Agabus (beetle)
Agabus | |
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A. uliginosus | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Coleoptera |
Family: | Dytiscidae |
Tribe: | |
Genus: | Agabus Leach, 1817 |
Agabus is a large genus of predatory aquatic beetles in the family Dytiscidae, proposed in 1817 by William Elford Leach[1] and named after Agabus, an early follower of Christianity. The adult beetles are moderate-sized, 5 to 14 mm long. The genus is primarily Holarctic in distribution, with only a few species known from the Afrotropical and Neotropical realms.[2][3] Three species of Agabus, namely A. clypealis,[4] A. discicollis[5] and A. hozgargantae[6] are endangered according to the IUCN Red List. The division into subgenera is not widely accepted. However, a number of species groups are recognized after the works of David J. Larson and Anders N. Nilsson.[3] The genus is probably polyphyletic or paraphyletic.[2] In a recent study of mitochondrial DNA, Agabus was found paraphyletic with respect to several of the species groups of Platambus, a closely related genus in the tribe Agabini.[7] Lately the taxonomy of the genus has been revised, and some groups of species were transferred from Agabus sensu stricto to other genera in the tribe Agabini.[8]
Agabus contains the following species:[9]
- Agabus abessinicus (Zimmermann, 1928)
- Agabus adpressus Aubé, 1837
- Agabus adustus Guignot, 1954
- Agabus aequabilis (Gschwendtner, 1923)
- Agabus aequalis Sharp, 1882
- Agabus aeruginosus Aubé, 1838
- Agabus affinis (Paykull, 1798)
- Agabus africanus Pederzani & Schizzerotto, 1998
- Agabus ajax Fall, 1922
- Ribera, Hernando & Aguilera, 2001
- (Lafer, 1988)
- Agabus ambiguus (Say, 1823)
- Régimbart, 1895
- (J.Sahlberg, 1880)
- Solsky, 1874
- Agabus ancillus Fall, 1922
- Nilsson, 1994
- Agabus antennatus Leech, 1939
- Agabus anthracinus Mannerheim, 1852
- Agabus approximatus Fall, 1922
- Agabus arcticus (Paykull, 1798)
- Perris, 1869
- Agabus audeni Wallis, 1933
- Agabus austinii Sharp, 1882
- (Zimmermann, 1924)
- (Gebler, 1829)
- Zaitzev, 1913
- Agabus bicolor (Kirby, 1837)
- Agabus bifarius (Kirby, 1837)
- Agabus biguttatus (Olivier, 1795)
- (Thomson, 1867)
- Aubé, 1837
- Agabus bipustulatus (Linnaeus, 1767)
- Jakovlev, 1897
- Harold, 1880
- Kamiya, 1934
- Agabus brunneus (Fabricius, 1798)
- Agabus canadensis Fall, 1922
- Sharp, 1882
- Reiche, 1861
- Wickham, 1912
- Agabus clavicornis Sharp, 1882
- Agabus clypealis (Thomson, 1867)
- Leech, 1938
- Agabus confinis (Gyllenhal, 1808)
- Agabus congener (Thunberg, 1794)
- Lomnicki, 1894
- (Marsham, 1802)
- Sharp, 1873
- Lomnicki, 1894
- (Motschulsky, 1859)
- Sharp, 1882
- (Fall, 1922)
- Régimbart, 1895
- Régimbart, 1899
- Sharp, 1878
- Agabus didymus (Olivier, 1795)
- (Brullé, 1832)
- Agabus discolor (Harris, 1828)
- Agabus disintegratus (Crotch, 1873)
- Régimbart, 1908
