313 lines
29 KiB
XML
313 lines
29 KiB
XML
<document ID-DOI="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3793088" ID-GBIF-Dataset="fa2a6380-86e0-4589-8cb9-2438a8ede5c7" ID-GBIF-Taxon="163832378" ID-ISSN="1313–2970" ID-Zenodo-Dep="3793088" checkinTime="1587994636885" checkinUser="plazi" docAuthor="Majka, Christopher & Klimaszewski, Jan" docDate="2008" docId="724E047E906FFFF1FDD7FD89FCF942BF" docLanguage="en" docName="ZK_article_1940.pdf" docOrigin="ZooKeys 2 (2)" docStyle="DocumentStylede.uka.ipd.idaho.easyIO.settings.Settings@4be9b0e2" docStyleName="zookeys.2008.journal_article" docTitle="Meotica exilis" docType="treatment" docVersion="10" lastPageId="6" lastPageNumber="157" masterDocId="8E777C06906AFFF7FFFBFFC4FFDB4438" masterDocTitle="Adventive Staphylinidae (Coleoptera) of the Maritime Provinces of Canada: further contributions" masterLastPageNumber="174" masterPageNumber="151" pageId="5" pageNumber="156" updateTime="1643570882961" updateUser="ExternalLinkService" zenodo-license-document="CC-BY-3.0">
|
||
<mods:mods xmlns:mods="http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3">
|
||
<mods:titleInfo>
|
||
<mods:title>Adventive Staphylinidae (Coleoptera) of the Maritime Provinces of Canada: further contributions</mods:title>
|
||
</mods:titleInfo>
|
||
<mods:name type="personal">
|
||
<mods:role>
|
||
<mods:roleTerm>Author</mods:roleTerm>
|
||
</mods:role>
|
||
<mods:namePart>Majka, Christopher</mods:namePart>
|
||
<mods:affiliation>Nova Scotia Museum, Halifax, NS, Canada</mods:affiliation>
|
||
</mods:name>
|
||
<mods:name type="personal">
|
||
<mods:role>
|
||
<mods:roleTerm>Author</mods:roleTerm>
|
||
</mods:role>
|
||
<mods:namePart>Klimaszewski, Jan</mods:namePart>
|
||
<mods:affiliation>Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Forest Service, Laurentian Forestry Centre, Quebec, QC, Canada</mods:affiliation>
|
||
</mods:name>
|
||
<mods:typeOfResource>text</mods:typeOfResource>
|
||
<mods:relatedItem type="host">
|
||
<mods:titleInfo>
|
||
<mods:title>ZooKeys</mods:title>
|
||
</mods:titleInfo>
|
||
<mods:part>
|
||
<mods:date>2008</mods:date>
|
||
<mods:detail type="pubDate">
|
||
<mods:number>2008-09-04</mods:number>
|
||
</mods:detail>
|
||
<mods:detail type="volume">
|
||
<mods:number>2</mods:number>
|
||
</mods:detail>
|
||
<mods:detail type="issue">
|
||
<mods:number>2</mods:number>
|
||
</mods:detail>
|
||
<mods:extent unit="page">
|
||
<mods:start>151</mods:start>
|
||
<mods:end>174</mods:end>
|
||
</mods:extent>
|
||
</mods:part>
|
||
</mods:relatedItem>
|
||
<mods:classification>journal article</mods:classification>
|
||
<mods:identifier type="DOI">10.3897/zookeys.2.5</mods:identifier>
|
||
<mods:identifier type="GBIF-Dataset">fa2a6380-86e0-4589-8cb9-2438a8ede5c7</mods:identifier>
|
||
<mods:identifier type="ISSN">1313–2970</mods:identifier>
|
||
<mods:identifier type="Zenodo-Dep">576407</mods:identifier>
|
||
</mods:mods>
|
||
<treatment ID-DOI="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3793088" ID-GBIF-Taxon="163832378" ID-Zenodo-Dep="3793088" LSID="urn:lsid:plazi:treatment:724E047E906FFFF1FDD7FD89FCF942BF" httpUri="http://treatment.plazi.org/id/724E047E906FFFF1FDD7FD89FCF942BF" lastPageId="6" lastPageNumber="157" pageId="5" pageNumber="156">
|
||
<subSubSection box="[556,894,588,616]" pageId="5" pageNumber="156" type="nomenclature">
|
||
<paragraph blockId="5.[556,894,588,616]" box="[556,894,588,616]" pageId="5" pageNumber="156">
|
||
<heading box="[556,894,588,616]" level="2" pageId="5" pageNumber="156">
|
||
<taxonomicName authority="(Knoch, 1806)" baseAuthorityName="Knoch in Gravenhorst" baseAuthorityYear="1806" box="[556,894,588,616]" class="Insecta" family="Staphylinidae" genus="Meotica" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="5" pageNumber="156" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="exilis">
