Conservation status of the forest beetles (Insecta, Coleoptera) from Azores, Portugal.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Island biodiversity is under considerable pressure due to the ongoing threats of invasive alien species, land use change or climate change. The few remnants of Azorean native forests harbour a unique set of endemic beetles, some of them possibly already extinct or under severe long term threat due to the small areas of the remaining habitats or climatic changes. In this contribution we present the IUCN Red List profiles of 54 forest adapted beetle species endemic to the Azorean archipelago, including species belonging to four speciose families: Zopheridae (12 species), Carabidae (11 species), Curculionidae (11 species) and Staphylinidae (10 species).

New information

Most species have a restricted distribution (i.e. 66% occur in only one island) and a very small ex

SUBMITTER: Borges PAV 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5665008 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature