Genus Microstagetus

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Range · Remarks · Works Cited

Arthrolips misellus (LeConte) - Microstagetus

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Coleoptera (Beetles)

Suborder Polyphaga

No Taxon (Series Cucujiformia)

Superfamily Coccinelloidea

No Taxon (Coccinellid group)

Family Corylophidae (Minute Hooded Beetles)

Genus Microstagetus

Explanation of Names

Microstagetus Wollaston 1861

Numbers

1 sp. described in our area (M. parvulus Wollaston) from OK(1)

Range

primarily Palaearctic and Afrotropical(2); all images posted here are from southernmost Texas

Remarks

I have not received a positive ID on this beetle from anyone yet, although Andy Cline suggested it may be Microstagetus. I’ve sent gift material to him and to Mike Thomas. It is very common at one site near Brownsville –the Sabal Palm Grove. It is associated with dead palm fronds and can be found just about everywhere you can find a dead Sabal frond. This species is certainly not "native" to the area. I say this because it is so abundant now, it would have been impossible for the turn-of-the-century Brownsville collectors (Schaeffer, Barber, etc.) to have missed it. The earliest record I have seen for it is 1994. (E.G. Riley, pers. comm., 2010 to MAQ)

our only representative of the primarily Palaearctic and Afrotropical tribe Corylophini that contains one more genus (Corylophus Stephens)(2)

Works Cited

1.	American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea Arnett, R.H., Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.). 2002. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, FL.

2.	Phylogeny and classification of Corylophidae (Coleoptera: Cucujoidea) with descriptions of new genera and larvae Ślipiński A., Tomaszewska W., Lawrence J.F. 2009. Systematic Entomology 34: 409–433.

Contributed by v belov on 24 July, 2010 - 3:38pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn
Last updated 17 February, 2015 - 12:41pm

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