Skip to main content Skip to main navigation menu Skip to site footer
Type: Article
Published: 2019-09-10
Page range: 151–182
Abstract views: 121
PDF downloaded: 7

New species of Eucinetus and Noteucinetus from Australia (Coleoptera: Scirtoidea: Eucinetidae)

Australian National Insect Collection, CSIRO, Canberra and 61 Glenbar Road, The Palms, QLD, Australia.
Coleoptera Scirtoidea Eucinetidae

Abstract

Two new species of Noteucinetus Bullians & Leschen and 12 new species of Eucinetus Germar are described from continental Australia and Tasmania. A key is given to the two genera and all described Australian species. The following new species are described: Eucinetus bicolor, sp. nov., Eucinetus bicolorellus, sp. nov., Eucinetus brindabellae, sp. nov., Eucinetus dorrigo, sp. nov., Eucinetus limitaris sp. nov., Eucinetus lorien, sp. nov., Eucinetus minutus, sp. nov., Eucinetus nebulosus, sp. nov., Eucinetus protibialis, sp. nov., Eucinetus similis, sp. nov., Eucinetus tasmaniae, sp. nov., Eucinetus tropicus, sp. nov., Noteucinetus ornatus, sp. nov., and Noteucinetus victoriae, sp. nov.

 

References

  1. Bocak, L., Barton, C., Crampton-Platt, A., Chesters, D., Ahrens, D. & Vogler, A.P. (2014) Building the Coleoptera tree-of-life for >8000 species: composition of public DNA data and fit with Linnaean classification. Systematic Entomology, 39, 97–110.

    https://doi.org/10.1111/syen.12037

    Böving, A.G. & Craighead, F.C. (1931) An illustrated synopsis of the principal larval forms of the order Coleoptera. Entomologica Americana, New Series, 11 (1930), 1–351.

    https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.6818

    Broun, T. (1881) Manual of the New Zealand Coleoptera. Part II. Colonial Museum & Geological Survey Department, Wellington, viii + 92 + iii pp. [pp. i–viii + 653–744 pp. + xxi–xxiii.

    Broun, T. (1893) Manual of the New Zealand Coleoptera. Parts V, VI & VII. Colonial Museum & Geological Survey Department, Wellington, xvii + 530 pp. [pp. i–xvii + 975–1504 pp.]

    Bruns, T.D. (1984) Insect mycophagy in Boletales: Fungivore diversity and the mushroom habitat. In: Wheeler, Q. & Blackwell, M. (Eds.), Fungus-Insect Relationships: Perspectives in Ecology and Evolution. Columbia University Press, New York, pp. 91–129.

    Bullians, M.S. & Leschen, R.A.B. (2004) Noteucinetus new genus from New Zealand and Chile and notes on Eucinetus stewarti (Broun) (Coleoptera: Eucinetidae). New Zealand Entomologist, 27, 29–38.

    https://doi.org/10.1080/00779962.2004.9722121

    Crosby, T.K., Dugdale, J.S. & Watt, J.C. (1998) Area codes for recording specimen localities in the New Zealand subregion. New Zealand Journal of Zoology, 25 (2), 175–183.

    https://doi.org/10.1080/03014223.1998.9518148

    Duftschmid, C. (1825) Fauna Austriae, oder Beschreibung der österreichischen Insekten für angehende Freunde der Entomologie. Dritter Theil. Akademie Buchhandlung, Linz, 289 pp.

    Germar, E.F. (1818) Vermischte Bemerkungen über einige Käferarten. Magazin der Entomologie, 3, 228–260.

    Hoebeke, E.R., Wheeler, Q.D. & Gilbertson, R.L. (1987) Second Eucinetidae-Coniophoraceae association (Coleoptera; Basidiomycetes), with notes on the biology of Eucinetus oviformis LeConte (Eucinetidae) and two species of Endomychidae. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 89, 215–218.

