title: Review of Scirtidae (Coleoptera: Scirtoidea) described by Johan Christian Fabricius (1745-1808).
abstract: Scirtidae described by J. Ch. Fabricius are listed. Poorly known South American and Indian species are redescribed, illustrated and figured. Cyphon depressus Fabricius is transferred to Ora Clark, and Cistela livida Fabricius is transferred to Pseudomicrocara Armstrong. Ora complanata (Guerin-Meneville) is probably a junior synonym of Ora depressa (Fabricius). Data on Scirtidae collections studied by Fabricius are summarized.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Taxonomy, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Wroclaw, Przybyszewskiego 63/ 77, 51-148 Wroclaw, Poland. scirtes@biol.uni.wroc.pl
authors.forename: Ruta
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Rafal
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D044822:Biodiversity; D001517:Coleoptera / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D004772:Entomology / Q000266:history*; D005260:Female; D049671:History, 18th Century; D049672:History, 19th Century; D008297:Male