|
||
<emphasis bold="true" box="[556,719,588,615]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="156">Meotica exilis</emphasis>
|
||
(Knoch, 1806)
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
</heading>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subSubSection>
|
||
<subSubSection pageId="5" pageNumber="156" type="materials_examined">
|
||
<paragraph blockId="5.[556,1108,659,1073]" pageId="5" pageNumber="156">
|
||
<materialsCitation ID-GBIF-Occurrence="2609038551" collectionCode="NSNR, LFC" pageId="5" pageNumber="156" specimenCount="1" specimenCount-male="1">
|
||
<emphasis bold="true" box="[556,940,659,685]" pageId="5" pageNumber="156">
|
||
<collectingRegion box="[556,748,659,685]" country="Canada" name="Nova Scotia" pageId="5" pageNumber="156">NOVA SCOTIA</collectingRegion>
|
||
: Colchester Co.:
|
||
</emphasis>
|
||
Shubenacadie,
|
||
<date box="[556,676,694,720]" pageId="5" pageNumber="156" value="2006-06-02">2.VI.2006</date>
|
||
, J. Ogden, flight-intercept trap, (1 female,
|
||
<collectionCode box="[624,705,730,756]" country="Canada" httpUri="http://grbio.org/cool/9yna-zgv7" name="Nova Scotia Department of Natural Resources" pageId="5" pageNumber="156">NSNR</collectionCode>
|
||
) (
|
||
<specimenCount box="[731,807,730,756]" pageId="5" pageNumber="156" type="male">1 male</specimenCount>
|
||
,
|
||
<collectionCode box="[818,875,730,756]" pageId="5" pageNumber="156">LFC</collectionCode>
|
||
)
|
||
</materialsCitation>
|
||
;
|
||
<materialsCitation ID-GBIF-Occurrence="2609038548" collectionCode="CGMC, LFC" county="Halifax Co." location="Halifax Co." pageId="5" pageNumber="156" specimenCount="1" specimenCount-male="1">
|
||
<emphasis bold="true" box="[894,1040,729,755]" pageId="5" pageNumber="156">
|
||
<collectingCounty box="[894,1034,729,755]" pageId="5" pageNumber="156">Halifax Co.</collectingCounty>
|
||
:
|
||
</emphasis>
|
||
Point Pleasant Park,
|
||
<date box="[720,828,765,791]" pageId="5" pageNumber="156" value="2003-05-06">6.V.2003</date>
|
||
, C.G. Majka, coniferous forest, under bark of dead
|
||
<taxonomicName authorityName="Linnaeus" authorityYear="1753" box="[844,985,800,826]" class="Pinopsida" family="Pinaceae" genus="Pinus" kingdom="Plantae" order="Pinales" pageId="5" pageNumber="156" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="strobus">
|
||
<emphasis box="[844,985,800,826]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="156">Pinus strobus</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
, (
|
||
<specimenCount box="[1008,1103,800,826]" pageId="5" pageNumber="156" type="female">1 female</specimenCount>
|
||
,
|
||
<collectionCode box="[556,647,835,861]" pageId="5" pageNumber="156">CGMC</collectionCode>
|
||
) (
|
||
<specimenCount box="[672,747,835,861]" pageId="5" pageNumber="156" type="male">1 male</specimenCount>
|
||
,
|
||
<collectionCode box="[758,815,835,861]" pageId="5" pageNumber="156">LFC</collectionCode>
|
||
)
|
||
</materialsCitation>
|
||
;
|
||
<materialsCitation ID-GBIF-Occurrence="2609038546" county="Hants Co." location="Hants Co." pageId="5" pageNumber="156" specimenCount="1">
|
||
<emphasis bold="true" box="[833,962,835,861]" pageId="5" pageNumber="156">
|
||
<collectingCounty box="[833,956,835,861]" pageId="5" pageNumber="156">Hants Co.</collectingCounty>
|
||
:
|
||
</emphasis>
|
||
Frenchman’s Cave,
|
||
<date box="[625,755,871,897]" pageId="5" pageNumber="156" value="1998-07-02">2.VII.1998</date>
|
||
, M. Moseley, gypsum sinkhole, (
|
||
<specimenCount box="[567,644,906,932]" pageId="5" pageNumber="156" type="male">1 male</specimenCount>
|
||
, CGMC).
