Review of the Palaearctic genera of Saprininae (Coleoptera: Histeridae)
Author
Lackner, Tomáš
text
Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae
2010
suppl.
2010-10-20
50
1
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journal article
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10.5281/zenodo.4272127
724cb358-6f18-4816-afc7-bb42cb9b6942
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Euspilotus
Lewis, 1907
Euspilotus
Lewis, 1907: 320
.
Type
species:
Euspilotus zonalis
Lewis, 1907
, by original designation.
Euspilotus
:
BICKHARDT (1916)
: 81
, 83;
WENZEL (1962)
: 375
;
KRYZHANOVSKIJ & REICHARDT (1976)
: 111
, 124;
VIENNA
(1980)
: 126
;
MAZUR & KASZAB (1980)
: 6
, 47;
MAZUR (1984)
: 64
;
DOWNIE & ARNETT (1996)
: 607
, 608;
MAZUR (1997)
: 232
;
BOUSQUET & LAPLANTE (1999)
: 142
, 158;
MAZUR (2001)
: 20
, 31;
KOVARIK & CATERINO (2001)
: 221
, 223;
YÉLAMOS (2002)
: 245
, 293;
MAZUR (2004)
: 91
;
BOUSQUET & LAPLANTE (2006)
: 80
, 121.
Distribution.
This species-rich genus is distributed across North, Central and South America where it, with 76 described species, dominates the
Saprininae
subfamily. Two additional species of the subgenus
Neosaprinus
Bickhardt, 1909
have been described from the Palaearctic and
Oriental
Regions
, respectively (see below for details) (
MAZUR 1997
).