Aglyptinus Cockerell

Peck, Stewart B., Gnaspini, Pedro & Newton, Alfred F., 2020, Updated catalog and generic keys of the Leiodidae (Insecta: Coleoptera) of the Neotropical region (“ Latin America ”: Mexico, the West Indies, and Central and South America), Zootaxa 4741 (1), pp. 1-114 : 83

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scientific name	Aglyptinus Cockerell
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Genus Aglyptinus Cockerell View in CoL

Aglyptinus Cockerell, 1906: 240 View in CoL (replacement name for Aglyptus LeConte View in CoL , not Förster [1856]). Type species: Colenis laevis LeConte (monotypy).

= Aglyptus LeConte, 1866: 369 View in CoL (preoccupied, not Förster [1856]). Type species: Colenis laevis LeConte (monotypy).

= Aglyptonotus Champion, 1913: 65 View in CoL (replacement name for Aglyptus LeConte View in CoL ); Hatch, 1929a: 4 syn. (not stated as taxonomic change).

Key: to species of West Indies in Peck & Cook, 2014: 41.

Distribution: 41 species—Neotropical, eastern Nearctic, England, New Guinea. Note: An undetermined (?undescribed) species from Tobago Island (of Trinidad and Tobago) (Peck et al., 2002: 12), and many undescribed species ( Seago & Wheeler, 2004: 235).

Biology: Often found on mushrooms and other epigean fungi in moist forests ( Newton, 1984).

References

Champion, G. C. (1913) Notes on various Central American Coleoptera, with descriptions of new genera and species. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London, 1913, 58 - 169, pls. 3 - 4. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1365 - 2311.1913. tb 02781. x

Cockerell, T. D. A. (1906) Preoccupied generic names of Coleoptera. Entomological News, 17, 240 - 244.

Hatch, M. H. (1929 a) The genera and subgenera of Leiodidae and Clambidae. Journal of the New York Entomological Society, 37, 1 - 6.

LeConte, J. L. (1866) Additions to the coleopterous fauna of the United States. No. 1. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philapelphia, 1866, 361 - 394.

Newton, A. F. Jr. (1984) Mycophagy in Staphylinoidea (Coleoptera). In: Wheeler, Q. & Blackwell, M. (Eds.), Fungus-insect relationships: perspectives in ecology and evolution. Columbia University Press, New York, pp. 302 - 353.

Peck, S. B. & Cook, J. (2014) A review of the small carrion beetles and the round fungus beetles of the West Indies (Coleoptera: Leiodidae), with descriptions of two new genera and 61 new species. Insecta Mundi, 0397, 1 - 76.

Seago, A. E. & Wheeler, Q. D. (2004) Two new species of Aglyptinus Cockerell with unusual sexually dimorphic antennae and diffraction gratings (Coleoptera: Leiodidae). Coleopterists Bulletin, 58, 235 - 244. https: // doi. org / 10.1649 / 613