Dutch Caribbean Species Register

In February and March 2020 Jan-Joost Mekkes visited St. Eustatius to collect various insect groups. The beetles collected during this trip were identified by Ed Colijn. Forty-six species could be identified to genus or species level. Twenty-one of these were new for the island and 15 even for the Dutch Antilles. This research brings the number of beetle species currently known to occur on St. Eustatius to 117, which is about a quarter of the number of species expected to be present on the island. There still remains al lot to be discovered.