<documentid="F51A12671251C13AFB6CD921222089DA"ID-CLB-Dataset="298205"ID-DOI="10.5281/zenodo.11372978"ID-GBIF-Dataset="946c0307-42af-48cb-b318-07d0f18d7731"ID-ISSN="1989-6581"ID-Zenodo-Dep="11372978"IM.bibliography_approvedBy="juliana"IM.illustrations_approvedBy="juliana"IM.metadata_approvedBy="juliana"IM.taxonomicNames_approvedBy="juliana"IM.treatments_approvedBy="juliana"checkinTime="1716921010558"checkinUser="felipe"docAuthor="Valcárcel, Javier Pérez & Piloña, Fernando Prieto"docDate="2013"docId="B362D236FFB1FFFEFC9FFDDF0AABFBC2"docLanguage="en"docName="ArqEntomol.8.1-13.pdf"docOrigin="Arquivos Entomolóxicos 8"docStyle="DocumentStyle:4A598260C82DE055F667271F04A73235.2:ArqEntomol.2008-.journal_article.2column"docStyleId="4A598260C82DE055F667271F04A73235"docStyleName="ArqEntomol.2008-.journal_article.2column"docStyleVersion="2"docTitle="Agyrtes (Agyrtecanus) bicolor Laporte, de Slavkovsky 1840"docType="treatment"docVersion="3"lastPageNumber="8"masterDocId="4F5BAA4EFFB5FFFAFFAEFFAE0960FF88"masterDocTitle="La familia Agyrtidae Thomson, 1859 (Coleoptera) en la Península Ibérica. The family Agyrtidae Thomson, 1859 (Coleoptera) in the Iberian Peninsula."masterLastPageNumber="13"masterPageNumber="1"pageNumber="5"updateTime="1717790308454"updateUser="ExternalLinkService">
<mods:titleid="64DA9E89147738F095BCAB20BDC33801">La familia Agyrtidae Thomson, 1859 (Coleoptera) en la Península Ibérica. The family Agyrtidae Thomson, 1859 (Coleoptera) in the Iberian Peninsula.</mods:title>
<taxonomicNameid="FCCB18A3FFB1FFFEFC9FFDDF0C16FD04"ID-CoL="5TV2Y"authority="Laporte, 1840"authorityName="Laporte, de Slavkovsky"authorityYear="1840"box="[817,1398,625,653]"class="Insecta"family="Agyrtidae"genus="Agyrtes"kingdom="Animalia"order="Coleoptera"pageId="4"pageNumber="5"phylum="Arthropoda"rank="species"species="bicolor"subGenus="Agyrtecanus">
<bibRefCitationid="5F5A1ED1FFB1FFFEFC21FD130C7DFD5F"author="PARDO ALCAIDE & YUS"box="[911,1309,701,727]"firstAuthor="PARDO ALCAIDE"pageId="4"pageNumber="5"pagination="93 - 111"refId="ref7974"refString="PARDO ALCAIDE, A. & YUS, R. 1975. Genera de Coleopteros de la Peninsula Iberica. Familia Silphidae. Graellsia, 30: 93 - 111."type="journal article"year="1975">PARDO ALCAIDE & YUS (1975)</bibRefCitation>
set out a vague note on the occurrence of this species in the Iberian Peninsula in the
</emphasis>
<emphasisid="09BFBF32FFB1FFFEFB06FCA80AF5FCCF"bold="true"pageId="4"pageNumber="5">Enciclopedia de las Ciencias</emphasis>
<bibRefCitationid="5F5A1ED1FFB1FFFEFBD0FC830C28FCCE"author="FUENTE"box="[1150,1352,813,838]"firstAuthor="FUENTE"pageId="4"pageNumber="5"pagination="22 - 25"refId="ref7549"refString="FUENTE, J. M. de la. 1925. Catalogo sistematico-geografico de los coleopteros observados en la Peninsula Iberica, Pirineos propiamente dichos y Baleares (continuacion). Boletin de la Sociedad entomologica de Espana, 8: 22 - 25."type="journal article"year="1925">FUENTE (1925)</bibRefCitation>
includes a record from the Eastern Pyrenees, with no precise location, by Xambeu. Probably he refers to records published by
<bibRefCitationid="5F5A1ED1FFB1FFFEFB2FFC330C33FC3E"author="XAMBEU"box="[1153,1363,925,950]"firstAuthor="XAMBEU"pageId="4"pageNumber="5"pagination="121 - 122"refId="ref8624"refString="XAMBEU, V. 1891. Contributions aux faunes locales des regions de l'Est et du Sud-Est. L'Echange, Revue Linneenne, 7 (83): 121 - 122."type="journal article"year="1891">XAMBEU (1891)</bibRefCitation>
