Records of Ora obliqua and Scirtes thoracicus (Champion, 1897) (Coleoptera: Scirtidae) in Panama

Resumen

When George Champion published Biologia Centrali Americana in 1897, he described 6 species of the genus Ora Clark, 1865 and 21 species of Scirtes Illiger, 1807 in Central America. Worldwide, these two genera represent the largest diversity of saltatorial Scirtids comprising of approximately 400 species (Ruta 2007). However, their distribution and diversity in the neotropics are poorly known (Lawrence & Yoshitomi 2007; Ruta 2007; Epler 2010; Yoshitomi & Ruta 2010). Blackwelder (1944) described an inventory of the beetles from Mexico through South America based on Champion’s data including 6 genera and 40 species of scirtid beetles.