Agathidium Panzer
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Genus Agathidium Panzer View in CoL
Agathidium Panzer, 1797 : no. 13. Type species: Tetratoma globosa Herbst [1792] (= Silpha seminulum Linnaeus [1758] , syn. in ?? [already by Gyllenhal 1810: 573] (by monotypy). Note: Proposed as nomen protectum by provision of ICZN 1999: Art. 23.9 ( Wheeler & Miller, 2005: 34).
= Volvoxis Kugelann, 1794: 535 View in CoL (not preoccupied by Volvox Linnaeus [1758] , Chlorophyta). Type species: Tetratoma globosa Herbst (= Silpha seminulum Linnaeus [1758] by subsequent designation of Newton, 1998: 95 (10 species in original description). Note: Proposed as nomen oblitum by provision of ICZN 1999: Art. 23.9 ( Wheeler & Miller, 2005: 34) due to lack of use as a valid name after 1899.
= Agathidium Illiger, 1798: 81 View in CoL (unnecessary replacement name for Volvoxis Kugelann [1794] View in CoL (in part), incorrectly assumed to be preoccupied by Volvox Linnaeus [1758] ). Type species: Tetratoma globosa Herbst [1792] (= Silpha seminulum Linnaeus [1785] ), fixed by autotypy as replacement name for Volvoxis View in CoL . Note: It is not clear if Illiger intended to propose a new generic name here; he did not refer the generic name to Panzer (1797), although he did refer to Panzer’s (1797: 13) species treatment of Agathidium globosum . The above treatment assumes it was an intentional proposal of a new name to replace Volvoxis View in CoL .
Note 1: Volvoxis Kugelann View in CoL has priority for the name of this genus, but this name was rejected and replaced with Agathidium by Illiger (1798) in the mistaken belief that Volvoxis View in CoL was preoccupied by Volvox Linnaeus , and this replacement name became generally accepted. However, Panzer (1797) had already used Agathidium in the same sense a year earlier, without explanation. Illiger (1798) made no mention of Panzer’s (1797) use of Agathidium so these have often been treated as independent names (e.g., Newton, 1998: 95 – 96), with Panzer’s name having priority and Illiger’s name being a junior homonym of it. All three names have the same type species as indicated above, and thus are objective synonyms. Wheeler & Miller (2005: 34) cited Article 23.9 of the Code ( ICZN, 1999) to set aside priority and accept Agathidium Panzer as the valid name for the genus (nomen protectum) and treat Volvoxis View in CoL as a forgotten name (nomen oblitum). Agathidium has been attributed to both Panzer and Illiger at various times, sometimes (by accident) even in the same publication (see Newton, 1998: 94, 95), but Panzer, 1797 is correct.
Note 2: Revised in Hlisnikovský (1964a) and Miller & Wheeler (2005b) and Wheeler & Miller (2005).
Note 3: Wheeler & Miller (2005) abandoned the use of subgenera and proposed a system of species groups, as used below, which may have some relationship to previously established subgenera. Most Mexican and Central American species are in the oniscoides species group. The rich species diversity of Mexico and Central America is obviously only partly known.
Key: to species groups in Wheeler & Miller, 2005: 37.
Distribution: 822 spp.—Holarctic, Africa, Oriental, northern Neotropical.
Note 4— Species wrongly reported for the Neotropics:
A. exiguum Melsheimer [1844] —The record of A. californicum Horn [1880] [= A. exiguum, Miller & Wheel- er, 2005b: 156 syn] for Guatemala (Quiché Mts., 7000 – 9000 ft.) in Matthews, 1887: 75 is a misidentification
of an unknown different species ( Miller & Wheeler, 2005b: 160).
A. oniscoides Palisot de Beauvois [1805] View in CoL —The record of Matthews, 1887: 74 for Mexico (Jacala, Hidalgo State) is in error (a misidentification, in Miller & Wheeler, 2005b: 151 View Cited Treatment ).
Biology: Usually in forested habitats and on slime molds ( Hatch, 1957; Russell, 1979; Newton, 1984; Wheeler, 1987, 1990).
Hatch, M. H. (1957) The beetles of the Pacific Northwest. Part II. Staphyliniformia. University of Washington Publications in Biology, 16, i-ix + 1 - 384.
Hlisnikovsky, J. (1964 a) Monographische bearbeitung der gattung Agathidium Panzer (Coleoptera). Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Prague, Supplementum 5, 3 - 239.
Horn, G. H. (1880) Synopsis of the Silphidae of the United States with reference to the genera of other countries. Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 8, 219 - 319, pls. 5 - 7. https: // doi. org / 10.2307 / 25076393
ICZN (International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature) (1999) International Code of Zoological Nomenclature. Fourth edition. London. International Trust for Zoological Nomenclature. Available from: http: // www. iczn. org / iczn / index. jsp (accessed 24 September 2019)
Illiger, J. K. W. (1798) Verzeichniss der Kafer Preussens. J. J. Gebauer, Halle, xlii + 510 pp.
Kugelann, J. G. (1794) Verzeichniss der in einigen Gegenden Preussens bis jetzt entdeckten Kaefer-Arten nebst kurzen Nachrichten von denselben. Neuestes Magazin fur die Liebhaber der Entomologie, 1, 513 - 582.
Matthews, A. (1887 - 88) Fam. Silphidae. In: Biologia Centrali-Americana. Insects. Coleoptera. Vol. 2 (1). Taylor & Francis, London, pp. 72 - 101, pl. 3.
Miller, K. B. & Wheeler, Q. D. (2005 b) Slime-mold beetles of the genus Agathidium Panzer in North and Central America, Part II. Coleoptera: Leiodidae. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 291, 1 - 167. https: // doi. org / 10.1206 / 0003 - 0090 (2005) 291 <0001: SBOTGA> 2.0. CO; 2
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.
Newton, A. F. Jr. (1998) Phylogenetic problems, current classification and generic catalog of World Leiodidae (including Cholevidae). Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali di Torino Atti, 8, 41 - 177.
Panzer, G. W. (1797) Fauna insectorum Germanicae initia oder deutschlands Insekten. Heft 37. Felssecker, Nurnberg.
Russell, L. K. (1979) Beetles associated with slime molds (Mycetozoa) in Oregon and California (Coleoptera: Leiodidae, Sphindidae, Lathridiidae). Pan-Pacific Entomologist, 55, 1 - 9.
Wheeler, Q. D. (1987) A new species of Agathidium associated with an epimycetic slime mold plasmodium on Pleurotus fungi (Coleoptera: Leiodidae-Myxomycetes: Physarales-Basidiomycetes: Tricholomataceae). Coleopterists Bulletin, 41, 395 - 403.
Wheeler, Q. D. (1990) Morphology and ontogeny of postembryonic larval Agathidium and Anisotoma (Coleoptera: Leiodidae). American Museum Novitates, 2986, 1 - 46.
Wheeler, Q. D. & Miller, K. B. (2005) Slime-mold beetles of the genus Agathidium Panzer in North and Central America, Part I. Coleoptera: Leiodidae. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 290, 1 - 95. https: // doi. org / 10.1206 / 0003 - 0090 (2005) 290 <0001: SBOTGA> 2.0. CO; 2
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Coloninae |
Agathidium Panzer
Peck, Stewart B., Gnaspini, Pedro & Newton, Alfred F. 2020 |
Agathidium
Illiger, J. K. W. 1798: 81 |
Panzer, G. W. 1797: 13 |
Volvoxis
Wheeler, Q. D. & Miller, K. B. 2005: 34 |
Newton, A. F. Jr. 1998: 95 |
Kugelann, J. G. 1794: 535 |
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