First Record of two species of Coleoptera in a quinoa cultivar in Amaicha del Valle, Tucumán (Argentina),

VALOY, MARIANA; BRUNO, MARCELA; PRADO, FERNANDO E.; GONZALEZ, JUAN A.

San Miguel de Tucumàn

Jornada; Jornadas Científicas de la Asociación de biología de Tucumán; 2009

This research was carried out in an experimental cultivar of quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa Willd) in the fields owned by INTA in Encalilla (Amaicha de Valle, 1978 m a.s.l.) with the intention of reintroducing it as a feeding alternative in the intermontane valleys of the Northwest of Argentina (NOA).Information already exists about the insect fauna associated with quinoa, but it corresponds to the high Bolivian plateaus (3500 m a.s.l.) and to ecologically equivalent regions of Peru and Ecuador, while in the case of the northern region of Argentina information is very limited.Manual collection of specimens was carried out monthly with a basic insect net at day time. After their identification and comparison with the existing data from the research area, the results obtained indicated the following coleoptera: Epicauta adspersa Klug, Epicauta