    Hunt, T., Bergsten, J., Levkanicova, Z., Papadopoulou, A., St. John, O., Wild, R., Hammond, P.M., Ahrens, D., Balke, M., Caterino, M.S., Gómez-Zurita, J., Ribera, I., Barraclough, T.G., Bocakova, M., Bocak, L. & Vogler, A.P. (2007) A comprehensive phylogeny of beetles reveals the evolutionary origins of a superradiation. Science, 318 (5858), 1913–1916.

    https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1146954

    Jałoszynski, P. (2019) †Cretohlezkus gen. nov. from Upper Cretaceous Burmese amber demonstrates ancient origins of suctorial mouthparts in Eucinetidae (Coleoptera: Scirtoidea). Cretaceous Research, 100, 126–133.

    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.2019.03.016

    Kirejtshuk, A.G. & Ponomarenko, A.G. (2010) A new coleopterous family Mesocinetidae fam. nov. (Coleoptera: Scirtoidea) from the Late Mesozoic and notes on fossil remains from Shar-Teg (Upper Jurassic, South-Western Mongolia). Zoosytematica Rossica, 19 (2), 301–325.

    Kusy, D., Motyka, M., Andujar, C., Bocek, M., Masek, M., Sklenarova, K., Kokas, F., Bocakova, M., Vogler, A.P. & Bocak, L. (2018) Genome sequencing of Rhinorhipus Lawrence exposes an early branch of the Coleoptera. Frontiers in Zoology, 15 (21), 1–14.

    https://doi.org/10.1186/s12983-018-0262-0

    Lawrence, J.F. (1988) Rhinorhipidae, a new beetle family from Australia, with comments on the phylogeny of the Elateriformia. Invertebrate Taxonomy, 2 (1987), 1–53.

    https://doi.org/10.1071/IT9880001

    Lawrence, J.F. (1991) Eucinetidae (Eucinetoidea). In: Stehr, F.W. (Ed.), Immature Insects. Vol.2. Kendall/Hunt, Dubuque, Iowa, pp. 364–365.

    Lawrence, J.F. (2001) A new genus of Valdivian Scirtidae (Coleoptera) with comments on Scirtoidea and the beetle suborders. In: Morimoto, K., Mizuno, K., Hayashi, Y., Ito, T., Ito, N., Ando, K., Tanikado, M. & Shiyake, S. (Eds.), Sukunahikona. Special Publication No. 1. The Japan Coleopterological Society, Osaka, pp. 351–361.

    Lawrence, J.F. & Newton, A.F. (1980) Coleoptera associated with the fruiting bodies of slime moulds (Myxomycetes). The Coleopterists Bulletin, 34 (2), 129–143.

    Lawrence, J.F. & Ślipiński, A. (2013) Australian Beetles. Vol. 1. Morphology, Classification and Keys. CSIRO Publishing, Collingwood, Victoria, viii + 561 pp.

    https://doi.org/10.1071/9780643097292

    Lawrence, J.F. & Yoshitomi, H. (2007) Nipponocyphon, a new genus of Japanese Scirtidae and its phylogenetic significance. Elytra, Tokyo, 35 (2), 507–527.

    Lawrence, J.F., Nikitsky, N.B. & Kirejtshuk, A.G. (1995) Phylogenetic position of Decliniidae (Coleoptera: Scirtoidea) and comments on the classification of Elateriformia (sensu lato). In: Pakaluk, J. & Ślipiński, S.A. (Eds.), Biology, Phylogeny, and Classification of Coleoptera: Papers Celebrating the 80th Birthday of Roy A. Crowson. Muzeum i Instytut Zoologii, Polska Akademia Nauk, Warsaw, pp. 375–410.

    Lawrence, J.F., Ślipiński, A., Seago A.E., Thayer, M.K., Newton, A.F. & Marvaldi, A.E. (2011) Phylogeny of the Coleoptera based on morphological characters of adults and larvae. Annales Zoologici, 61 (1), 1–217.

    https://doi.org/10.3161/000345411X576725

    Leschen, R.A.B. (2016) 10.2 Eucinetidae Lacordaire, 1857. In: Beutel, R.G. & Leschen, R.A.B. (Eds.), Handbook of Zoology. Vol. IV. Arthropoda: Insecta. Coleoptera, Vol. 1: Morphology and Systematics (Archostemata, Adephaga, Myxophaga, Polyphaga partim). 2nd Edition. Walter De Gruyter, Berlin/New York, pp. 206–210.