, who recorded this species from the locality of Prades
<emphasisid="09BFBF32FFB1FFFEFC22FC490AABFBC2"bold="true"pageId="4"pageNumber="5">, in those French Eastern Pyrenees. We could not find any Iberian material belonging to this species.</emphasis>
<taxonomicNameid="FCCB18A3FFB3FFFCFC9FF8DE0DDDF803"authority="Laporte, 1840"authorityName="Laporte, de Slavkovsky"authorityYear="1840"box="[817,1213,1904,1932]"class="Insecta"family="Agyrtidae"genus="Agyrtes"kingdom="Animalia"order="Coleoptera"pageId="6"pageNumber="7"phylum="Arthropoda"rank="species"species="bicolor">
<figureCitationid="A3F07FA5FFB3FFFCFB7FF8DC0C75F803"box="[1233,1301,1906,1931]"captionStart="Fig"captionStartId="11.[153,189,1901,1921]"captionTargetId="figure-49@12.[235,545,1516,1991]"captionTargetPageId="12"captionText="Fig. 4.- Agyrtes bicolor Laporte, de Slavkovský les (Bohemia Occ., Rep. Checa). Foto de JAn RůžičkA. Fig. 4.- Agyrtes bicolor Laporte, from Slavkovský les (Western Bohemia, Czech Rep.). Photo by Jan RůžičkA."figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11521620"httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/11521620/files/figure.png"pageId="6"pageNumber="7">fig. 4</figureCitation>
<taxonomicNameid="FCCB18A3FFB3FFFCFCD2F8140A97F85E"authorityName="Laporte, de Slavkovsky"authorityYear="1840"box="[892,1015,1978,2006]"class="Insecta"family="Agyrtidae"genus="Agyrtes"kingdom="Animalia"order="Coleoptera"pageId="6"pageNumber="7"phylum="Arthropoda"rank="species"species="bicolor">
is also distributed along central and western Europe, with eastern boundary in Romania and the western one in France (
<bibRefCitationid="5F5A1ED1FFB2FFFDFAEFFF750A8EFE92"author="SCHAWALLER, W."pageId="7"pageNumber="8"pagination="399 - 405"refId="ref8415"refString="SCHAWALLER, W. 1978. Eine neue Agyrtes- Art aus dem Kashmir-Himalaya mit erganzenden Bermerkungen zur Gattung (Insecta: Coleoptera: Silphidae). Senckenbergiana biologica., 59 (5 / 6): 399 - 405."type="journal article"year="1978">SCHAWALLER, 1978</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitationid="5F5A1ED1FFB2FFFDFC55FF510DA6FE92"author="RUZICKA, J."box="[1019,1222,255,284]"pageId="7"pageNumber="8"pagination="131 - 132"refId="ref8266"refString="RUZICKA, J. 2004. Agyrtidae, pp. 131 - 132. En I. L ˆ bl & A. Smetana (eds.): Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Vol. 2. Hydrophiloidea - Histeroidea - Staphylinoidea. Stenstrup: Apollo Books, 942 pp."type="book chapter"year="2004">RŮŽIČKA, 2004</bibRefCitation>
<emphasisid="09BFBF32FFB2FFFDFCD2FE880C4EFE5C"bold="true"pageId="7"pageNumber="8">The knowledge of its biology is scarce, as the preceding species, but with distinctive features. It was reported its autumn activity under moss, bark of rotten wood, and decaying fungi and ferns, in the winter in nests of</emphasis>