|
||
</materialsCitation>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph blockId="5.[556,1108,659,1073]" lastBlockId="5.[140,1108,1082,1671]" pageId="5" pageNumber="156">
|
||
These represent the first verifiable records of this species in North America (see below) (
|
||
<figureCitation box="[1026,1090,976,1002]" captionStart="Fig" captionStartId="4.[140,174,1622,1644]" captionTargetBox="[139,1108,903,1603]" captionTargetId="figure@4.[140,1108,903,1601]" captionTargetPageId="4" captionText="Fig. 1. Distribution of Ilyobates bennetti, Meotica exilis, Meotica “pallens,” Lathrobium fulvipenne, and Oxytelus sculptus in eastern Canada." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3773938" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/3773938/files/figure.png" pageId="5" pageNumber="156">Fig. 1</figureCitation>
|
||
). The specimens collected in Point Pleasant Park were found in scolytine galleries under the bark of a dead white pine (
|
||
<taxonomicName authorityName="Linnaeus" authorityYear="1753" box="[804,947,1082,1108]" class="Pinopsida" family="Pinaceae" genus="Pinus" kingdom="Plantae" order="Pinales" pageId="5" pageNumber="156" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="strobus">
|
||
<emphasis box="[804,947,1082,1108]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="156">Pinus strobus</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
L.,
|
||
<taxonomicName authorityName="Sprengel ex F.Rudolphi" authorityYear="1830" box="[993,1096,1082,1109]" class="Pinopsida" family="Pinaceae" kingdom="Plantae" order="Pinales" pageId="5" pageNumber="156" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="family">Pinaceae</taxonomicName>
|
||
). Co-inhabiting
|
||
<taxonomicName authorityName="Linnaeus" authorityYear="1758" box="[314,439,1117,1143]" class="Insecta" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="5" pageNumber="156" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="order">Coleoptera</taxonomicName>
|
||
included
|
||
<taxonomicName authority="(Say, 1834)" baseAuthorityName="Say" baseAuthorityYear="1834" box="[562,915,1117,1143]" class="Insecta" family="Staphylinidae" genus="Nudobius" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="5" pageNumber="156" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="cephalus">
|
||
<emphasis box="[562,770,1117,1143]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="156">Nudobius cephalus</emphasis>
|
||
(Say, 1834)
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
(
|
||
<taxonomicName authorityName="Latreille, 1803-" authorityYear="1802" box="[935,1095,1117,1144]" class="Insecta" family="Staphylinidae" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="5" pageNumber="156" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="family">Staphylinidae</taxonomicName>
|
||
); and
|
||
<taxonomicName authority="(Kirby, 1837)" baseAuthorityName="Kirby" baseAuthorityYear="1837" box="[191,601,1152,1178]" class="Insecta" family="Curculionidae" genus="Polygraphus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="5" pageNumber="156" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="rufipennis">
|
||
<emphasis box="[191,436,1152,1178]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="156">Polygraphus rufipennis</emphasis>
|
||
(
|
||
<bibRefCitation author="Kirby WF" box="[453,593,1152,1178]" pageId="5" pageNumber="156" refId="ref10004" refString="Kirby WF (1837) Th e insects. In: Richardson J (Ed) Fauna boreali-Americana or the Zoology of the northern parts of British America, containing descriptions of the objects of natural history collected on the late northern land expeditions, under the command of Captain Sir John Franklin, Fletcher, RN. Norwich, xxxix + 325 pp." type="book" year="1837">Kirby, 1837</bibRefCitation>
