Peltis, Muller, 1764, Muller, 1764

Kippenhan, Michael G., 2022, The Bark-Gnawing Beetles of Montana, USA (Coleoptera: Trogossitidae, Peltidae, and Lophocateridae), Including New Substantial Distributional Records for Tenebroides collaris (Sturm), The Coleopterists Bulletin 76 (4), pp. 569-576 : 574

PeLtIS Müller, 1764

This genus is restricted to the Northern Hemisphere. Three species are known from the United States, none of which were recorded as occurring in Montana by Barron (1971, 1996). Barron’s (1971) lack of Montana records, however, was most likely an artifact of collecting as he indicated that species of this genus are widely distributed in the western United States and Canada.

Barron (1996) reviewed Nearctic Peltis (as Ostoma Laicharting ), and changed certain names he had used previously ( Barron 1971): the Nearctic members of his 1971 Holarctic Ostoma ferruginea (Linnaeus) were recognized as Ostoma fraterna (Randall) , while Ostoma columbiana Casey was placed as a junior synonym of Ostoma septentrionalis (Randall) , thus leaving only Ostoma pippingskoeldi (Mannerheim) unchanged among the Nearctic fauna. Although Kolibáč (2013) cited Barron (1996), he missed these nomenclatural changes, and used Barron’s (1971) interpretation in his checklist. This should be considered a lapsus calami, not a nomenclatural change, as Kolibáč (2013) did not include Barron (1996) in his synonymical table. I therefore follow Barron’s (1996) species-level taxonomy here. Kolibáč (2013) stated that all species of Peltis are fungivorous.