<bibRefCitationid="5F5A1ED1FFB2FFFDFC94FDAB0A9DFD96"author="ROUBAL"box="[826,1021,517,543]"firstAuthor="ROUBAL"pageId="7"pageNumber="8"pagination="59 - 66"refId="ref8230"refString="ROUBAL, J. 1947. O trech vyznAcnych A vzacnych zimnich broucich prAzske zvireny. (Sur trois rAres Coleopteres- hivernaux Pragois). CAsopis Ceske Spolecnosti Entomologicke, 44: 59 - 66."type="journal article"year="1947">ROUBAL, 1947</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitationid="5F5A1ED1FFB2FFFDFBBEFDAB0DC4FD96"author="PECK, S. B."box="[1040,1188,517,543]"pageId="7"pageNumber="8"pagination="501 - 506"refId="ref8046"refString="PECK, S. B. 1974. A review of the Agyrtes (Silphidae) of North America. Psyche, 81: 501 - 506."type="journal article"year="1974">PECK, 1974</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitationid="5F5A1ED1FFB2FFFDFB16FDAB0CECFD96"author="NEWTON"box="[1208,1420,517,543]"firstAuthor="NEWTON"pageId="7"pageNumber="8"pagination="111 - 156"refId="ref7934"refString="NEWTON, A. F. 1997. Review of Agyrtidae (Coleoptera), with a new genus and species from New Zealand. Annales Zoologici Warszawa, 47 (1 / 2): 111 - 156."type="journal article"year="1997">NEWTON, 1997</bibRefCitation>
). It has also been found in droppings of solipeds or beating bushes (
<bibRefCitationid="5F5A1ED1FFB2FFFDFBA8FDE10DADFDE0"author="XAMBEU, V."box="[1030,1229,591,616]"pageId="7"pageNumber="8"pagination="121 - 122"refId="ref8624"refString="XAMBEU, V. 1891. Contributions aux faunes locales des regions de l'Est et du Sud-Est. L'Echange, Revue Linneenne, 7 (83): 121 - 122."type="journal article"year="1891">XAMBEU, 1891</bibRefCitation>
) and, this very winter, in pitfall traps placed near to a rivershore (
<bibRefCitationid="5F5A1ED1FFB2FFFDFC6DFD370C6DFD3B"author="COURTIN, O. & CORTI, R."box="[963,1293,665,691]"pageId="7"pageNumber="8"pagination="163 - 165"refId="ref7326"refString="COURTIN, O. & CORTI, R. 2012. Agyrtes (Agyrtecanus) bicolor Laporte de Castelnau, 1840: une espece bien implAntee a l'est de Lyon (ColeopterA StAphylinoideA AgyrtidAe). L'Entomologiste, 68 (3): 163 - 165."type="journal article"year="2012">COURTIN & CORTI, 2012</bibRefCitation>
). The most striking character of its behaviour is the association as larva, pupa or adult with masses of larvae of
<figureCitationid="A3F07FA5FFB2FFFDFC61FC800D77FCCF"box="[975,1047,814,839]"captionStart="Fig"captionStartId="11.[153,189,1990,2010]"captionTargetId="figure-53@12.[792,1444,1503,1991]"captionTargetPageId="12"captionText="Fig. 5.-Grupo de larvas de bibionidae. Foto de Chris Raper, de diptera.info. Fig. 5.- Cluster of bibionid larvae. Photo by Chris Raper, from diptera.info."figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11521624"httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/11521624/files/figure.png"pageId="7"pageNumber="8">fig. 5</figureCitation>
), that appear on the surface of the soil in winter warm days (
<bibRefCitationid="5F5A1ED1FFB2FFFDFAB5FCFD0D9EFC1A"author="BERCE, J. E. & BRISOUT DE BARNEVILLE, Ch."pageId="7"pageNumber="8"pagination="5 - 6"refId="ref7008"refString="BERCE, J. E. & BRISOUT DE BARNEVILLE, Ch. 1872. [Nota no titulada]. Annales de la Societe Entomologique de France (Bulletin), (5) 2: 5 - 6."type="journal article"year="1872">BERCE & BRISOUT DE BARNEVILLE, 1872</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitationid="5F5A1ED1FFB2FFFDFAB8FCD70A12FC3F"author="PAULIAN, R."pageId="7"pageNumber="8"pagination="12 - 16"refId="ref8005"refString="PAULIAN, R. 1945. Observations biologiques et anatomiques sur Agyrtes bicolor Lap. [Col. Silphidae]. Bulletin de la Societe entomologique de France, 50 (1): 12 - 16, 6 figs."type="book chapter"year="1945">PAULIAN, 1945</bibRefCitation>
).
