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<taxonomicName id="F101DDA39B3EAB1671C2D0A4F5E7C344" ID-CoL="4FZ56" authority="Say, 1825" authorityName="Say" authorityYear="1825" class="Insecta" family="Histeridae" genus="Phelister" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Phelister subrotundus" order="Coleoptera" pageId="20" pageNumber="61" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="subrotundus">Phelister subrotundus (Say, 1825)</taxonomicName>
Figs 2, 6; Map 4
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<taxonomicName id="9C441B2A6ABDCD3D6FD0C6DE57B03F76" class="Insecta" family="Histeridae" genus="Hister" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Hister subrotundus" order="Coleoptera" pageId="20" pageNumber="61" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="subrotundus">Hister subrotundus</taxonomicName>
Say, 1825: 39.
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:
<bibRefCitation id="78C8DFE70BE10452F6608899638D7557" author="Marseul, SA" journalOrPublisher="Annals and Magazine of Natural History" pageId="42" pageNumber="83" url="https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.9221" year="1853">Marseul 1853</bibRefCitation>
: 487.
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<taxonomicName id="FC02CDF55A80A2E6D87C8CDE2F5C8DE2" class="Insecta" family="Histeridae" genus="Phelister" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Phelister rubricatus" order="Coleoptera" pageId="20" pageNumber="61" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="rubricatus">Phelister rubricatus</taxonomicName>
Lewis, 1908: 158;
<bibRefCitation id="332836878EAD0F8D03EBE80591DF4495" pageId="20" pageNumber="61">Mazur 1997</bibRefCitation>
: 29.
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<taxonomicName id="A62621E55B70004D37E7573DBE27FE2C" class="Insecta" family="Histeridae" genus="Phelister" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" infraspecific-rank="var." kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Phelister subrotundus var. sayi" order="Coleoptera" pageId="20" pageNumber="61" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="variety" species="subrotundus" variety="sayi">Phelister subrotundus var. sayi</taxonomicName>
Carnochan, 1915: 213;
<bibRefCitation id="11718DA4D52505F2393D8987AB06BBF8" pageId="20" pageNumber="61">Mazur 1997</bibRefCitation>
: 29.
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Carnochan, 1915: 213;
<bibRefCitation id="009499709AD8CFEEF40BFC4B702339FE" pageId="20" pageNumber="61">Mazur 1997</bibRefCitation>
: 29.
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Casey, 1916: 291;
<bibRefCitation id="9D1A81C220A7DA5033DE6BE5F768165E" author="Mazur, S" journalOrPublisher="Polskie Pismo Entomologiczne" pageId="42" pageNumber="83" pagination="1 - 376" title="A World Catalogue of Histeridae." volume="54" year="1984">Mazur 1984</bibRefCitation>
: 285.
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<taxonomicName id="8ADFDB12B56B476D4E19FF8ED959BF45" class="Insecta" family="Histeridae" genus="Phelister" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Phelister contractus" order="Coleoptera" pageId="20" pageNumber="61" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="contractus">Phelister contractus</taxonomicName>
Casey, 1916: 230, syn nov. (previously synonymized with
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by
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, in error).
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<taxonomicName id="931E3302E837B2619CB34758C7BB6341" class="Insecta" family="Histeridae" genus="Phelister" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Phelister subrotundatus" order="Coleoptera" pageId="20" pageNumber="61" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="subrotundatus">Phelister subrotundatus</taxonomicName>
:
<bibRefCitation id="3713363DE24A4BE943DEF087EAAFEACA" author="Mazur, S" journalOrPublisher="Polskie Pismo Entomologiczne" pageId="42" pageNumber="83" pagination="1 - 376" title="A World Catalogue of Histeridae." volume="54" year="1984">Mazur 1984</bibRefCitation>
: 286 (misspelling).
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<paragraph id="F164AFD2DE3C54C6FDBD4DEE36C88B9C" pageId="20" pageNumber="61">Type material.</paragraph>
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Neotype of
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Say, hereby designated: [pale pinkish round disk] /
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/ &quot;NEOTYPE Hister subrotundus Say Desg. Caterino &amp; Tishechkin, 2011&quot;, MCZC. This common, widespread, and somewhat variable Nearctic species needs to be represented by a physical type so as to establish the identity of
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, in the event that later work reveals it to represent multiple species.
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Types of synonyms. Lectotype of
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Lewis hereby designated:
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[red bordered disk] / &quot;Dane Co., Wis. IX.30.99&quot; / &quot;G.Lewis Coll. B.M.1926-369&quot; / &quot;Phelister rubricatus Lewis Type&quot; / &quot;LECTOTYPE Phelister rubricatus Lewis M.S. Caterino and A.K. Tishechkin des. 2010&quot;, NHMUK; Paralectotype: &quot;Eddyville, IA&quot; (interpreted by G.