|
||
)
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
and
|
||
<taxonomicName authority="LeConte, 1876" authorityName="LeConte" authorityYear="1876" box="[662,1108,1152,1178]" class="Insecta" family="Curculionidae" genus="Pityophthorus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="5" pageNumber="156" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="cariniceps">
|
||
<emphasis box="[662,925,1152,1178]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="156">Pityophthorus cariniceps</emphasis>
|
||
LeConte, 1876
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
(
|
||
<taxonomicName authorityName="Latreille" authorityYear="1802" box="[148,315,1187,1213]" class="Insecta" family="Curculionidae" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="5" pageNumber="156" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="family">Curculionidae</taxonomicName>
|
||
:
|
||
<taxonomicName authorityName="Latreille" authorityYear="1804" box="[324,446,1187,1214]" class="Insecta" family="Scolytinae" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="5" pageNumber="156" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="family">Scolytinae</taxonomicName>
|
||
). Th e specimen at Frenchman’s Cave was collected in a wet, mossy area in a gypsum sinkhole.
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subSubSection>
|
||
<caption ID-DOI="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3773942" ID-Zenodo-Dep="3773942" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/3773942/files/figure.png" pageId="5" pageNumber="156" startId="5.[140,174,981,1003]" targetBox="[207,456,185,937]" targetPageId="5">
|
||
<paragraph blockId="5.[140,518,981,1067]" pageId="5" pageNumber="156">
|
||
<emphasis bold="true" box="[140,212,981,1003]" pageId="5" pageNumber="156">Fig. 2.</emphasis>
|
||
Dorsal habitus photograph of
|
||
<taxonomicName authorityName="Donisthorpe" authorityYear="1914" box="[140,297,1013,1034]" class="Insecta" family="Staphylinidae" genus="Ilyobates" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="5" pageNumber="156" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="bennetti">
|
||
<emphasis box="[140,297,1013,1034]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="156">Ilyobates bennetti</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
(from Gouix and Klimaszewski 2007).
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</caption>
|
||
<subSubSection lastPageId="6" lastPageNumber="157" pageId="5" pageNumber="156" type="discussion">
|
||
<paragraph blockId="5.[140,1108,1082,1671]" pageId="5" pageNumber="156">
|
||
<bibRefCitation author="Muona J" box="[185,348,1258,1284]" pageId="5" pageNumber="156" pagination="225 - 246" refId="ref10932" refString="Muona J (1991) Th e North European and British species of the genus Meotica Mulsant & Rey (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae). Deutsche entomologische Zeitschrift N. F. 38: 225 - 246." type="book chapter" year="1991">Muona (1991</bibRefCitation>
|
||
, 239) wrote, “Small aleocharine species are often regarded as difficult to identify. However, it is doubtful (whether) there exists a species with a more confused history (than) that of
|
||
<taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="Knoch in Gravenhorst" baseAuthorityYear="1806" box="[503,653,1328,1354]" class="Insecta" family="Staphylinidae" genus="Meotica" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="5" pageNumber="156" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="exilis">
|
||
<emphasis box="[503,653,1328,1354]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="156">Meotica exilis</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
.” Prior reports of its presence in North America have proven to be no exception to this rule.
