INSECTA COLEOPTERA SCARABAEIDAE RUTELINAE RUTELINI

I actually work on the ANTICHEIRINA subtribe, which are splendid and fascinating insects.
For the whole Revision that I carry on, I receive holotypes from the main Museums and many other specimens, which are sent to me by public or private collections.

This subtribe included, since the work of my famous German predecessor, Doctor Ohaus, the genera such as Anticheira, Macraspis, Chlorota, Thyridium, Ptenomela, Chasmodia... These superb genera are well known among entomologists interested in the neotropical fauna.

These last years of research and determination allowed me to noticibly enlarge this above subtribe. The number of genera and the number of species is now doubled (to reach today up to 40 genera and as many as 900 species).

Among these new species these pictures are three holotypes among the most beautiful specimens recently registered at National Museum in Paris :

ANTICHEIRINA   Pseudothyridium (Megathyridium)  n. subgen

These three magnificient large specimens (over 1 inch) are the only representatives found today !

A tremendous amount of work remains to be done, as for discovering new taxons than for studying their biology, almost unknown.
However we are actually very few people working on the neotropical representatives of the Family. I will name principally :

These insects essentially crawling in Atlantic forests, Amazonian forests and Andean high-altitude forests up to about 4000 m, each year I go on an expedition to the South or Central America.

Rutelinae being widely distributed and having both diurnal and nocturnal manners, entomologists meet them frequently whatsoever the way of observation or capture they use.
In addition, if their grubs are saproxylophagous, imagos are whether floricolous or phytophagous.

Everybody interested can contact me :     e-mail: marc.soula@freesbee.fr

at your disposal for determining your specimens, I am also acutely interested in exchanges and in all kind of information you could provide on those insects biology.

Future prospects :

- carrying on my work on ANTICHEIRINA,
- carrying on my study of the Guyana tableland RUTELINAE,
- starting shortly the revision of the LASIOCALINA Andean subtribe for which I actually begin to collect material.

Publications :

In the very fine series :

Volumes 26, 29, 31 (yet published), rich presentation with a number of splendid color pages of the types of all known species with a shortened text (English - French), about the whole sub-tribe.
These main illustrated volumes are accompagnied with three technical books (26,1; 26,2; 26,3) presenting the determination keys and detailed description of genders and species (with different designs)

N.B. This superb collection "Coléoptères du Monde" is now edited in England by "Hillside Books", who has also taken the very interesting  "Coléoptères" publication