Agathidium Panzer, 1797: 13

Peck, Stewart B. & Newton, Alfred F., 2017, An Annotated Catalog of the Leiodidae (Coleoptera) of the Nearctic Region (Continental North America North of Mexico), The Coleopterists Bulletin 71 (2), pp. 211-258 : 230

Agathidium Panzer, 1797: 13 . Type species: Tet-

ratoma globosa Herbst, 1791 (= A. seminulum

(Linnaeus, 1758)) (by monotypy).

Note. Authority given as Illiger in Kugelann (1794) (Neave 1939–1940), but that refers to page 13 in Panzer (1797).

Taxonomy. Fall (1934a), Newton (1984), Wheeler (1984a, b), Miller and Wheeler (2005a, b), and Wheeler and Miller (2005). North American species below are arranged following Wheeler and Miller (2005) and Miller and Wheeler (2005b), and these publications contain keys for identification.

Biology. Adults and larvae of the species generally eat plasmodia or fruiting bodies of Myxomycetacea slime molds (Lawrence and Newton 1982; Newton 1984; Wheeler and Miller 2005).

Distribution. Holarctic, Oriental, New Guinea, Mexico, Guatemala, Dominican Republic (825 species). New (unpublished) state and province records are included in the distributions below based on SBP voucher specimens deposited in CMNC.

= Volvoxis Kugelann, 1794: 535 (NOT preoccupied

by Volvox Linnaeus ). Type species: Tetratoma

globosa Herbst, 1791 (= A. seminulum (Linnaeus, 1758) (designated by Newton 1998: 95)). Nomen oblitum (Wheeler and Miller 2005: 34).

= Agathidium Illiger, 1798: 81 . New name for Volvoxis (in part, supposedly preoccuped by Volvox Linnaeus, 1758 ).

= Chaetoceble Sainte-Claire-Deville, 1899: 292 (as subgenus of Agathidium ). Type species: Agathidium pilosum Sainte-Claire-Deville, 1899 (by original designation). Subgenus not currently used in Nearctic region (Wheeler and Miller 2005).

= Cyphoceble C. G. Thomson, 1859: 59 . Type species: Anisotoma staphylaeum Gyllenhal, 1810 (= A. nigrum Sturm, 1807 ) (by original designation). Subgenus (e.g., Hatch 1929: 78) not currently used in Nearctic region (Wheeler and Miller 2005).

= Saccoceble Gozis, 1886: 17 (as subgenus of Agathidium ). Type species: Agathidium discoideum Erichson (by original designation). Synonym of subgenus Cyphoceble .

= Euryceble Hlisnikovský, 1964: 123 (as subgenus of Agathidium ). Type species: Agathidium antennatum Hlisnikovský, 1964 (by original designation). Subgenus not currently used in Nearctic region (Wheeler and Miller 2005).

= Macroceble Angelini, 1993: 30 (as subgenus of Agathidium ). Type species: Agathidium shermathangense Angelini and De Marzo, 1981 (by original designation). Subgenus not currently used in Nearctic region (Wheeler and Miller 2005).

= Microceble Angelini and De Marzo, 1986: 439 (as subgenus of Agathidium ). Type species: Agathidium grouvellei Portevin, 1907 (by original designation). Subgenus not currently used in Nearctic region (Wheeler and Miller 2005).

= Neoceble Gozis, 1886: 16 (as subgenus of Agathidium ). Type species: Agathidium marginatum Sturm, 1807 (by original designation). Subgenus not currently used in Nearctic region (Wheeler and Miller 2005).

= Stigmoceble Hlisnikovský, 1964: 119 (as subgenus of Agathidium ). Type species: Agathidium longicorne Portevin, 1908 (by original designation). Angelini 1986: 149 (synonym of subgenus Neoceble ).

= