Coleoptera of Brazil: what we knew then and what we know now. Insights from the Catálogo Taxonômico da Fauna do Brasil

In 2000, Cleide Costa published a paper presenting the state of knowledge of the Neotropical Coleopte ra, with a focus on the Brazilian fauna. Twenty-four years later, thanks to the development of the Coleoptera section of the Taxonomic Catalog of the Brazilian Fauna (CTFB - Catálogo Taxonômico da Fauna do Brasil) through the collaboration of 100 coleopterists from all over the globe, we can build on Costa’s work and present an updated overview of the state of knowledge of the beetles from Brazil. There are currently 35,699 species in 4,958 genera and 116 families known to occur in the country, including representatives of all extant suborders and superfamilies. Our data show that the Brazilian beetle fauna is the richest on the planet, concentrating 9% of the world species diversity, with some estimates accounting to up to 15% of the global total. The most diverse family in numbers of genera is Cerambycidae (1,056 genera), while in number of species it is Chrysomelidae (6,079 species). Conotrachelus Dejean, 1835 (Curculionidae) is the most species-rich genus, with 570 species. The French entomologist Maurice Pic is the author who has contributed the most to the naming of species recorded from Brazil, with 1,794 valid names in 36 families, whereas the Brazilians Ubirajara R. Martins and Maria Helena M. Galileo are the only ones among the top-ten authors to have named species in the 21st century. Currently, approximately 144 new species of Brazilian beetles are described each year, and this average is projected to increase in the next decade to 180 species per year, or about one new Brazilian beetle every two days.

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Fil: Aloquio, Sergio. Universidade Federal de Viçosa; Brasil

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Fil: Leivas, Fernando W. T.. Universidade Federal do Paraná; Brasil

Fil: Souza Gonçalves, Igor. Universidad Federal Rural Pernambuco; Brasil

Fil: Mermudes, José R. M.. Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro; Brasil

Fil: Almeida, Lúcia M.. Universidade Federal do Paraná; Brasil

Fil: Moura, Luciano de A.. Museu de Ciências Naturais; Brasil

Fil: Ferreira Júnior, Nelson. Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro; Brasil

Fil: Grossi, Paschoal C.. Universidad Federal Rural Pernambuco; Brasil

Fil: Vanin, Sergio A.. Universidade de Sao Paulo; Brasil

Fil: Slipinski, Adam. Australian National Insect Collection; Australia

Fil: Anichtchenko, Alexander. Daugavpils University; Letonia

Fil: Newton, Alfred F.. Field Museum Of Natural History; Estados Unidos

Fil: Sampaio, Aline. Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Da Amazônia; Brasil

Fil: Carelli, Allan. Prefeitura Municipal de Teresópolis; Brasil

Fil: Puker, Anderson. Instituto Federal de Educação Ciência E Tecnologia de R; Brasil

Fil: Ferreira, André da S.. Universidade Federal de Pernambuco; Brasil

Fil: Santos, Paula B. dos. Universidade Federal do Vale do São Francisco; Brasil

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Fil: Smith, Trevor R.. Florida State Collection of Arthropods; Estados Unidos

Fil: Costa Silva, Vinicius da. University of Pretoria; Sudáfrica

Fil: Sandoval Gómez, Vivian E.. Horticulture And Forestry Science; Australia

Fil: Sousa, Wesley O. de. Universidade Federal Do Recôncavo Da Bahia; Brasil

Fil: Tomaszewska, Wioletta. Polish Academy of Sciences; Argentina