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REVISION OF THE NEARCTIC SPECIES OF ATHOUS (COLEOPTERA: ELATERIDAE) EAST OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 31 May 2012
Abstract
The Nearctic species of the elaterid genus Athous east of the Rocky Mountains are revised. Of the 16 included species, two are described as new (neacanthus known from southern Quebec to northern Georgia and orvus known from Nova Scotia to Michigan to Virginia) and two species are transferred from Denticollis, namely, productus (Randall) and quadrosa Becker (as a new junior synonym of A. appalachius Van Dyke). Other new synonymies are: carolinus Van Dyke as a junior synonym of acanthus (Say), erebus Van Dyke of posticus (Melsheimer), and bipunctatus Provancher of productus (Randall). The European species campyloides is known from North America from near Quebec City and in the Canadian Maritime Provinces. Neotypes are designated for the five species described by Say and Randall and for one described by Melsheimer; lectotypes, when needed, are designated for LeConte’s, Melsheimer’s, and Candèze’s species. A key to the species is presented and the salient features and distribution maps for each species are included. Brief notes are given on three western species of Athous: two common species (rufiventris (Eschscholtz) and nigropilis Motschulsky) that are occasionally found east of the Rockies and orophilus Harold, which is known only by the type from the Bitter Root Mountains. Brief discussions are included of two European species, vittatus (Fabricius) and subfuscus (Müller), which have been intercepted at various eastern ports in Canada and the United States, but which have not become established in North America.
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