Skip to main content Skip to main navigation menu Skip to site footer
Responsive image
Issue: Vol. 1716 No. 1: 29 Feb. 2008
Type: Article
Published: 2008-02-29
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1716.1.3
Page range: 35–43
Abstract views: 70
PDF downloaded: 26

First record of the genus Myrmedonota Cameron (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae) from North America, with descriptions of two new species

Department of Zoology, Field Museum of Natural History, 1400 South Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL 60605-2496 USA The Kyushu University Museum, Hakozaki 6-10-1, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka-shi, Fukuoka-ken, 812-8581 Japan
Department of Biological Sciences, Kent State University, Kent, OH 44242 USA
Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Forest Service, Laurentian Forestry Centre 1055, rue du P.E.P.S., Case postale 10380, succ./Stn. Sainte-Foy, Québec (Québec) Canada G1V 4C7
Coleoptera Aleocharinae Lomechusini Myrmedonota Nearctic myrmecophily

Abstract

The lomechusine genus Myrmedonota Cameron is recorded from North America for the first time. Myrmedonota is diagnosed, and two new species, M. aidani Maruyama & Klimaszewski, sp. nov., and M. lewisi Maruyama & Klimaszewski, sp. nov., are described and illustrated. Bionomical information is provided for both new species.

References

  1. Ashe, J.S. (2001) Keys to the tribes and genera of Nearctic Aleocharinae. In: Arnett, R. H. & Thomas, M. C. (Eds), American Beetles. 1. Archostemata, Myxophaga, Adephaga, Polyphaga: Staphyliniformia. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, USA, pp. 299–374.

    Bourguignon, T. & Roisin, Y. (2006) A new genus and three new species of termitophilous staphylinids (Coleoptera: Staplylinidae) associated with Schedorhinotermes (Isoptera: Rhinotermitidae) in New Guinea. Sociobiology, 48, 395–407.

    Cameron, M. (1920) New species of Staphylinidae from Singapore. Part III. Transactions of the Entomological Society, London, 1920, 212–274.

    Kistner, D.H. (2003) A new species of Myrmedonota from Papua-New Guinea with the first specific host record (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae, Lomechusini). Sociobiology, 42, 519–532.

    Klimaszewski, J., Pelletier, G., Maruyama, M. & HlaváÖ, P. (2005) Canadian species of the Zyras group of genera and review of the types from America north of Mexico (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Aleocharinae). Revue Suisse de Zoologie, 122(3), 703–733.

    Mayr, G. (1862) Myrmecologische Studien. Verhandlungen der k. k. zoologish-botanischen Gessellschaft in Wien, 12, 649–776.

    Maruyama, M. (2006) Revision of the Palearctic species of the myrmecophilous genus Pella (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Aleocharinae). National Science Museum Monographs, 32, 1–207.

    Mulsant, E. & Rey C. (1873) Histoire naturelle des coléoptères de France: Brévipennes. Aléochariens (Suite) [Septième branche, myrmédoniaires, Part 1]. Deyrolles, Paris, 695 pp., pls. 1–5.

    Stephens, J.F. (1835) Illustrations of British Entomology; or, a synopsis of indigenous insects; containing their generic and specific distinctions; with an account of their metamorphoses, times of appearance, localities, food, and economy, as far as practicable. Mandibulata. Vol. 5. Baldwin and Cradock, London, pp. 369–448.