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph blockId="5.[140,1108,1082,1671]" pageId="5" pageNumber="156">
|
||
It appears to have first been reported in North America by
|
||
<bibRefCitation author="Leng CW" box="[858,1002,1399,1425]" pageId="5" pageNumber="156" refId="ref10353" refString="Leng CW (1920) Catalogue of the Coleoptera of America north of Mexico. John D. Sherman, Jr., Mount Vernon, New York, 470 pp." type="book" year="1920">Leng (1920)</bibRefCitation>
|
||
followed by
|
||
<bibRefCitation author="Bernhauer M & Scheerpeltz O" box="[178,586,1433,1460]" pageId="5" pageNumber="156" pagination="499 - 988" refId="ref9183" refString="Bernhauer M, Scheerpeltz O (1926) Staphylinidae VI. In: Junk W, Schenkling S (Eds) Coleopterum Catalogus, Pars 82. W. Junk, Berlin, 499 - 988." type="book chapter" year="1926">Bernhauer and Scheerpeltz (1926)</bibRefCitation>
|
||
. Th ese specimens were examined by
|
||
<bibRefCitation author="Seevers CH" pageId="5" pageNumber="156" pagination="1 - 289" refId="ref11215" refString="Seevers CH (1978) A generic and tribal revision of the North American Aleocharinae (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae). Fieldiana Zoology 71: 1 - 289." type="journal article" year="1978">Seevers (1978: 79)</bibRefCitation>
|
||
who wrote, “Th e record of
|
||
<taxonomicName authority="Erichson" authorityName="Erichson" box="[594,860,1469,1495]" class="Insecta" family="Staphylinidae" genus="Meotica" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="5" pageNumber="156" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="exilis">
|
||
<emphasis box="[594,747,1469,1495]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="156">Meotica exilis</emphasis>
|
||
Erichson
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
(a European species) in Maine (E. Machias, and
|
||
<collectingCountry box="[469,539,1504,1531]" name="United Kingdom" pageId="5" pageNumber="156">Wales</collectingCountry>
|
||
) is
|
||
<emphasis box="[584,680,1504,1530]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="156">probably</emphasis>
|
||
(emphasis added) a valid one. I examined the specimens in the Bernhauer collection on which the record was based and found that they do belong to
|
||
<taxonomicName authorityName="Mulsant & Rey" authorityYear="1873" box="[546,635,1575,1600]" class="Insecta" family="Staphylinidae" genus="Meotica" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="5" pageNumber="156" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
|
||
<emphasis box="[546,635,1575,1600]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="156">Meotica</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
, and are
|
||
<emphasis box="[748,844,1574,1600]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="156">probably</emphasis>
|
||
(emphasis added)
|
||
<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Staphylinidae" genus="Meotica" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="5" pageNumber="156" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="exilis">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="156">exilis</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
. These specimens
|
||
<emphasis box="[381,477,1610,1636]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="156">probably</emphasis>
|
||
(emphasis added) represent an introduction.”
|
||
<bibRefCitation author="Muona J" pageId="5" pageNumber="156" pagination="227 - 231" refId="ref10904" refString="Muona J (1984) Review of Palaearctic Aleocharinae also occurring in North America (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae). Entomologica Scandinavica 15: 227 - 231." type="journal article" year="1984">Muona (1984: 228)</bibRefCitation>
|
||
did not accept the validity of this record noting that, “
|
||
<taxonomicName authorityName="Mulsant & Rey" authorityYear="1873" box="[966,1055,1646,1671]" class="Insecta" family="Staphylinidae" genus="Meotica" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="5" pageNumber="156" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
|
||
<emphasis box="[966,1055,1646,1671]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="156">Meotica</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
is a
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph blockId="6.[140,692,166,1037]" pageId="6" pageNumber="157">
|
||
difficult genus with many species and Seevers’ (1978) statement is quite vague.”
