First record of the family Cucujidae (Insecta: Coleoptera) from Vietnam with a checklist and a key to species currently known from Indochinese Peninsula

Jaskuła, Radomir; Michalski, Marek; Acal, Dale Ann P.

doi:10.1080/00305316.2020.1839589

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“…The flat bark beetles (Coleoptera: Cucujidae) are a small insect family with only about 70 species distributed worldwide except Africa, polar regions, and numerous oceanic islands [ 23 , 73 , 74 , 75 , 76 , 77 , 78 , 79 , 80 , 81 , 82 , 83 , 84 , 85 , 86 ]. Among them, only members of genera Cucujus Fabricius, 1775, and Pediacus Shuckard, 1839, are known from North America, with the single species, Cucujus clavipes Fabricius, 1781, representing the first genus [ 76 , 77 , 86 ].…”

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From Phenology and Habitat Preferences to Climate Change: Importance of Citizen Science in Studying Insect Ecology in the Continental Scale with American Red Flat Bark Beetle, Cucujus clavipes, as a Model Species

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Michalski

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The American red flat bark beetle, Cucujus clavipes, is a wide distributed saproxylic species divided into two subspecies: ssp. clavipes restricted to eastern regions of North America and ssp. puniceus occurring only in western regions of this continent. Unique morphological features, including body shape and body coloration, make this species easy to recognize even for amateurs. Surprisingly, except some studies focused on physiological adaptations of the species, the ecology of C. clavipes was almost unstudied. Based on over 500 records collected by citizen scientists and deposited in the iNaturalist data base, we studied phenological activity of adult beetles, habitat preferences and impact of future climate change for both subspecies separately. The results clearly show that spp. clavipes and ssp. puniceus can be characterized by differences in phenology and macrohabitat preferences, and their ranges do not overlap at any point. Spp. clavipes is found as more opportunistic taxon occurring in different forests as well as in urban and agricultural areas with tree vegetation always in elevations below 500 m, while elevational distribution of ssp. puniceus covers areas up to 2300 m, and the beetle was observed mainly in forested areas. Moreover, we expect that climate warming will have negative influence on both subspecies with the possible loss of proper niches at level even up to 47–70% of their actual ranges during next few decades. As the species is actually recognized as unthreatened and always co-occurs with many other species, we suggest, because of its expected future habitat loss, to pay more attention to conservationists for possible negative changes in saproxylic insects and/or forest fauna in North America. In addition, as our results clearly show that both subspecies of C. clavipes differ ecologically, which strongly supports earlier significant morphological and physiological differences noted between them, we suggest that their taxonomical status should be verified by molecular data, because very probably they represent separate species.

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From Phenology and Habitat Preferences to Climate Change: Importance of Citizen Science in Studying Insect Ecology in the Continental Scale with American Red Flat Bark Beetle, Cucujus clavipes, as a Model Species

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“…The flat bark beetles ( Coleoptera : Cucujidae ) form a small insect family which includes five genera and almost 70 species and is distributed worldwide, except for Africa, Antarctica, most of the oceanic islands and the greater part of the Arctic ( Thomas 2003 , Lee and Satô 2007 , Lee and Pütz 2008 , Horák and Chobot 2009 , Lee and Thomas 2011 , Bonacci et al 2012 , Marris and Ślipiński 2014 , Bussler 2017 , Marris 2017 , Háva et al 2019 , Zhao and Zhang 2019 , Hsiao 2020 , Jaskuła et al 2020 , Jin et al 2020 ). The South American cucujid fauna is represented by two genera belonging to the subfamily Platisinae : Palaestes Perty, 1830 and Thesaurus Jin, Zwick, Ślipiński, Marris, Thomas & Pang 2020.…”

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First records of the Palaestes abruptus Sharp, 1899 and P. nicaraguae Sharp, 1899 (Coleoptera: Cucujidae) from South America, with a checklist of flat bark beetles from the continent

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Michalski²,

Marris³

2021

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The flat bark beetles (Coleoptera: Cucujidae) is a small insect family with only about 70 species. Most of the species are distributed in Holarctic, Oriental and/or Australasian realms, while in South America, only six species have been recorded, including a single one known from Peru. Two cucujid beetle species, Palaestes abruptus Sharp, 1899 and P. nicaraguae Sharp, 1899, are recorded from South America for the first time. The species are recorded from the Pasco (P. abruptus) and Cusco and Junín (P. nicaraguae) Regions of Peru, based, in part, on data collected through the iNaturalist citizen science database. Habitats of both species are presented in photographs for the first time. A country-level checklist to Cucujidae species currently known from South America is provided.

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Flat bark beetles vs. citizen science, episode III: filling the gaps in diversity and distribution of Cucujidae (Coleoptera) in the Korean Peninsula

Jaskuła

Ganse

Michalski

et al. 2022

Journal of Asia-Pacific Biodiversity

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First record of the family Cucujidae (Insecta: Coleoptera) from Vietnam with a checklist and a key to species currently known from Indochinese Peninsula

Cited by 4 publications

References 9 publications

From Phenology and Habitat Preferences to Climate Change: Importance of Citizen Science in Studying Insect Ecology in the Continental Scale with American Red Flat Bark Beetle, Cucujus clavipes, as a Model Species

From Phenology and Habitat Preferences to Climate Change: Importance of Citizen Science in Studying Insect Ecology in the Continental Scale with American Red Flat Bark Beetle, Cucujus clavipes, as a Model Species

First records of the Palaestes abruptus Sharp, 1899 and P. nicaraguae Sharp, 1899 (Coleoptera: Cucujidae) from South America, with a checklist of flat bark beetles from the continent

Flat bark beetles vs. citizen science, episode III: filling the gaps in diversity and distribution of Cucujidae (Coleoptera) in the Korean Peninsula

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