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Issue: Vol. 63 No. 1: 15 Apr. 2025
Type: Article
Published: 2025-04-15
DOI: 10.12976/jib/2025.63.1.1
Page range: 1-21
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Description of the larvae and pupa of Cotinis lebasi (Gory & Percheron, 1833) and Hoplopyga foeda (Schaum, 1848) (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Cetoniinae) from Colombia

Instituto de investigación de recursos biológicos Alexander von Humboldt, Claustro de San Agustín, Villa de Leyva, Boyacá, Colombia
Instituto de investigación de recursos biológicos Alexander von Humboldt, Claustro de San Agustín, Villa de Leyva, Boyacá, Colombia
Insect Collection, Pan‐American Agricultural School, Zamorano, Honduras
Immature Stages Morphology Taxonomy Biofertilizer Ethnoentomology

Abstract

The third instar larva and pupa of Cotinis lebasi (Gory & Percheron, 1833) and Hoplopyga foeda (Schaum, 1848) from Colombia are described, and data about their natural history are presented. The importance of the leaf‐cutter ant Atta colombica Guérin‐Méneville, 1844 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) waste, where the immature stages of C. lebasi develop, in the tropical forests of the Chocó Biogeographic region is discussed. A key for the identification of the third instar larvae of Gymnetini from the American continents is provided.

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