Notes on Diochus Erichson, Lissohypnus Casey, and Oxybleptes Smetana (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) in Florida, including a description of a new species of Lissohypnus
Author
Frank, J. H.
Author
Kelly, S. L.
Author
Almquist, D. T.
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Insecta Mundi
2014
2014-09-19
2014
382
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journal article
10.5281/zenodo.5179513
1942-1354
5179513
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Diochus schaumii
Kraatz 1860: 27
Diochus schaumii
Kraatz
is the single species of
Diochus
recognized by
Smetana (1982)
among all
862 specimens
that he examined in collections made in America north of
Mexico
. He placed three
Casey (1906)
species names (
D. brevipennis
,
D. thoracicus
and D.
pallidiceps
) as synonyms after examination of their
type
material in the Casey collection in the
United States
National Museum. He recognized a difference in specimens from the southern part of the distributional range (especially
Florida
and
Georgia
) in that they are uniformly testaceous, with the elytra very short and the wings micropterous, but found them to be conspecific.
It
should not be supposed that pale specimens with short elytra are typical for
Florida. All
but one of the
Florida
specimens that we examined in
JHFC
(Alachua, Dade, Glades, Highlands,
Indian River
, Leon, Palm Beach,
St. Lucie
, Sarasota, Taylor and Walton counties)
UCFC
(
Orange County
) and
FSCA
(
Baker
and
Marion
counties) are of the normal dark form with elytra of normal length.
One
specimen in
UCFC
is of the normal dark color but is micropterous and with short elytra
;
it is labeled UCF, Orlando,
Orange Co.
FL
,
VIII-27-1997
/ LLP/
Sand Pine
Turkey
Oak
,
Pitfall Trap
/
S. M. Fullerton Collector
(
UCFC
0 173 591).
In
addition, a specimen was borrowed by SHK from the
Archbold Biological Station
Collection
near
Lake Placid
, by courtesy of
Mark Deyrup
;
it is pale, micropterous, and with short elytra and is labeled:
Archbold Biol. Sta.
,
Lk. Placid
,
Highlands Co.
, FLA.,
14 Jan. 1984
,
M. Deyrup
/
OAK LITTER
, E.
SIDE 18
E, RSh
.
Smetana (1977
,
1982
) used the spelling
D
.
schaumi
, which differs from the original spelling as “
schaumii
” by
Kraatz (1860: 27)
, although
ICZN (1999
article 33.4) states that original spellings with termination –ii are to be retained, not changed to –i.