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(an example of a Latridiidae)
The Minute Brown Scavenger Beetles (Coleoptera: Latridiidae) of Papua Indonesia
by Wolfgang Rücker
Listed New Guinea species: 10 [no endemic species known from New Guinea]
The Latridiidae are in New Guinea represented by two subfamilies: Latridiinae and Corticariinae.
(For practical reasons all New Guinea species are listed. As soon as more distributional information comes available the list will be restricted to real Papua species).
Latridiinae
Cartodere C. G. Thomson, 1859
sg. Aridius Motschulsky, 1866bifasciata (Reitter, 1877)
dualis Broun, 1914
nigromaculatus Blackburn, 1888costatipennis (Blackburn, 1888)
nodifer (Westwood, 1839)
antipodum White, 1846
humile Rey, 1889
marginalis Broun, 1880
nodulosa Motschulsky, 1866
rufescens Delahon, 1913
sculpturata Broun, 1880satelles (Blackburn, 1888)
australica sensu auctorum not Belon, 1887
norvegicus Strand, 1940sg. Cartodere C. G. Thomson, 1859
constricta (Gyllenhal, 1827)
aegyptiacus Motschulsky, 1866
apicalis Blackburn, 1988
approximata Wollaston, 1877
carinata Gyllenhal, 1827
carinulata Mannerheim, 1844
castaneus Broun, 1866
incisa Mannerheim, 1844
limbata Förster, 1851
monticola Mannerheim, 1869
nervosa Mannerheim, 1844
perpusilla Walker, 1858
sculptilis Le Conte, 1855
tenuis Belon, 1885Euchionellus Reitter, 1908
Lithostygnus Broun, 1886
serripennis Broun, 1914
Corticariinae
Corticaria Marsham, 1802
ferruginea Marsham, 1802
boreophila Motschulsky, 1867
deleta Mannerheim, 1853
denticulata Kirby, 1837
kirbyi Le Conte, 1855
longula Broun, 1910
nigriceps Waltl, 1893
nigricollis Zetterstedt, 1838
obtusa Le Conte, 1855
rufulus Zetterstedt, 1838
rugolosa Le Conte, 1855
subacuminata Mannerheim, 1844lindensis (Blackburn, 1891)
Cortinicara Johnson, 1975
gibbosa (Herbst, 1793)
[Checklist last updated on 28th March 2010]
Literature and other sources
Blackburn, T., 1888. Further notes on Australian Coleoptera, with descriptions of new species. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 10: 177–287.
Blackburn, T., 1891. Further notes on Australian Coleoptera with descriptions of new genera and species. IX. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 14: 65–153.
Broun, T., 1880. Manual of the New Zealand Coleoptera. Part 1. Wellington: Government Printing Office, 19: 651 pp.
Broun, T., 1886. Manual of the New Zealand Coleoptera. Part 4. Wellington: Government Printing Office, pp. 817–973.
Broun, T., 1893. Manual of the New Zealand Coleoptera. Part 6. Wellington: Government Printing Office: pp. 1321–1394.
Broun, T., 1895. Descriptions of New Coleoptera from New Zealand. (Continued). The Annals & Magazine of Natural History (6) 15: 194–203.
Broun, T., 1910. Descriptions of new genera and species of Coleoptera. Bulletin of the New Zealand Institute 1: 3–78.
Broun, T., 1914. Descriptions of new genera and species of Coleoptera. Part 3. Bulletin of the New Zealand Institute 1: 143–266.
Johnson, C. & Rücker, W.H., 2007. Änderungen zur Nomenklatur der Latridiidae und Endomychidae, Merophysiinae in Mitteleuropa nach Revisionen im „Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera“ Band 4, Juni 2007. (Coleoptera: Latridiidae). Latridiidae – Mitteilungsblatt für Systematik und Taxonomie der Latridiidae 5: 7–10.
Lawrence, J. F.& Newton, A.F., Jr., 1995. Families and subfamilies of Coleoptera (with selected genera, notes, references and data on family-group names). pp. 779-1006 – In: J. Pakaluk & S. A. Slipinski (Eds.): Biology, Phylogeny, and Classification of Coleoptera: Papers Celebrating the 80th Birthday of Roy A. Crowson. Museum i Instytut Zoologii PAN, Warszawa.
Rücker, W.H., 1995. Cartodere australica (Belon) und Cartodere norvegica (Strand) (Coleoptera: Latridiidae). Mitteilungen internationaler entomologischer Verein, 20 (1–2): 59–61.
Rücker, W.H., 2005. Typenstudien paläarktischer und australischer Latridiidae (Coleoptera: Latridiidae). Latridiidae – Mitteilungsblatt für Systematik und Taxonomie der Latridiidae 3: 11–17.