A5040699865- Coleoptera Taxonomy and Distribution
- Lepidoptera: Biology and Taxonomy
- Scarabaeidae Beetle Taxonomy and Biogeography
- Fossil Insects in Amber
- Coleoptera: Cerambycidae studies
- Forest Insect Ecology and Management
- Avian ecology and behavior
- Plant and animal studies
- Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Botany and Plant Ecology Studies
- Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies
- Mediterranean and Iberian flora and fauna
- Evolution and Paleontology Studies
- Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
- Invertebrate Taxonomy and Ecology
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Entomological Studies and Ecology
- History of Science and Natural History
- Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology
- Mollusks and Parasites Studies
- Ichthyology and Marine Biology
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Parasite Biology and Host Interactions
- Plant Ecology and Taxonomy Studies
Field Museum of Natural History
2015-2024
Theodore Roosevelt High School
1996-2013
Universidad de Guadalajara
2013
State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy
2012
Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology
2012
Chinese Academy of Sciences
2012
Clemson University
1988
Nova Scotia Department of Agriculture
1988
Harvard University
1975-1982
Northeast Catholic College
1887-1903
We synthesize data on all known extant and fossil Coleoptera family-group names for the first time. A catalogue of 4887 (124 fossil, 4763 extant) based 4707 distinct genera in is given. total 4492 are available, 183 which permanently invalid because they a preoccupied or suppressed type genus. Names listed classification framework. recognize as valid 24 superfamilies, 211 families, 541 subfamilies, 1663 tribes 740 subtribes. For each name, original spelling, author, year publication, page...
In order to infer phylogenetic relationships within the extraordinarily speciesrich Coleoptera, a cladistic analysis is performed, in which 516 adult and larval morphological characters are scored for 359 beetle taxa, representing 314 families or subfamilies plus seven outgroup taxa holometabolan orders. Many features discussed at length with accompanying illustrations, an attempt made homologize these employ uniform set of terms throughout order. The resulting data matrix analyzed using...
Abstract Here we present a phylogeny of beetles ( I nsecta: C oleoptera) based on DNA sequence data from eight nuclear genes, including six single‐copy protein‐coding for 367 species representing 172 183 extant families. Our results refine existing knowledge relationships among major groups beetles. Strepsiptera was confirmed as sister to oleoptera and each the suborders recovered monophyletic. Interrelationships suborders, namely P olyphaga A dephaga rchostemata, M yxophaga)), in our study...
Species distribution models (SDMs) are numerical tools that combine observations of species occurrence or abundance with environmental estimates. They used to gain ecological and evolutionary insights predict distributions across landscapes, ...Read More
A checklist of all described species Philonthina, a subtribe the staphylinid tribe Staphylinini, known to occur in Central and South America (CASA) is presented. Included for each species, synonyms from CASA, reference original description, type locality depository, distribution within outside CASA. Type material was sought main European American collections where it deposited (BMNH, MNHUB, IRSNB FMNH) summarized indigenous CASA with lectotypes designated 16 names confirmation holotypes...
Beetles constitute the most biodiverse animal order with over 380 000 described species and possibly several million more yet unnamed. Recent phylogenomic studies have arrived at considerably incongruent topologies widely varying estimates of divergence dates for major beetle clades. Here, we use a dataset 68 single-copy nuclear protein-coding (NPC) genes sampling 129 out 193 recognized extant families as well first comprehensive set fully justified fossil calibrations to recover refined...
This paper presents an updated catalog of all taxa Leiodidae (s.lat.) reported from the Neotropical Region. Keys are presented for identification subfamilies, tribes, and 62 described genera. Three undescribed genera included in keys. A total 600 valid named species listed, with type localities, depositories, synonyms, distributions, biologies where known, some unnamed as recorded literature. Many remain to be described. In this work we formally establish no new synonyms combinations...
Ant-like stone beetles (Coleoptera: Scydmaenidae) include more than 4,850 described species in about 90 genera maintained as a separate cosmopolitan family since 1815.Recent authors have hypothesised that Scydmaenidae might be rooted deep inside rove-beetles (Staphylinidae).To test this hypothesis we analysed 206 parsimoniously informative larval and adult morphological characters scored for 38 taxa.Strict consensus topologies from the shortest trees all 12 analyses consistently placed...
Abstract The beetle series S taphyliniformia exhibits extraordinary taxonomic, ecological and morphological diversity. To gain further insight into staphyliniform relationships evolution, we reconstructed the phylogeny of using DNA sequences from nuclear 28S rDNA protein‐coding gene CAD for 282 species representing all living families most subfamilies, a representative sample carabaeiformia serving as near outgroup, three additional beetles more distant outgroups. Under both B ayesian...
The genus Ontholestes Ganglbauer includes 35 species distributed mainly in Eurasia, with a few additional Africa and North South America (Herman, 2001; Yang Zhou, 2012; Smetana Shavrin, 2013; Rougemont, 2016). According to Asenjo et al. (2013), the American record of Palearctic murinus (Linnaeus, 1758) for Brazil made by J. Guérin (1953) seems doubtful. was recorded first time outside Palaearctic region (1981), from Newfoundland, Canada, as an adventive (e.g., Downie Arnett, 1996; Brunke...
Significance We report on the unique discovery of Jurassic and Cretaceous carrion beetles (Silphidae) from China Myanmar, early relatives one most protected beetle species in North America, which clearly preserve evidence indicative complex parental care. This finding represents earliest care, a behavioral repertoire that is first step development truly social behavior intensely studied by ecologists, ethologists, evolutionary biologists alike. Our fossils span origins parent–offspring...
Abstract Triassic fossils are rare but crucial for understanding the early evolution of large insect clades including beetles (Coleoptera). Their phylogenetic assignment is problematic because fragmentary preservation, yet correct use information they provide. Here an analysis presented position Leehermania prorova , Late compressed fossil which was described and hitherto widely used as oldest representative Staphylinidae (rove beetles) in suborder Polyphaga. By contrast with intuitive...
The origin and early evolutionary history of polyphagan beetles have been largely based on evidence from the derived diverse 'core Polyphaga', whereas little is known about species-poor basal lineages, which include Scirtoidea (Clambidae, Decliniidae, Eucinetidae, Scirtidae) Derodontidae. Here, we report two new species Acalyptomerus thayerae sp. nov. Sphaerothorax uenoi nov., both belonging to extant genera Clambidae, mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber. has a close affinity A. herbertfranzi,...
Evidence as to the fact of island Rodriguez in Indian Ocean having been formerly inhabited by a Didine bird specifically distinct from true Dodo Mauritius ( Didus ineptus , Linn.) appears have first satisfactorily adduced 1844 late Hugh Edwin Strickland. It is that, eighty years ago, Gmelin, his edition ‘Systema Naturæ’ Linnæus (tom. i. p. 728), described scientific language, account given Leguat (with which he was apparently acquainted only at second hand through intervention Buffon),...
Abstract This study surveys the external morphology of mouthparts in guild spore‐feeders among coleopterous superfamily Staphylinoidea, evaluating influence different phylogenetic and ecological starting points on formation their mouthparts. Our emphasis is a scanning electron microscope analysis (SEM) involved trophic structures spore‐feeding larvae adults Ptiliidae, Leiodidae Staphylinidae, describing fine structure main functional elements. Functionally, mouthpart resemble brushes,...