|
||
<bibRefCitation author="Muona J" box="[523,692,202,228]" pageId="6" pageNumber="157" pagination="227 - 231" refId="ref10904" refString="Muona J (1984) Review of Palaearctic Aleocharinae also occurring in North America (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae). Entomologica Scandinavica 15: 227 - 231." type="journal article" year="1984">Muona (1984)</bibRefCitation>
|
||
also pointed out that specimens identified as
|
||
<taxonomicName box="[140,291,272,298]" class="Insecta" family="Staphylinidae" genus="Meotica" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="6" pageNumber="157" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="exilis">
|
||
<emphasis box="[140,291,272,298]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="157">Meotica exilis</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
by Fenyes from Pasadena,
|
||
<collectingRegion country="United States of America" name="California" pageId="6" pageNumber="157">California</collectingRegion>
|
||
(deposited in various European collections and at the FMNH), are in fact a species of the genus
|
||
<taxonomicName authority=", Casey. Despite" authorityName="Casey. Despite" box="[213,513,378,404]" class="Insecta" family="Staphylinidae" genus="Thecturota" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="6" pageNumber="157" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
|
||
<emphasis box="[213,331,378,404]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="157">Thecturota</emphasis>
|
||
, Casey. Despite
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
this tenuous or erroneous evidence,
|
||
<taxonomicName box="[382,481,413,439]" class="Insecta" family="Staphylinidae" genus="Meotica" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="6" pageNumber="157" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="exilis">
|
||
<emphasis box="[382,481,413,439]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="157">M. exilis</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
has continued to be included in the North America fauna in such recent compendiums as Ashe (2000).
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph blockId="6.[140,692,166,1037]" pageId="6" pageNumber="157">
|
||
The Bernhauer collection is now deposited in the Field Museum of Natural History (FMNH). Margaret Th ayer kindly checked the collection and wrote (pers. comm.) that she was able to find one pin with the label: “E. Machias,/ Me.// June//[white circle]//
|
||
<emphasis bold="true" box="[395,639,694,720]" pageId="6" pageNumber="157">
|
||
<taxonomicName authority="Grvh." authorityName="Grvh." box="[395,545,694,720]" class="Insecta" family="Staphylinidae" genus="Meotica" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="6" pageNumber="157" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="exilis">exilis Grvh.</taxonomicName>
|
||
/Fenyes
|
||
</emphasis>
|
||
/det. Bernhauer//Chicago NHMus/M.Bernhauer/”. The text in boldface is in Bernhauer’s writing, apparently relaying Fenyes as the source of the specimen, the identification, or perhaps both. However, there is no longer any specimen on the pin; the card point has been cut off. There is also no specimen from “
|
||
<collectingCountry box="[445,518,941,967]" name="United Kingdom" pageId="6" pageNumber="157">Wales</collectingCountry>
|
||
, Maine” in the FMNH collection and the present disposition of this specimen is unknown.
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<caption ID-DOI="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3773945" ID-Zenodo-Dep="3773945" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/3773945/files/figure.png" pageId="6" pageNumber="157" startId="6.[729,763,980,1002]" targetBox="[741,1094,177,931]" targetPageId="6">
|
||
<paragraph blockId="6.[729,1108,980,1034]" pageId="6" pageNumber="157">
|
||
<emphasis bold="true" box="[729,802,980,1002]" pageId="6" pageNumber="157">Fig. 3.</emphasis>
|
||
Dorsal habitus photograph of
|
||
<emphasis box="[729,858,1012,1034]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="157">
|
||
<taxonomicName box="[729,853,1012,1034]" class="Insecta" family="Staphylinidae" genus="Meotica" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="6" pageNumber="157" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="exilis">Meotica exilis</taxonomicName>
|
||
.
|
||
</emphasis>
|
||
Scale =
|
||
<quantity box="[933,992,1012,1034]" metricMagnitude="-3" metricUnit="m" metricValue="1.0" pageId="6" pageNumber="157" unit="mm" value="1.0">1 mm</quantity>
|
||
.
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</caption>
|
||
<paragraph blockId="6.[140,1108,1046,1671]" pageId="6" pageNumber="157">
|
||
Thus, all prior reports of this species in North America appear to have been based on misidentifications, or can no longer be verified because voucher specimens can no longer be located. Th erefore, the present specimens from
|
||
<collectingRegion box="[206,345,1152,1179]" country="Canada" name="Nova Scotia" pageId="6" pageNumber="157">Nova Scotia</collectingRegion>
|
||
constitute the first verifiable records of this species on the continent.