- Agabus elongatus (Gyllenhal, 1826)
- (Say, 1823)
- Zaitzev, 1927
- Agabus falli (Zimmermann, 1934)
- Guéorguiev, 1975
- (Falkenström, 1936)
- Zaitzev, 1906
- Régimbart, 1899
- Agabus fuscipennis (Paykull, 1798)
- Nilsson, 1992
- Hochhuth, 1846
- (Zaitzev, 1953)
- Crotch, 1867
- (Falkenström, 1936)
- Larson, 2000
- Agabus griseipennis LeConte, 1859
- (Paykull, 1798)
- Wehncke, 1872
- Leech, 1942
- (Falkenström, 1936)
- Larson, 1991
- Nilsson, 1990
- Agabus infuscatus Aubé, 1838
- Agabus inscriptus (Crotch, 1873)
- Zaitzev, 1905
- Sharp, 1873
- Guéorguiev, 1972
- Nilsson, 1994
- Agabus klamathensis Larson & Leech, 1989
- Feng, 1936
- Agabus kootenai Larson, 1991
- (Brahm, 1790)
- Nilsson, 1994
- Schizzerotto & Fery, 1989
- (Thomson, 1867)
- Agabus leptapsis (LeConte, 1878)
- Gebler, 1848
- Riha, 1961
- Guignot, 1952
- Wewalka & Nilsson, 1990
- Régimbart, 1899
- Zaitzev, 1906
- Agabus lutosus LeConte, 1853
- Larson, 1991
- Wollaston, 1854
- (Guignot, 1956)
- Larson, 1975
- Satô & Nilsson, 1990
- Agabus melanarius Aubé, 1837
- (Curtis, 1835)
- LeConte, 1852
- (Falkenström, 1936)
- (Forster, 1771)
- Hå.Lindberg, 1939
- Lomnicki, 1894
- Agabus obliteratus LeConte, 1859
- Fall, 1922
- LeConte, 1858
- Zaitzev, 1908
- Poppius, 1905
- Omer-Cooper, 1931
- Agabus paludosus (Fabricius, 1801)
- Lomnicki, 1894
- Scudder, 1900
- Nilsson, 1992
- Agabus phaeopterus (Kirby, 1837)
- (Zimmermann, 1924)
- Foster & Bilton, 1997
- Agabus pisobius Leech, 1949
- Nilsson, 2003
- Scholz, 1933
- Agabus punctatus F.E.Melsheimer, 1844
- Agabus punctulatus Aubé, 1838
- Sharp, 1882
- Régimbart, 1887
- Agabus ramblae Millán & Ribera, 2001
- Scudder, 1900
- Zaitzev, 1906
- Lomnicki, 1894
- Nilsson, 2001
- (Gschwendtner, 1933)
- Fairmaire, 1859
- Leech, 1964
- Guignot, 1936
- Abdul-Karim & Ali, 1986
- Larson, 1991
- Agabus semipunctatus (Kirby, 1837)
- (Paykull, 1799)
- (J.Sahlberg, 1895)
- (Lafer, 1988)
- Régimbart, 1908
- (J.Sahlberg, 1880)
- Agabus smithi Brown, 1930
- Jakovlev, 1897
- Agabus strigulosus (Crotch, 1873)
- Agabus striolatus (Gyllenhal, 1808)
- Agabus sturmii (Gyllenhal, 1808)
- Sharp, 1882
- Stastný & Nilsson, 2003
- (Falkenström, 1932)
- (Harris, 1828)
- Nilsson & Wewalka, 1994
- (J.Sahlberg, 1871)
- Zaitzev, 1908
- Agabus tristis Aubé, 1838
- Guignot, 1957
- Nilsson, 1994
- Agabus uliginosus (Linnaeus, 1761)
- Agabus undulatus (Schrank, 1776)
- (Heer, 1847)
- (Thomson, 1867)
- Nilsson & Petrov, 2006
- Gemminger & Harold, 1868
- Leech, 1939
- Angus, 1984
- (Gschwendtner, 1923)
- Sharp, 1882
- Larson, 2000
- Nilsson & Larson, 1990
- Thomson, 1856
- Scholz, 1920
References[]
- ^ Zool. Misc., 3: 69, 72. Type species: Leach, 1817 (= Dytiscus serricornis Paykull, 1799)
- ^ a b Ross H. Arnett, Michael C. Thomas (2002). American Beetles: Staphyliniformi. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press. ISBN 0849319250. P. 175-176.
