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Taxonomy, Systematics and Evolution of Coleoptera

A special issue of Diversity (ISSN 1424-2818). This special issue belongs to the section "Phylogeny and Evolution".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 January 2023) | Viewed by 14556

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Dr. Jiří Kolibáč

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Department of Entomology, Moravian Museum, 62700 Brno, Czech Republic
Interests: phylogeny; morphology; biogeography; paleontology; Coleoptera; Cleroidea; Mesozoic; Cenozoic; recent; evolutionary biology; extinctions; fossils; molecular phylogeny

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Dear Colleagues,

As we well know, the Creator had an inordinate fondness for beetles (J. B. S. Haldane), and so far almost a half million species of this largest animal order have been described. Hundreds of new beetle species are found around the world every year. I have been interested in these beautiful creatures since the 1970s, for more than 40 years. Over the course of these years, I have been a witness of the decline of insect biodiversity in the Central European fauna and the degradation of natural habitats in various parts of the world.Now, I would like to offer you a Special Issue focused on beetles, especially their systematics and evolution.Therefore, we would greatly appreciate high-level articles dealing with beetle taxonomy, biogeography, phylogenomics, morphology, paleontology and other aspects related to beetle diversity.

Dr. Jiří Kolibáč
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Keywords

  • Coleoptera
  • systematics
  • evolution
  • phylogeny
  • biogeography
  • paleontology
  • morphology
  • molecular genetics
  • phylogenomics