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph blockId="6.[140,1108,1046,1671]" pageId="6" pageNumber="157">
|
||
The authority of the specific name of
|
||
<taxonomicName box="[612,707,1222,1248]" class="Insecta" family="Staphylinidae" genus="Meotica" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="6" pageNumber="157" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="exilis">
|
||
<emphasis box="[612,707,1222,1248]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="157">M. exilis</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
has also been in doubt. It has been referred to as
|
||
<taxonomicName authority="(Erichson, 1839: 333)" baseAuthorityName="Erichson" baseAuthorityPageNumber="333" baseAuthorityYear="1839" box="[296,651,1258,1284]" class="Insecta" family="Staphylinidae" genus="Meotica" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="6" pageNumber="157" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="exilis">
|
||
<emphasis box="[296,391,1258,1284]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="157">M. exilis</emphasis>
|
||
(Erichson, 1839: 333)
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
(see
|
||
<bibRefCitation author="Leng CW" box="[709,835,1258,1284]" pageId="6" pageNumber="157" refId="ref10353" refString="Leng CW (1920) Catalogue of the Coleoptera of America north of Mexico. John D. Sherman, Jr., Mount Vernon, New York, 470 pp." type="book" year="1920">Leng 1920</bibRefCitation>
|
||
;
|
||
<bibRefCitation author="Bernhauer M & Scheerpeltz O" pageId="6" pageNumber="157" pagination="499 - 988" refId="ref9183" refString="Bernhauer M, Scheerpeltz O (1926) Staphylinidae VI. In: Junk W, Schenkling S (Eds) Coleopterum Catalogus, Pars 82. W. Junk, Berlin, 499 - 988." type="book chapter" year="1926">Bernhauer and Scheerpeltz 1926</bibRefCitation>
|
||
;
|
||
<bibRefCitation author="Moore I & Legner EF" box="[271,545,1293,1320]" pageId="6" pageNumber="157" pagination="1 - 514" refId="ref10837" refString="Moore I, Legner EF (1975) A Catalogue of the Staphylinidae of America North of Mexico (Coleoptera). University of California Division of Agricultural Sciences Special Publication 3015: 1 - 514." type="journal article" year="1975">Moore and Legner 1975</bibRefCitation>
|
||
); and
|
||
<taxonomicName authority="(Gravenhorst, 1806)" baseAuthorityName="Gravenhorst" baseAuthorityYear="1806" box="[612,940,1293,1320]" class="Insecta" family="Staphylinidae" genus="Meotica" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="6" pageNumber="157" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="exilis">
|
||
<emphasis box="[612,705,1293,1319]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="157">M. exilis</emphasis>
|
||
(Gravenhorst, 1806)
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
(
|
||
<bibRefCitation author="Seevers CH" box="[953,1102,1293,1319]" pageId="6" pageNumber="157" pagination="1 - 289" refId="ref11215" refString="Seevers CH (1978) A generic and tribal revision of the North American Aleocharinae (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae). Fieldiana Zoology 71: 1 - 289." type="journal article" year="1978">Seevers 1978</bibRefCitation>
|
||
;
|
||
<bibRefCitation author="Smetana A" box="[140,319,1328,1354]" pageId="6" pageNumber="157" pagination="353 - 494" refId="ref11357" refString="Smetana A (2004 a) Subfamily Aleocharinae Fleming, 1921: In: Lobl I, Smetana A (Eds) Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Vol. 2. Apollo Books, Stenstrup, 353 - 494." type="book chapter" year="2004">Smetana 2004a</bibRefCitation>
|
||
).
