General Overview of Saproxylic Coleoptera

Gimmel, Matthew L.; Ferro, Michael L.

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“…Coleoptera is an ancient group that arose in the late Permian (Yan et al, 2018) and is thought to be primitively saproxylic, probably associated with rotting wood (Ponomarenko, 1969;Crowson, 1975;Gimmel & Ferro, 2018). These earliest beetles may have microphagous mouthparts adapted to feeding on foods like algae and microfungi (Crowson, 1981;Lawrence, 1989;Leschen, 1993;Betz et al, 2003) and phylogenetic reconstructions of their diet indicate that they were either saprophagous or mycophagous (Rainford & Mayhew, 2015).…”

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Evolution of feeding habits of sap beetles (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae) and placement of Calonecrinae

Lee

Leschen

et al. 2020

Systematic Entomology

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Nitidulidae includes some 4500 species under 350 genera in ten subfamilies, making it the most species‐rich family in Cucujoidea. In this study, we present a phylogeny of the family based on five gene regions (COI, 28s, CAD, H3, Wingless) for 73 ingroup taxa representing nine of the ten currently recognized subfamilies of Nitidulidae, including the enigmatic subfamily Calonecrinae. Our results are consistent with a prior molecular study that recovered (i) paraphyletic Nitidulinae with the inclusion of Meligethinae and Cillaeinae and (ii) subfamilial status of Prometopiinae. The molecular phylogenetic position of Calonecrinae is recovered for the first time, as a sister taxon to Epuraeinae. Ancestral state reconstruction of feeding behaviour indicates that the stem group nitidulids were largely mycophagous with transitions to other feeding types independently derived.

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Evolution of feeding habits of sap beetles (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae) and placement of Calonecrinae

Lee

Leschen

et al. 2020

Systematic Entomology

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“…Two original spellings of the subfamily occur in BÖVING & CRAIGHEAD (1931): Prometopinae in the Key (p. 37); and Prometopiinae in the Conspectus (p. 74), captions to Plate 35 (p. 156) and Index (p. 346). When reinstituting the subfamily, CLINE et al (2014) used the variant Prometopinae without any comments, however since then both spellings have been used in the literature: Prometopinae (DASGUPTA et al 2015, JELÍNEK & HÁJEK 2018, LEE et al 2018, Prometopiinae (KIREJTSHUK & MANTIČ 2015, GIMMEL & FERRO 2018, or both (LAWRENCE 2016). However, BOUCHARD et al (2011) had already pointed out that spelling Prometopinae is incorrect as the stem is Prometopi-.…”

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Review of the Afrotropical species of the genus Prometopia (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae: Prometopiinae)

Jelínek

Hájek

2020

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African species of the genus Prometopia Erichson, 1843 are reviewed. Two new species: Prometopia hirta sp. nov. (Zambia and Tanzania) and P. intermedia sp. nov. (Tanzania) are described and illustrated. Two previously known Afrotropical species, Prometopia binotata Murray, 1867 and Prometopia quadrinotata Grouvelle, 1896 are redescribed, and a key to Afrotropical species of Prometopia is given as well as new data on their distribution. Notes to correct the spelling of the subfamily Prometopiinae is provided.

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“…Among the saproxylic organisms, insects are the most numerous group and among these, species-rich saproxylic beetles , Gimmel & Ferro 2018 are particularly valuable indicators of the forest naturalness (Müller et al 2005, Lachat et al 2012, Eckelt et al 2018. The main contribution to detritic food web based of decomposing wood of saproxylic beetles consists in the mechanical breakdown of the woody debris (Hickin 1963).…”

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The diversity of saproxylic beetles’ community from the Natural Reserve Voievodeasa Forest, North-Eastern Romania

Olenici

Fodor

2021

AFR

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Nature reserves harbour considerable richness and diversity of saproxylic organisms since dead wood is preserved in situ, this being also the case of Voivodeasa beech-spruce-fir forest in North-Eastern Romania, the area investigated under the present research. Flight interception traps were employed to capture insects during a vegetation season with the goal to characterize saproxylic Coleoptera community in terms of diversity and several other structural features. Among the captured insects, the majority pertained to obligate saproxylic species (217 species). However, the unexpected high species richness corresponded to an area with modest representation of deadwood due to previous status of commercial forest. The identified beetles were members of different habitat-guilds depending on what type of substrate they colonized: recently dead wood (23%), decomposed dead wood (41%), wood inhabiting fungi (34%) and treehollow detritus (2%). According to their trophic position, the identified saproxylic beetles pertained to the following guilds: xylophagous (40%), mycetophagous (39%), predatory (14%), and species relying on other food resources. The observed richness corresponded to the case of hyperdiverse communities where sampling never leads to the stabilization of species richness under a realistic sampling scheme. The diversity profiles constructed on Shannon, Gini-Simpson, Berger-Parker and evenness indices for the pooled inventory and for separate samples across the vegetation season indicated the aggregated saproxylic community as highly diverse and highly uneven, with rich representation of rare species, dominated by few abundant species. We assembled four bipartite, unweighted, and undirected networks to approach the temporal changes across the sampling period extended over one vegetation season. The topology of beetles’ community and of the three main trophic guilds (xylophagous, mycetophagous and predatory) networks linked to time sequences are characterized by high connectance, high nestedness and modularity, with the exception of the mycetophagous sub-network not displaying significant modularity. Among the identified species, 13% indicate high degree of naturalness of the Voievodeasa forest. 62 of the identified species are included in the Red List of European Saproxylic Beetles of which five are near threatened (Protaetia fieberi, Cucujus cinnaberinus, Crepidophorus mutilatus, Ceruchus chrysomelinus, Prostomis mandibularis), Ischnodes sanguinolentus is vulnerable and Rhysodes sulcatus is an endangered species. During the study, two Coleoptera species, new for Romanian insect fauna were identified: Denticollis interpositus Roubal, 1941 and Hylis procerulus (Mannerheim 1823).

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General Overview of Saproxylic Coleoptera

Cited by 39 publications

References 67 publications

Evolution of feeding habits of sap beetles (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae) and placement of Calonecrinae

Evolution of feeding habits of sap beetles (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae) and placement of Calonecrinae

Review of the Afrotropical species of the genus Prometopia (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae: Prometopiinae)

The diversity of saproxylic beetles’ community from the Natural Reserve Voievodeasa Forest, North-Eastern Romania

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