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15 pages, 4483 KiB  
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Evolution of Expending Extra Effort in Making a Dung Mass before Making a Brood Ball in the Nesting Behavior of the Female Dung Beetle Copris acutidens (Coleoptera; Scarabaeoidea)
by Mayumi Akamine and Tatsuya Mishima
Diversity 2023, 15(6), 767; https://doi.org/10.3390/d15060767 - 12 Jun 2023
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Nutrient limitations have often caused the evolution of mechanisms for efficient nutrient acquisition. The mouthparts of adult dung beetles efficiently acquire nutrients from a fiber-rich diet. Conversely, primitive mouthparts force larvae to survive on a low-quality diet despite experiencing the most demanding growth [...] Read more.
Nutrient limitations have often caused the evolution of mechanisms for efficient nutrient acquisition. The mouthparts of adult dung beetles efficiently acquire nutrients from a fiber-rich diet. Conversely, primitive mouthparts force larvae to survive on a low-quality diet despite experiencing the most demanding growth stages. In this study, we investigated the nutritional conditions and microbial community of the larval diet through the nesting behavior of the dung beetle Copris acutidens. We revealed that diet quality (C/N ratio) increased during the process of making the brood ball, irrespective of dung type. The sequencing of the bacterial community based on a partial 16S rRNA gene and the fungal community that targeted ITS2 region revealed that the fungal community in the female gut was the closest to the larval diet, whereas the bacterial community was not. The proportion of fungal Trichosporonaceae tended to increase with a decreasing C/N ratio irrespective of dung type and was alive in the larval gut. We suggest that Trichosporonaceae is a gut symbiont of both the adult female and larvae of C. acutidens, which is transmitted to the dung mass and then to larval gut through the brood ball, and that females have evolved the extra effort processes in their nesting behavior to compensate for larval diet quality, which is likely associated with symbiont fungi within the family Trichosporonaceae. Full article
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First Record of Osphya (Melandryidae: Osphyinae) from Chinese Mainland Based on Morphological Evidence and Mitochondrial Genome-Based Phylogeny of Tenebrionoidea
by Haoyu Liu, Lilan Yuan, Ping Wang, Zhao Pan, Junbo Tong, Gang Wu and Yuxia Yang
Diversity 2023, 15(2), 282; https://doi.org/10.3390/d15020282 - 15 Feb 2023
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Osphya Illiger (Melandryidae: Osphyinae) as a species-poor insect group, exhibits a widespread distribution in the Northern Hemisphere, however, the research of the genus is poorly documented especially in East Asia. Herein, an interesting species is discovered in Shennongjia National Natural Reserve (Hubei, China). [...] Read more.
Osphya Illiger (Melandryidae: Osphyinae) as a species-poor insect group, exhibits a widespread distribution in the Northern Hemisphere, however, the research of the genus is poorly documented especially in East Asia. Herein, an interesting species is discovered in Shennongjia National Natural Reserve (Hubei, China). The examination of morphological characters and comparisons with others show it to be a new member of Osphya, which is described under the name of O. sinensis sp. n. The characteristic photos and a key to the species of Osphya from East Asia are provided. Meanwhile, the mitochondrial genome of O. sinensis sp. n. is sequenced and annotated. Based on this obtained mitogenome and the publicly available data, we reconstructed the phylogeny of Tenebrionoidea by different cladistics methods to investigate the relationships between the new species with others. The results consistently recover O. sinensis sp. n. sister to O. bipunctata (Fabricius) with high supporting values, which further confirm the placement of the new species in the genus Osphya. This is the first time reporting the genus Osphya, the only representative genus of melandryid Osphyinae from mainland China, which enriches the diversity of beetles from the Chinese fauna at both generic and subfamilial levels. Full article
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New Data on the Occurrence of Scarabaeoid Beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea) in Serbia
by Adam Byk, Marek Bidas, Tomasz Gazurek, Adam Kwiatkowski, Dawid Marczak, Łukasz Minkina, Radosław Mroczyński, Danuta Pepłowska-Marczak, Saša S. Stanković, Vladimir Žikić and Sebastian Tylkowski
Diversity 2023, 15(2), 264; https://doi.org/10.3390/d15020264 - 13 Feb 2023
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The Serbian fauna of the superfamily Scarabaeoidea is relatively well-known compared to the neighbouring countries. Many common species known from Serbia’s neighbouring countries are not recorded in Serbia, despite the richness of the country’s habitats, such as high-mountain meadows, pastures, deep gorges, riverbanks [...] Read more.
The Serbian fauna of the superfamily Scarabaeoidea is relatively well-known compared to the neighbouring countries. Many common species known from Serbia’s neighbouring countries are not recorded in Serbia, despite the richness of the country’s habitats, such as high-mountain meadows, pastures, deep gorges, riverbanks (including the exceptionally valuable sandy banks of the Danube) and old forests. Therefore, we aim to supplement the current information on the distribution of the species of the Serbian scarabaeoid beetles. The presented scarabaeoid beetles were caught during seven expeditions in 2013, 2017, 2018, 2019 (two expeditions), 2021, and 2022. As a result, 2031 beetles belonging to 120 species and five families of the superfamily Scarabaeoidea (Geotrupidae, Trogidae, Lucanidae, Glaphyridae, Scarabaeidae) were observed. In less than two months of the faunistic study, the authors confirmed the occurrence in Serbia of 49.5% of the scarabaeoid species previously known from this country and added 13 new species that had not been previously recorded: Eulasia pareyssei (Brullé, 1832), Pygopleurus apicalis (Brullé, 1832), Melinopterus reyi (Reitter, 1892), Nimbus johnsoni (Baraud, 1976), Planolinoides borealis (Gyllenhal, 1827), Copris hispanus Linnaeus, 1764, C. umbilicatus Abeille de Perrin, 1901, Cheironitis furcifer (P. Rossi, 1792), Onthophagus dellacasai Pittino & Mariani, 1981, O. similis (Scriba, 1790), Chaetonyx schatzmayri Mariani, 1946, Holochelus costulatus (Frivaldszky, 1835), and Omaloplia corcyrae (Baraud, 1965). Eight species and one subspecies typical for the Balkan Peninsula were also found: Jekelius punctulatus (Jekel, 1866), Pygopleurus apicalis, P. chrysonotus (Brullé, 1832), Onthophagus dellacasai, Chaetonyx robustus robustus Schaum, 1862, Ch. schatzmayri, Omaloplia corcyrae, O. illyrica (Baraud, 1965), and Triodontella dalmatica (Baraud, 1962). Thus, the number of currently known scarabaeoid species in Serbia has increased to 229. Our results indicate insufficient knowledge of the Scarabaeoidea of Serbia. Therefore, further research and new expeditions to Serbia are highly desirable. High-mountain and Danubian communities of dung beetles are priceless and deserve protection. Twenty-one species of scarabaeoid beetles are illustrated. Full article