    McKenna, D.D., Wild, A.L., Kanda, K., Bellamy, C.L., Beutel, R.G., Caterino, M.S., Farnum, C.W, Hawks, D.C., Ivie, M.S., Jameson, M.L., Leschen, R.A.B., Marvaldi, A.E., McHugh, J.V., Newton, A.F., Robertson, J.A., Thayer, M.K., Whiting, M.F., Lawrence, J.F., Ślipiński, A., Maddison, D.R. & Farrell, B.D. (2015) The beetle tree of life reveals that Coleoptera survived end-Permian mass extinction to diversify during the Cretaceous terrestrial revolution. Systematic Entomology, 40 (4), 835–880.

    https://doi.org/10.1111/syen.12132

    Timmermans, M.J.T.N., Barton, C., Haran, J., Ahrens, D., Culverwell, C.L., Ollikainen, A., Dodsworth, S., Foster, P.G., Bocak, L. & Vogler, A.P. (2015) Family-level sampling of mitochondrial genomes in Coleoptera: compositional heterogeneity and phylogenetics. Genome Biology and Evolution, 8 (1), 161–175.

    https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evv241

    Vit, S. (1977a) Contribution à la connaissance du genre Eucinetus Germar (Coleoptera, Eucinetidae). Revue Suisse de Zoologie, 84 (4), 443–451.

    https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.part.91398

    Vit, S. (1977b) Contribution à la connaissance des Eucinetidae (Coleoptera). Revue Suisse de Zoologie, 84 (4), 917–935.

    https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.part.91368

    Vit, S. (1981) Une nouvelle espèce du genre Tohlezkus Vit de Taiwan (Coleoptera, Eucinetidae). Revue Suisse de Zoologie, 88 (3), 769–774.

    https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.part.82406

    Vit, S. (1983) Eucinetus nutellus sp. n. de l’Afrique occidentale (Coleoptera, Eucinetidae). Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici, Pars Zoologica, 75, 163–168.

    Vit, S. (1985) Etude de la morphologie des espèces paléarctiques du genre Eucinetus Germar et quelques remarques sur son utilisation taxonomique (Coleoptera Eucinetidae). Revue Suisse de Zoologie, 92 (2), 421–460.

    https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.part.81624

    Vit, S. (1990) Révision des espèces néotropicales du genre Eucinetus Germar (Coleoptera: Eucinetidae). Le Naturaliste Canadienne, 117, 103–122.

    Vit, S. (1996) Deux espèces nouvelles d’Eucinetidae d’Amérique du Nord particulièrement intéressantes (Coleoptera: Eucinetidae). Elytron, 9 (1995), 125–137.

    Vit, S. (1999) Sur les genres Nycteus Latreille, 1829, et Eucinetus Germar, 1818 (Coleoptera, Eucinetidae). Mitteilungen der Schwizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft, 72, 387–394.

    Vit, S. (2000) Contribution à la connaissance de la famille Eucinetidae (Coleoptera). Revue Suisse de Zoologie, 107 (1), 123–138.

    https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.part.80122

    Wheeler, Q.D. & Hoebeke, E.R. (1984) A review of mycophagy in the Eucinetoidea (Coleoptera), with notes on an association of the eucinetid beetle, Eucinetus oviformis, with a Coniophoraceae fungus (Basidiomycetes: Aphyllophorales). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 86 (2), 274–277.

    Zhang, S.Q., Che, L.H., Yun, L., Liang, D., Pang, H., Ślipiński, A. & Zhang, P. (2018) Evolutionary history of Coleoptera revealed by extensive sampling of genes and species. Nature Communications, 9 (205), 11.

    https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-02644-4