. of Entomology)
In this paper, 15 species of carabids are reported, new to or confirmed for the Belgian fauna, obtained either through recent sampling or through reexamination of old museum collections. A recent started ecological study of the woodland 'Bos t'Ename' in the southern part of the Flanders has revealed the presence of Dromius bifasciatus, a carabid beetle which appears to be new for the Belgian fauna. Recent research in the context of establishing a documented Red list of carabids in Flanders has encouraged to check and/or identify some very old collections from the Royal Belgian Entomology Society. These collections are housed in the Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences in Brussels but apparently part of it was never checked by the authors nor by previous Belgian carabidologists. Although these data mainly concern old to very old observations they enabled the authors to add 15 more species to the checklist of ground and tiger beetles of Belgium, several of which have never been reported before or not yet accepted due to the lack of reference material. This increases the number of the ground and tiger beetle species to a total of 401. Several of these additional species however have not been yet captured during recent decades or not even during this century and therefore probably have to be considered as extinct. A number of species can be interpreted as accidental immigrators into Belgium. For other species the authors have reasons to believe they once occurred in reproducing populations, but disappeared most probably through habitat destruction or deterioration.
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