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Lamellicorn Beetles (Coleoptera, Scarabaeoidea) of the Islands of the Peter the Great Gulf, Sea of Japan (Primorsky Krai of Russia)
by Vitaly G. Bezborodov and Elena V. Lesik
Diversity 2023, 15(2), 213; https://doi.org/10.3390/d15020213 - 2 Feb 2023
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The species diversity of lamellicorn beetles (Coleoptera, Scarabaeoidea) on the 20 islands of Peter the Great Gulf was considered and analyzed for the first time, where 83 species from 38 genera were identified. There are 60 species (72.3%) and 20 genera (52.6%) are [...] Read more.
The species diversity of lamellicorn beetles (Coleoptera, Scarabaeoidea) on the 20 islands of Peter the Great Gulf was considered and analyzed for the first time, where 83 species from 38 genera were identified. There are 60 species (72.3%) and 20 genera (52.6%) are new for the fauna of the islands, with reference to the literature data. The total fauna with Russky Island (21 islands) includes 87 species from 38 genera of 13 subfamilies and four families of the superfamily Scarabaeoidea. The diversity and degree of study of the group on individual islands is very uneven. Russky Island with 80 species (92% of the total fauna of 21 islands), Popov Island with 42 species (48.3%) and Putyatin Island with 39 species (44.8%) have the most species-rich fauna. On the islands of Kozlov, Rikord, Zheltukhin, and Durnovo, one species was recorded (1.1%). The Scarabaeidae Latreille, 1802 is dominates the fauna of 21 islands—77 species (88.5%), other families are represented by a single species: Trogidae Macleay, 1819—5 species (5.7%), Lucanidae Latreille, 1804—3 species (3.5%), Geotrupidae Latreille, 1802—2 species (2.3%). Scarabaeinae with 15 species (19.5%), Aphodiinae Leach, 1815 with 14 species (18.2%), and Rhizotroginae with 13 species (16.9%) are dominant in the Scarabaeidae fauna. The article deals with the annotated list of species and the studied material, discusses the ecological and zoogeographical features of the local faunas of Scarabaeoidea and features of the faunagenesis of the study area. The local Scarabaeoidea faunas of the islands are characterized by a significant depletion and mosaic composition of the species composition in comparison with the continental fauna. Despite the peculiarity of the climatic conditions of the islands and their significant isolation from the continental coast, the insular faunas of Scarabaeoidea demonstrate a high degree of similarity to the area, and have a logical structure with the continental fauna of lamellicorn beetles due to the geological youth of the island. The islands appeared during the post-Pleistocene transgression of the sea 11 to 8.5 thousand years ago. Full article
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A Review of Araeopidius monachus (LeConte, 1874) (Coleoptera: Dryopoidea: Ptilodactylidae), with Main Emphasis on Its Biology and Ecology
by William D. Shepard and Robin Kundrata
Diversity 2023, 15(2), 131; https://doi.org/10.3390/d15020131 - 18 Jan 2023
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Araeopidius monachus (LeConte, 1874) is the only species in the subfamily Araeopidiinae within the beetle family Ptilodactylidae. Its geographic distribution is mainly along the western coast of North America, where adults are uncommon. A diagnosis is provided along with detailed collection records highlighting [...] Read more.
Araeopidius monachus (LeConte, 1874) is the only species in the subfamily Araeopidiinae within the beetle family Ptilodactylidae. Its geographic distribution is mainly along the western coast of North America, where adults are uncommon. A diagnosis is provided along with detailed collection records highlighting its seasonality, elevational range, plant associations, and collection methods. Collection records from larvae and adults indicate a three-year life cycle. Digestive tract dissections show that the larvae consume woody material while the adults probably do not feed. Additionally, we briefly discuss the problems and prospects for research of this enigmatic species. Full article
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Burmogonus gen. nov., a New Click Beetle (Coleoptera: Elateridae: Elaterinae) from Mid-Cretaceous Burmese Amber
by Katerina Triskova, Gabriela Packova, Alexander S. Prosvirov and Robin Kundrata
Diversity 2022, 14(12), 1070; https://doi.org/10.3390/d14121070 - 5 Dec 2022
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The click beetles (Elateridae) originated in the Mesozoic and recently form a relatively large family with approximately 10,000 described species worldwide. However, the Mesozoic, and particularly Cretaceous, click beetle fauna remains very poorly known. Here we describe Burmogonus cretaceus gen. et sp. nov. [...] Read more.
The click beetles (Elateridae) originated in the Mesozoic and recently form a relatively large family with approximately 10,000 described species worldwide. However, the Mesozoic, and particularly Cretaceous, click beetle fauna remains very poorly known. Here we describe Burmogonus cretaceus gen. et sp. nov. based on a single, relatively well-preserved, specimen from the mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber. This species can be assigned with confidence to the subfamily Elaterinae, and based on the supra-antennal carinae being incomplete across the head and directed to the labrum, the shape of metacoxal plates, and simple tarsi, we tentatively place it in the tribe Elaterini. We discuss the morphology of a new genus and other Elaterinae described from Burmese amber. Full article
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Revision of the Taumacera cervicornis Species Group (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae) from Sri Lanka
by Jan Bezděk
Diversity 2022, 14(12), 1041; https://doi.org/10.3390/d14121041 - 28 Nov 2022
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The cervicornis species group of Taumacera Thunberg, 1814, endemic to Sri Lanka, is revised. Seven species, including three species new to science, are recognized: Taumacera cervicornis (Baly, 1861), T. lewisi (Jacoby, 1887), T. mirabilis (Jacoby, 1887), T. unicolor (Jacoby, 1887), T. adamskii sp. [...] Read more.
The cervicornis species group of Taumacera Thunberg, 1814, endemic to Sri Lanka, is revised. Seven species, including three species new to science, are recognized: Taumacera cervicornis (Baly, 1861), T. lewisi (Jacoby, 1887), T. mirabilis (Jacoby, 1887), T. unicolor (Jacoby, 1887), T. adamskii sp. nov., T. maskeliya sp. nov., and T. sigiriya sp. nov. The representatives of this group are characterized by pectinate antennomeres and by 12-segmented antennae. Antennomeres XI and XII are firmly fused in most species, separated by a distinct suture; however, in T. cervicornis, antennomere XII appears to be moveable. Color photographs of habitus, body details, and aedeagi as well as female genitalia are presented. Full article
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