- ^ a b Anders N. Nilsson, Mogens Holmen (1995). The Aquatic Adephaga (Coleoptera) of Fennoscandia and Denmark: II - Dytiscidea. Leiden - a.o.: Brill. ISBN 9004104569. P. 87.
- ^ Foster, G. 1996. Agabus clypealis. In: IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Accessed on 28 November 2008.
- ^ Foster, G. 1996. Agabus discicollis. In: IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Accessed on 28 November 2008.
- ^ Foster, G. 1996. Agabus hozgargantae. In: IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Accessed on 28 November 2008.
- ^ Ignacio Ribera, Anders N. Nilsson, Alfried P. Vogler (2004). Phylogeny and historical biogeography of Agabinae diving beetles (Coleoptera) inferred from mitochondrial DNA sequences. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 30 (3): 545-562.
- ^ Nilsson, A.N. (June 2000). "A new view on the generic classification of the Agabus-group of genera of the Agabini, aimed at solving the problem with a paraphyletic Agabus (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae)". Koleopterologische Rundschau. 70: 17–36.
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- ^ Dytiscidae Species List at Joel Hallan's Biology Catalog. Texas A&M University. Retrieved on 7 May 2012.
Further reading[]
- Hilsenhoff, W.L. (1986) Life history strategies of some Nearctic Agabini (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae). 11: 385-390.
- Larson D.J. (1989). Revision of North American Agabus Leach (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae): introduction, key to species groups, and classification of the ambiguus-, tristis- and arcticus-groups. The Canadian Entomologist 121: 861-919.
- Larson D.J. (1991). Revision of North American Agabus Leach (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae): elongatus-, zetterstedti-, and confinis-groups. The Canadian Entomologist 123: 1239-1317.
- Larson D.J. (1994). Revision of North American Agabus Leach (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae): lutosus-, obsoletus-, and fuscipennis-groups. The Canadian Entomologist 126: 135-181.
- Larson D.J. (1996). Revision of North American Agabus Leach (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae): the opacus-group. The Canadian Entomologist 128: 613-665.
- Larson D.J. (1997). Revision of North American Agabus Leach (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae): the seriatus-group. The Canadian Entomologist 129: 105-149.
- Larson D.J., Alarie Y., Roughley R.E. (2000) Predaceous diving beetles (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae) of the Nearctic Region, with emphasis on the fauna of Canada and Alaska. Ottawa: NRC Research Press. ISBN 0660179679.
- Larson, D.J. & Nilsson, A.N. (1985) The Holarctic species of Agabus (sensu lato) Leach (Coleoptera: Dystiscidae). The Canadian Entomologist 117: 119-130.
- Larson D.J. & Wolfe R.W. (1998). Revision of North American Agabus (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae): the semivittatus-group. The Canadian Entomologist 130: 27-54.
- Nilsson, Anders N. (1982). A key to the identification of the known third-stage larvae of the Fennoscandian species of the genus Agabus (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae). 13 (3): 333-338.
- Nilsson, Anders N. (1986) Life cycle and habitats of the northern European Agabini (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae). 11: 391-417, 1986.
- Nilsson, Anders N. (1987) A key to the first instar larvae of Fennoscandian Agabus Leach (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae). , Series B 34 (2): 131-137.
- Nilsson, Anders N. (1992) A revision of Afrotropical Agabus Leach (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae), and the evolution of tropicoalpine super specialists. Systematic Entomology 17 (2), 155-179.
- Nilsson, Anders N. (2000) A new view on the generic classification of the Agabus-group of genera of the Agabini, aimed at solving the problem with a paraphyletic Agabus (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae). 70: 17–36.
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