<bibRefCitationid="5F5A1ED1FFB2FFFDFC29FC300D3CFC3F"author="PAULIAN"box="[903,1116,926,951]"firstAuthor="PAULIAN"pageId="7"pageNumber="8"pagination="12 - 16"refId="ref8005"refString="PAULIAN, R. 1945. Observations biologiques et anatomiques sur Agyrtes bicolor Lap. [Col. Silphidae]. Bulletin de la Societe entomologique de France, 50 (1): 12 - 16, 6 figs."type="book chapter"year="1945">PAULIAN (1945)</bibRefCitation>
also adds that seemingly does not feed on larvae, stating that the nests can be a winter refuge.
<taxonomicNameid="FCCB18A3FFB2FFFDFF35FE790B47FE79"authority="Laporte, 1840"authorityName="Laporte, de Slavkovsky"authorityYear="1840"box="[155,551,471,499]"class="Insecta"family="Agyrtidae"genus="Agyrtes"kingdom="Animalia"order="Coleoptera"pageId="7"pageNumber="8"phylum="Arthropoda"rank="species"species="bicolor">
<figureCitationid="A3F07FA5FFB2FFFDFD95FE760B1FFE79"box="[571,639,472,497]"captionStart="Fig"captionStartId="11.[153,189,1901,1921]"captionTargetId="figure-49@12.[235,545,1516,1991]"captionTargetPageId="12"captionText="Fig. 4.- Agyrtes bicolor Laporte, de Slavkovský les (Bohemia Occ., Rep. Checa). Foto de JAn RůžičkA. Fig. 4.- Agyrtes bicolor Laporte, from Slavkovský les (Western Bohemia, Czech Rep.). Photo by Jan RůžičkA."figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11521620"httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/11521620/files/figure.png"pageId="7"pageNumber="8">fig. 4</figureCitation>
<taxonomicNameid="FCCB18A3FFB2FFFDFF57FDB8081DFDBA"authorityName="Laporte, de Slavkovsky"authorityYear="1840"box="[249,381,534,562]"class="Insecta"family="Agyrtidae"genus="Agyrtes"kingdom="Animalia"order="Coleoptera"pageId="7"pageNumber="8"phylum="Arthropoda"rank="species"species="bicolor">
se distribuye también por Europa central y occidental, con límite oriental en Rumanía y occidental en Francia (
<bibRefCitationid="5F5A1ED1FFB2FFFDFD31FDCC0838FD28"author="SCHAWALLER, W."pageId="7"pageNumber="8"pagination="399 - 405"refId="ref8415"refString="SCHAWALLER, W. 1978. Eine neue Agyrtes- Art aus dem Kashmir-Himalaya mit erganzenden Bermerkungen zur Gattung (Insecta: Coleoptera: Silphidae). Senckenbergiana biologica., 59 (5 / 6): 399 - 405."type="journal article"year="1978">SCHAWALLER, 1978</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitationid="5F5A1ED1FFB2FFFDFECBFD2B0B4FFD28"author="RUZICKA"box="[357,559,645,674]"firstAuthor="RUZICKA"pageId="7"pageNumber="8"pagination="131 - 132"refId="ref8266"refString="RUZICKA, J. 2004. Agyrtidae, pp. 131 - 132. En I. L ˆ bl & A. Smetana (eds.): Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Vol. 2. Hydrophiloidea - Histeroidea - Staphylinoidea. Stenstrup: Apollo Books, 942 pp."type="book chapter"year="2004">RŮŽIČKA, 2004</bibRefCitation>
<emphasisid="09BFBF32FFB2FFFDFF57FD020BECFCF7"bold="true"pageId="7"pageNumber="8">Los conocimientos sobre su biología son escasos, al igual que la especie anterior, aunque con características distintivas. Se ha señalado con actividad otoñal bajo musgo, cortezas de madera podrida, y hongos y helechos en descomposición; en invierno, en nidos de</emphasis>