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as Eddyville, Ja. [sic]) / &quot;G.Lewis Coll. B.M.1926-369&quot; / &quot;Phelister rubricatus Lew. Cotype&quot; / &quot;PARALECTOTYPE Phelister rubricatus Lewis M.S. Caterino and A.K. Tishechkin des. 2010&quot;, NHMUK. Holotypes of
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,
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and
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, are in MCZ (#26012 and 26013, respectively.) Lectotype of
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Casey hereby designated: &quot;Alab 2289&quot; / &quot;Casey bequest 1925&quot; / &quot;TYPE USNM 38448&quot; / &quot;carnochani Csy.
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Csy nec Carn.&quot; / &quot;LECTOTYPE Phelister carnochani Casey M.S. Caterino and A.K. Tishechkin des. 2019, USNM. Holotype of
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Casey: &quot;Lee Co Tex&quot; / &quot;Casey bequest 1925&quot; / &quot;TYPE USNM 38447&quot; / &quot;contractus Csy.&quot;, USNM. This species was previously synonymized, in error, with
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by
<bibRefCitation id="D7F922F6F06E7C38E210153E72781DC6" pageId="20" pageNumber="61">Mazur (1997)</bibRefCitation>
. Wenzel (unpub. notes) agrees with our assessment.
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<paragraph id="853533F28D93E4951B3CA447A5ECF270" pageId="20" pageNumber="61">Diagnostic description.</paragraph>
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Length: 1.54-1.85 mm (avg. 1.69 mm); width: 1.30-1.62 mm (avg. 1.52 mm). Body elongate-oval, widest behind humeri, mostly piceous, posterolateral corners of elytra and legs generally reddish; entire dorsum finely punctulate, the pronotum more densely so than the elytra; frons finely punctulate, impressed along midline, supraorbital stria complete, frontal stria interrupted at middle, slightly sinuate at sides; labrum wide, weakly emarginate apically; both mandibles with strong tooth on inner edges; pronotum with more or less complete lateral submarginal stria incurved and crenulate anteriorly, ending freely, and diverging slightly from pronotal margin posteriorly, where it is weakly abbreviated; pronotal disk with larger punctures interspersed with finer punctures along lateral thirds; elytron with single, complete epipleural stria, outer subhumeral stria present in apical third, inner subhumeral stria absent, dorsal striae 1-5 complete, sutural stria obsolete in basal third; propygidium with distinct secondary punctures decreasing in density posteriad; pygidium more finely punctate; prosternal keel with two complete striae, weakly convergent and free anteriorly, usually united along basal margin of keel; male prosternal keel with coarser and denser punctures, the striae often more widely separated and more nearly parallel; mesoventral marginal stria complete, weakly crenulate, close to anterior mesoventral margin, often with corresponding median
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, continued at sides by postmesocoxal stria which ends freely midway between the meso- and metacoxae; mesometaventral stria complete, crenulate at middle, arched anteriad distinctly onto mesoventrite (with weakly parallel median
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to mesoventral stria), curving posteriad to near inner corner of metacoxa; first abdominal ventrite with complete inner lateral stria and abbreviated outer lateral stria; protibia with apex obliquely truncate, outer margin weakly rounded, bearing ca. six evenly spaced marginal spines; meso- and metatibiae weakly expanded to apex, mesotibia with ca. five marginal spines, more prominent toward apex, metatibia with distinct spines confined to apical fourth. Aedeagus with basal piece ca. one-fourth total length; tegmen widened toward apex, apex evenly rounded, with shallow apical emargination; median lobe ca. two-thirds tegmen length, with differentiated basal and distal proximal apodemes.
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Figure 6.
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(Say): A Dorsal habitus B Frontal view showing frontal striae C Prosternum and mesoventrite of male D Prosternum and mesoventrite of female
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(Fairmaire) E Dorsal habitus F Ventral view of prosternum of male and meso- and metaventrites showing striae.
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.
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Among species occurring in the United States,
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is easily separated by the following character states: elytra reddish posterolaterally; frons depressed, with frontal stria interrupted; submarginal pronotal stria present, more or less complete, curved mediad anteriorly and diverging from margin posteriorly; prosternal striae converging anteriorly to nearly parallel, intervening punctures denser in male; elytral stria 1-5 complete. Below we refer to this species and following four (
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,
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,
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, and
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) informally as the
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complex, and their close relationship is supported by phylogenetic analyses to date.
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<paragraph id="1A23C2BE70EEFD77256D3B0DF7786CE2" pageId="21" pageNumber="62">Biology.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="4A84AEA521D656F8FE07AC045EB8D8A8" lastPageId="22" lastPageNumber="63" pageId="21" pageNumber="62">
The species has diverse and general habits, having been collected very commonly in dung, as well as in decaying vegetation, leaf litter, seaweed on the beach, in pocket gopher (
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) burrows, and even with a few ant species (in the genera
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Mayr and
<taxonomicName id="A21E4160F093C2BEB596F2748E7B4843" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Formica" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Formica" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="21" pageNumber="62" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Formica</taxonomicName>
L.). A few of the specimens from pocket gopher burrows, including one from Arkansas and four from Georgia, are unusually small and
<pageBreakToken id="5AEB641F78506A50C23940EDF5A2F28E" pageId="22" pageNumber="63" start="start">have</pageBreakToken>
a posteriorly abbreviated sublateral pronotal stria. Males from both localities were dissected and do not differ in any obvious way from others of the species, so we have not considered them distinct. Further study should more carefully address this possibility with molecular data. Interestingly, a long series from
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(Shaw) burrows from St Clair Co, Illinois, do not exhibit these differences.
