An Annotated Catalog of the Leiodidae (Coleoptera) of the Nearctic Region (Continental North America North of Mexico)

Newton, Alfred F.

doi:10.1649/0010-065x-71.2.211

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“…However, it seems likely that the host is Ptomaphagus brevior Jeannel, 1949. This species has a wide distribution in North America and, more importantly, it is the single species of Ptomaphagus that has been reported from Illinois to date 39 . The three other species—† Columnomyces electri , Columnomyces hispaniolensis , and Columnomyces peckii —are associated with three Caribbean species of Proptomaphaginus (Ptomaphagini, Ptomaphaginina): † Columnomyces electri with † Proptomaphaginus alleni in Hispaniola; Columnomyces hispaniolensis with the eponymous extant species Proptomaphaginus hispaniolenis in Hispaniola; and Columnomyces peckii with the extant Proptomaphaginus puertoricensis in Puerto Rico.…”

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A parasitic coevolution since the Miocene revealed by phase-contrast synchrotron X-ray microtomography and the study of natural history collections

Perreau

Haelewaters

Tafforeau

2021

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The discovery of a new fossil species of the Caribbeo-Mexican genus Proptomaphaginus (Coleoptera, Leiodidae, Cholevinae) from Dominican amber, associated with a new fossil parasitic fungus in the genus Columnomyces (Ascomycota, Laboulbeniales), triggered an investigation of extant species of Proptomaphaginus and revealed the long-enduring parasitic association between these two genera. This effort resulted in the description of the fossil species †Proptomaphaginus alleni sp. nov., and one fossil and two extant species of Columnomyces, selectively associated with species of Proptomaphaginus: †Columnomyces electri sp. nov. associated with the fossil †Proptomaphaginus alleni in Dominican amber, Columnomyces hispaniolensis sp. nov. with the extant Proptomaphaginus hispaniolensis (endemic of Hispaniola), and Columnomyces peckii sp. nov. with the extant Proptomaphaginus puertoricensis (endemic of Puerto Rico). Based on biogeography, our current understanding is that the Caribbean species of Proptomaphaginus and their parasitic species of Columnomyces have coevolved since the Miocene. This is the first occurrence of such a coevolution between a genus of parasitic fungus and a genus of Coleoptera. The phylogenetic relations among Proptomaphaginus species are also addressed based on a parsimony analysis. Fossil specimens were observed by propagation phase-contrast synchrotron X-ray microtomography (PPC-SRμCT) and extant specimens were obtained through the study of preserved dried, pinned insects, attesting for the importance of (i) technological advancement and (ii) natural history collections in the study of microparasitic relationships.

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A parasitic coevolution since the Miocene revealed by phase-contrast synchrotron X-ray microtomography and the study of natural history collections

Perreau

Haelewaters

Tafforeau

2021

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“…Identifications were made with dissections of males, which is necessary for most Leiodidae, and compared with characters and illustrations in revisionary literature. See Peck and Newton (2017) for details of this literature and keys for identification. Uncertain identifications (usually isolated females) are not reported here.…”

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“…The previously known state-province ranges for the species reported here were summarized in Bousquet et al . (2013) and Peck and Newton (2017).…”

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New State, Province, Territory, and Northern Distributional Records of Nearctic Leiodidae (Coleoptera)

Cook¹

2023

The Coleopterists Bulletin

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New state, province, territory, and northern records are given for Nearctic Leiodidae. The new records are for the genera Nemadus Thomson (Cholevinae, Anemadini); Catops Paykull (Cholevinae, Cholevini); Colon Herbst (Coloninae); Agathidium Panzer, Anisotoma Panzer (Leiodinae, Anisotomini); Anogdus LeConte, Cyrtusa Erichson, Leiodes Latreille, Liocyrtusa Daffner (Leidodinae, Leiodini); ColenisErichson (Leiodinae, Pseudoliodini); Hydnobius Schmidt, Macrohydnobius Peck and Cook, Pseudotriarthron Normand, and Triarthron Märkel (Leiodinae, Sogdini).

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“…Most members of the consobrinus-and cavernicola-groups are fully eyed (macrophthalmic), winged, and have large distribution ranges. Various lineages within all three groups are either facultative cave dwellers (eutroglophiles) or obligatory cave dwellers (troglobionts) (Sket 2008, Peck andNewton 2017). The trend toward cave-dwelling is most pronounced in the 19 species of the hirtus-group.…”

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Mitochondrial sequence data indicate “Vicariance by Erosion” as a mechanism of species diversification in North American Ptomaphagus (Coleoptera, Leiodidae, Cholevinae) cave beetles

Leray¹,

Caravas²,

Friedrich³

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Small carrion beetles (Coleoptera: Leiodidae: Cholevinae) are members of cave communities around the world and important models for understanding the colonization of caves, adaptation to cave life, and the diversification of cave-adapted lineages. We developed a molecular phylogeny to examine the diversification of the hirtus-group of the small carrion beetle genus Ptomaphagus. The hirtus-group has no surface-dwelling members; it consists of 19 short-range endemic cave- and soil-dwelling species in the central and southeastern United States of America. Taxonomic, phylogenetic and biogeographic data were previously interpreted to suggest the hirtus-group diversified within the past 350,000 years through a series of cave colonization and speciation events related to Pleistocene climate fluctuations. However, our time-calibrated molecular phylogeny resulting from the analysis of 2,300 nucleotides from five genes across three mitochondrial regions (cox1, cytb, rrnL-trnL-nad1) for all members of the clade paints a different picture. We identify three stages of diversification in the hirtus-group: (1) ~10 million years ago (mya), the lineage that develops into P.shapardi, a soil-dwelling species from the Ozarks, diverged from the lineage that gives rise to the 18 cave-obligate members of the group; (2) between 8.5 mya and 6 mya, seven geographically distinct lineages diverged across Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia; six of these lineages represent a single species today, whereas (3) the ‘South Cumberlands’ lineage in Tennessee and Alabama diversified into 12 species over the past ~6 my. While the events triggering diversification during the first two stages remain to be determined, the distributions, phylogenetic relationships and divergence times in the South Cumberlands lineage are consistent with populations being isolated by vicariant events as the southern Cumberland Plateau eroded and fragmented over millions of years.

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An Annotated Catalog of the Leiodidae (Coleoptera) of the Nearctic Region (Continental North America North of Mexico)

Cited by 10 publications

References 139 publications

A parasitic coevolution since the Miocene revealed by phase-contrast synchrotron X-ray microtomography and the study of natural history collections

A parasitic coevolution since the Miocene revealed by phase-contrast synchrotron X-ray microtomography and the study of natural history collections

New State, Province, Territory, and Northern Distributional Records of Nearctic Leiodidae (Coleoptera)

Mitochondrial sequence data indicate “Vicariance by Erosion” as a mechanism of species diversification in North American Ptomaphagus (Coleoptera, Leiodidae, Cholevinae) cave beetles

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