''Besoiro'' is a French entomological

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. It is published by Patrick Arnaud and was established in 1995. The name means beetle in Portuguese. The taxa described are included in the

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. Following the cessation of publication of the ''

Bulletin de la Société Sciences Nat The ''Bulletin de la Société Sciences Nat'' was a French entomological scientific journal. It was published by Sciences Nat and established in 1972. History Initially, the ''Bulletin'' was sent free of charge to French entomologists. Starti ...

'' in 1995, the journals ''Besoiro'' and '' Coléoptères'' were founded to accommodate some of the manuscripts that would have gone to the older journal.

Authors

The authors are amateur entomologists from different countries: Canada, Costa-Rica, France, Japan, Madagascar, Venezuela, West Indies. They are mainly Patrick Arnaud (

Cetoniinae Flower chafers are a group of scarab beetles, comprising the subfamily Cetoniinae. Many species are diurnal and visit flowers for pollen and nectar, or to browse on the petals. Some species also feed on fruit. The group is also called fruit an ...

Lucanidae Stag beetles are a family of about 1,200 species of beetles in the family Lucanidae, currently classified in four subfamilies.Smith, A.B.T. (2006). A review of the family-group names for the superfamily Scarabaeoidea (Coleoptera) with corrections ...

and

Scarabaeidae The family Scarabaeidae, as currently defined, consists of over 30,000 species of beetles worldwide; they are often called scarabs or scarab beetles. The classification of this family has undergone significant change in recent years. Several sub ...

), Hugues Bomans (Lucanidae), Tetsuo Miyashita (

Dynastinae Dynastinae or rhinoceros beetles are a subfamily of the scarab beetle family (Scarabaeidae). Other common names – some for particular groups of rhinoceros beetles – include Hercules beetles, unicorn beetles or horn beetles. Over 1 ...

and Lucanidae),

Marc Soula Marc Soula (27 April 1945 – 23 February 2012) was a French entomologist. He was born in Oran (French Algeria) and died in Lima (Peru). Published works The majority of Soula's publications dealt with scarab beetles of the subfamily Rutelinae. ...

(

Rutelinae Rutelinae or shining leaf chafers is a subfamily of the scarab beetles (family Scarabaeidae). It is a very diverse group; distributed over most of the world, it contains some 200 genera with over 4,000 described species in 7 tribes. A few recent ...

). Lydie Arnaud described several new Membracidae. The journal is not peer reviewed.

Composition and production

Each volume contains one or several works. Black and white figures and colour photographs illustrate the publications. The bulletin is produced on

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(21 x 29.7 cm). They are produced by ink jet, as this might last longer than laser photocopies. Each issue is produced at about 50 copies, of which some are sent to beetle specialists and about 20 copies are made available for sale. When an issue is exhausted, a reissue is produced.

New taxa

In the first 19 issues, a total of about 100 new taxa were described in this journal.''Besoiro'': List of the taxa described in the 19 issues
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References

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