The Bark-Gnawing Beetles of Montana, USA (Coleoptera: Trogossitidae, Peltidae, and Lophocateridae), Including New Substantial Distributional Records for Tenebroides collaris (Sturm)
Author
Kippenhan, Michael G.
text
The Coleopterists Bulletin
2022
2022-12-20
76
4
569
576
http://dx.doi.org/10.1649/0010-065x-76.4.569
journal article
10.1649/0010-065X-76.4.569
1938-4394
13252779
PeLtIS
Müller, 1764
This genus is restricted to the Northern Hemisphere. Three species are known from the
United States
, none of which were recorded as occurring in
Montana
by
Barron (1971
,
1996
).
Barron’s (1971)
lack of
Montana
records, however, was most likely an artifact of collecting as he indicated that species of this genus are widely distributed in the western
United States
and
Canada
.
Barron (1996)
reviewed Nearctic
Peltis
(as
Ostoma
Laicharting
), and changed certain names he had used previously (
Barron 1971
): the Nearctic members of his 1971 Holarctic
Ostoma ferruginea
(Linnaeus)
were recognized as
Ostoma fraterna
(Randall)
, while
Ostoma columbiana
Casey
was placed as a junior synonym of
Ostoma septentrionalis
(Randall)
, thus leaving only
Ostoma pippingskoeldi
(Mannerheim)
unchanged among the Nearctic fauna. Although
Kolibáč (2013)
cited
Barron (1996)
, he missed these nomenclatural changes, and used
Barron’s (1971)
interpretation in his checklist. This should be considered a
lapsus calami
, not a nomenclatural change, as
Kolibáč (2013)
did not include
Barron (1996)
in his synonymical table. I therefore follow
Barron’s (1996)
species-level taxonomy here.
Kolibáč (2013)
stated that all species of
Peltis
are fungivorous.