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<subSubSection id="C3C01EE9B1B6CA5C03D4C548256AF07F" pageId="22" pageNumber="63" type="distribution">
<paragraph id="860EF49402AAF49EB0A58EBD59C815B3" pageId="22" pageNumber="63">Distribution.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="D9F47C3BA80194C6E003977B8891209B" pageId="22" pageNumber="63">
This is the most abundant and widespread
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species in North America, occurring from southeastern Canada to Florida, west to South Dakota and Arizona. We have not seen any records from Mexico, but it occurs in several US border counties, and must occur south of the border as well. Records: CANADA: Ontario; Quebec; USA: Alabama: Blount, Greene, Marion; Arizona: Pima, Santa Cruz; Arkansas: Calhoun, Lafayette, Lee, Little River, Scott, Washington; Delaware: Kent, Sussex; District of Columbia; Florida: Alachua; Georgia: Baker, Burke, Clarke, Dodge, Lamar, Peach, Talbot, Thomas, Wheeler; Illinois: Champaign, Coles, Cook, Grundy, Iroquois, Jackson, Jo Daviess, Kane, Kankakee, Lake, Mason, McHenry, Pope, St. Clair, Will; Indiana: Boone, Brown, Franklin, Jasper, Lake, LaPorte, Laurel, Lawrence, Monroe, Newton, Parke, Porter, Starke, Tippecanoe, Vanderburgh; Iowa: Butler, Cedar, Dickinson, Dubuque, Johnson, Marshall, Monroe, Muscatine, Plymouth, Story, Warren; Kansas: Bourbon, Decatur, Doniphan, Douglas, Jefferson, Kiowa, Labette, Leavenworth, Miami, Montgomery, Norton, Pottowatomie, Rawlins, Riley, Sedgwick, Shawnee; Kentucky: Bell, Henderson; Louisiana: Bienville, Orleans, St. Charles, West Feliciana; Maine: Oxford; Maryland: Anne Arundel, Calvert, Charles, Garret, Montgomery, Prince
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, Somerset, Talbot, Washington; Massachusetts: Hampden, Hampshire, Middlesex, Plymouth; Michigan: Ingham, Kalamazoo, Macomb, Washtenaw, Wayne; Minnesota: Brown; Mississippi: Harrison, Oktibbeha, Pontotoc; Missouri: Boone, Marion, Mississippi, Pike, Saint Louis, Scott, Taney, Washington, Nebraska: Clay, Lancaster, Lincoln, Saunders; New Jersey: Bergen, Camden, Cape May, Gloucester, Hudson, Morris, Passaic, Sussex, Union; New Hampshire: Grafton; New Mexico: Hidalgo; New York: Cattaraugus, Kings, Monroe, Nassau, Onondaga, Orange, Richmond, Seneca, St. Lawrence, Suffolk, Tompkins; North Carolina: Buncombe, Duplin, Edgecombe, Jackson, New Hanover, Swain, Wake; North Dakota: Cass, Richland; Ohio: Ashland, Clermont, Cuyahoga, Franklin, Hocking, Lucas, Medina, Ross, Scioto, Summit, Wayne; Oklahoma: Cleveland, Comanche, Craig, Grant, Hughes, Latimer, Marshall, McCurtain, Payne, Sequoyah, Woods; Pennsylvania: Bradford, Cambria, Chester, Dauphin, Fulton, Luzerne, Monroe, Montgomery, Perry, Philadelphia; South Carolina: Anderson, Bamberg, Charleston, Dorchester, Florence, Pickens, Richland; South Dakota: Jackson, Lawrence, Minnehaha, Pennington, Yankton; Tennessee: Benton, Blount, Davidson, Hamilton, Montgomery, Morgan, Sevier, Wilson; Texas: Brazos, Colorado, Dallas, Denton, Duval, Erath, Goliad, Hidalgo, Jim Hogg, Montague, Val Verde; Virginia: Arlington, Fairfax, Nansemond, Nelson, Spotsylvania; West Virginia: Berkeley, Braxton, Grant, Greenbrier, Mason, Mineral, Preston, Putnam, Wayne; Wisconsin: Crawford, Dane, Iowa, Jefferson, Kenosha, Lafayette, Richland, Sauk, Shawano, Walworth, Waupaca.
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Map 4. United States county map shading counties with records of
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. Not shown are records from southern Ontario and Quebec, Canada (see Bousquet &amp; Laplante 2006). No records have been found from Mexico.
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