<bibRefCitationid="5F5A1ED1FFB2FFFDFF0BFC1E0805FC41"author="ROUBAL"box="[165,357,944,970]"firstAuthor="ROUBAL"pageId="7"pageNumber="8"pagination="59 - 66"refId="ref8230"refString="ROUBAL, J. 1947. O trech vyznAcnych A vzacnych zimnich broucich prAzske zvireny. (Sur trois rAres Coleopteres- hivernaux Pragois). CAsopis Ceske Spolecnosti Entomologicke, 44: 59 - 66."type="journal article"year="1947">ROUBAL, 1947</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitationid="5F5A1ED1FFB2FFFDFED8FC1E0B68FC41"author="PECK"box="[374,520,944,970]"firstAuthor="PECK"pageId="7"pageNumber="8"pagination="501 - 506"refId="ref8046"refString="PECK, S. B. 1974. A review of the Agyrtes (Silphidae) of North America. Psyche, 81: 501 - 506."type="journal article"year="1974">PECK, 1974</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitationid="5F5A1ED1FFB2FFFDFDB7FC1E0B8AFC41"author="NEWTON"box="[537,746,944,970]"firstAuthor="NEWTON"pageId="7"pageNumber="8"pagination="111 - 156"refId="ref7934"refString="NEWTON, A. F. 1997. Review of Agyrtidae (Coleoptera), with a new genus and species from New Zealand. Annales Zoologici Warszawa, 47 (1 / 2): 111 - 156."type="journal article"year="1997">NEWTON, 1997</bibRefCitation>
). También ha sido encontrado bajo deyecciones de solípedos o batiendo arbustos (
<bibRefCitationid="5F5A1ED1FFB2FFFDFD80FC550B90FB9C"author="XAMBEU"box="[558,752,1019,1044]"firstAuthor="XAMBEU"pageId="7"pageNumber="8"pagination="121 - 122"refId="ref8624"refString="XAMBEU, V. 1891. Contributions aux faunes locales des regions de l'Est et du Sud-Est. L'Echange, Revue Linneenne, 7 (83): 121 - 122."type="journal article"year="1891">XAMBEU, 1891</bibRefCitation>
) y, este mismo invierno, en trampas de caída situadas a orillas de un río (
<bibRefCitationid="5F5A1ED1FFB2FFFDFE5AFBEB09BAFB0B"author="COURTIN & CORTI"firstAuthor="COURTIN"pageId="7"pageNumber="8"pagination="163 - 165"refId="ref7326"refString="COURTIN, O. & CORTI, R. 2012. Agyrtes (Agyrtecanus) bicolor Laporte de Castelnau, 1840: une espece bien implAntee a l'est de Lyon (ColeopterA StAphylinoideA AgyrtidAe). L'Entomologiste, 68 (3): 163 - 165."type="journal article"year="2012">COURTIN & CORTI, 2012</bibRefCitation>
). El carácter más llamativo de su comportamiento es su asociación como larva, pupa o adulto con masas de larvas de
<figureCitationid="A3F07FA5FFB2FFFDFD32FB740B87FB7B"box="[668,743,1242,1267]"captionStart="Fig"captionStartId="11.[153,189,1990,2010]"captionTargetId="figure-53@12.[792,1444,1503,1991]"captionTargetPageId="12"captionText="Fig. 5.-Grupo de larvas de bibionidae. Foto de Chris Raper, de diptera.info. Fig. 5.- Cluster of bibionid larvae. Photo by Chris Raper, from diptera.info."figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11521624"httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/11521624/files/figure.png"pageId="7"pageNumber="8">fig. 5</figureCitation>
