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The beetle fauna of Croatia is diverse, but poorly studied. The longhorn beetles are among the few families for which there exists a checklist, albeit almost 50 years old. Since then, there have been many changes in taxonomy and several previously neglected/alien species have been found for the country. Henceforth an update is needed. To do this, a review of all available literature was performed, several private and institutional entomological collections were checked, and new records were collected in the field. All collected data was pooled into a database, taxon names were updated and from this an updated preliminary checklist was created. The list was compared with the Catalogue of Palearctic Coleoptera, and with the published checklists for neighbouring countries. Several species were recorded for the first time for Croatia, and the presence of some species was reaffirmed for the country. Through recent research many species were photographed. These will be used in the creation of a digital, publicly available repository, with distribution maps – a basis for the future Atlas and red listing of Croatian Cerambycidae. |