|
||
<bibRefCitation author="Muona J" box="[338,507,1328,1355]" pageId="6" pageNumber="157" pagination="225 - 246" refId="ref10932" refString="Muona J (1991) Th e North European and British species of the genus Meotica Mulsant & Rey (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae). Deutsche entomologische Zeitschrift N. F. 38: 225 - 246." type="book chapter" year="1991">Muona (1991)</bibRefCitation>
|
||
, however, argued that the species should be called
|
||
<taxonomicName authority="(Knoch in Gravenhorst, 1806: 153)" baseAuthorityName="Knoch in Gravenhorst" baseAuthorityPageNumber="153" baseAuthorityYear="1806" class="Insecta" family="Staphylinidae" genus="Meotica" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="6" pageNumber="157" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="exilis">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="157">M. exilis</emphasis>
|
||
(Knoch in Gravenhorst, 1806: 153)
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
. Although Gravenhorst cited many Knoch manuscript names without crediting Knoch (thus making Gravenhorst the author), the case of
|
||
<taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="Knoch in Gravenhorst" baseAuthorityYear="1806" box="[265,359,1434,1460]" class="Insecta" family="Staphylinidae" genus="Meotica" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="6" pageNumber="157" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="exilis">
|
||
<emphasis box="[265,359,1434,1460]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="157">M. exilis</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
is an exception to the rule because Gravenhorst explicitly credited Knoch with the description.
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subSubSection>
|
||
<subSubSection pageId="6" pageNumber="157" type="distribution">
|
||
<paragraph blockId="6.[140,1108,1046,1671]" pageId="6" pageNumber="157">
|
||
<taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="Knoch in Gravenhorst" baseAuthorityYear="1806" box="[185,335,1504,1530]" class="Insecta" family="Staphylinidae" genus="Meotica" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="6" pageNumber="157" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="exilis">
|
||
<emphasis box="[185,335,1504,1530]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="157">Meotica exilis</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
is found throughout Europe and northern Asia. It occurs in many kinds of moist situations, preferring rich soils and frequenting shores with dense vegetation and is abundant in leaf-litter under
|
||
<taxonomicName authorityName="C.Linnaeus" authorityYear="1753" box="[656,710,1574,1600]" class="Ascidiacea" family="Polycitoridae" genus="Salix" kingdom="Animalia" order="Enterogona" pageId="6" pageNumber="157" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
|
||
<emphasis box="[656,710,1574,1600]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="157">Salix</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
bushes and has been collected in
|
||
<taxonomicName authorityName="C.Linnaeus" authorityYear="1753" box="[140,255,1610,1636]" class="Sphagnopsida" family="Sphagnaceae" genus="Sphagnum" kingdom="Plantae" order="Sphagnales" pageId="6" pageNumber="157" phylum="Bryophyta" rank="genus">
|
||
<emphasis box="[140,255,1610,1636]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="157">Sphagnum</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
bogs (
|
||
<bibRefCitation author="Muona J" box="[328,482,1610,1636]" pageId="6" pageNumber="157" pagination="225 - 246" refId="ref10932" refString="Muona J (1991) Th e North European and British species of the genus Meotica Mulsant & Rey (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae). Deutsche entomologische Zeitschrift N. F. 38: 225 - 246." type="book chapter" year="1991">Muona 1991</bibRefCitation>
|
||
). A dorsal habitus photograph is provided in
|
||
<figureCitation box="[990,1057,1610,1636]" captionStart="Fig" captionStartId="6.[729,763,980,1002]" captionTargetBox="[741,1094,177,931]" captionTargetId="figure@6.[726,1110,165,942]" captionTargetPageId="6" captionText="Fig. 3. Dorsal habitus photograph of Meotica exilis. Scale = 1 mm." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3773945" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/3773945/files/figure.png" pageId="6" pageNumber="157">Fig. 3</figureCitation>
|
||
. For illustrations of the genitalia see
|
||
<bibRefCitation author="Klimaszewski J & Assing V & Majka CG & Pelletier G & Webster RP & Langor D" box="[496,798,1645,1671]" pageId="6" pageNumber="157" pagination="54 - 79" refId="ref10118" refString="Klimaszewski J, Assing V, Majka CG, Pelletier G, Webster RP, Langor D (2007) Records of adventive aleocharine beetles found in Canada (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Aleocharinae). Th e Canadian Entomologist 139: 54 - 79." type="journal article" year="2007">Klimaszewski et al. (2007)</bibRefCitation>
|
||
.
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subSubSection>
|
||
</treatment>
|
||
</document> |