The buprestid beetles from Northwest Spain (Coleoptera, Buprestidae)

Abstract

In this paper a faunistic study of species of family Buprestidae Leach, 1815 from north-western part of Spain has been realized, including the following provinces: La Coruña, Lugo, Orense, Pontevedra, Asturias, Cantabria, Vizcaya, Guipúzcoa, Álava, Navarra, La Rioja, Soria, Burgos, Palencia, León, Valladolid, Zamora y Salamanca. New data of 79 taxa (sp. and ssp.), recorded for the first time from several spanish provinces, are included. With the bibliographic and new data brought out, the knowledge about distribution of 103 taxa are updated. A check-list of species containing the provinces, new localities and bibliographic references where the species are cited, is given. Moreover, corrections to the nomenclature of some taxa studied in the present work are done.