), las cuales aparecen en la superficie del suelo en días templados de invierno (
<bibRefCitationid="5F5A1ED1FFB2FFFDFE53FA8A08A4FAEA"author="BERCE & BRISOUT DE BARNEVILLE"firstAuthor="BERCE"pageId="7"pageNumber="8"pagination="5 - 6"refId="ref7008"refString="BERCE, J. E. & BRISOUT DE BARNEVILLE, Ch. 1872. [Nota no titulada]. Annales de la Societe Entomologique de France (Bulletin), (5) 2: 5 - 6."type="journal article"year="1872">BERCE & BRISOUT DE BARNEVILLE, 1872</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitationid="5F5A1ED1FFB2FFFDFE7DFAE70BC1FAEA"author="PAULIAN"box="[467,673,1353,1378]"firstAuthor="PAULIAN"pageId="7"pageNumber="8"pagination="12 - 16"refId="ref8005"refString="PAULIAN, R. 1945. Observations biologiques et anatomiques sur Agyrtes bicolor Lap. [Col. Silphidae]. Bulletin de la Societe entomologique de France, 50 (1): 12 - 16, 6 figs."type="book chapter"year="1945">PAULIAN, 1945</bibRefCitation>
).
<bibRefCitationid="5F5A1ED1FFB2FFFDFD19FAE7085CFA0F"author="PAULIAN, R."pageId="7"pageNumber="8"pagination="12 - 16"refId="ref8005"refString="PAULIAN, R. 1945. Observations biologiques et anatomiques sur Agyrtes bicolor Lap. [Col. Silphidae]. Bulletin de la Societe entomologique de France, 50 (1): 12 - 16, 6 figs."type="book chapter"year="1945">PAULIAN (1945)</bibRefCitation>
también añade que aparentemente sin alimentarse de las larvas, estableciendo que los nidos puedan ser un refugio invernal.
<emphasisid="09BFBF32FFB2FFFDFCD2FBA30DF9FB68"bold="true"pageId="7"pageNumber="8">Mentions to this species, although imprecise, require consider its occurrence in the Iberian Peninsula, even for reasons of geographical proximity, at least in the Pyrenean region. In fact, it should be mentioned the existence of an imprecise old record of</emphasis>
<bibRefCitationid="5F5A1ED1FFB2FFFDFC96FABF0D4AFAA3"author="COMPANYO"box="[824,1066,1297,1323]"firstAuthor="COMPANYO"pageId="7"pageNumber="8"pagination="303 - 396"refId="ref7282"refString="COMPANYO, M. 1856. Suite du catalogue des insectes coleopteres observes dans le Departement des Pyrenees- Orientales, avec indication des localites. Bulletin de la Societe Agricole, Scientifique et Litteraire des Pyrenees- Orientales, 10: 303 - 396."type="journal article"year="1856">COMPANYO, 1856</bibRefCitation>
), that might actually belong to this species. As in the previous case, it is strange that despite the samplings taken over the years, and especially due to the attention and the sampling efforts that lately concerns to forestal entomofauna in general and saproxylophague in particular, no captures of this species have been published or these captures remain unnoticed. In this case, however, we do believe that it is not possible to make an assessment on its presence or absence until testing the systematic survey of larval winter accumulations of
<emphasisid="09BFBF32FFB2FFFDFBF1F97E0D02F8BB"bold="true"pageId="7"pageNumber="8">sp., a specific technique not implemented in the Iberian Peninsula, as far as could be investigated.</emphasis>
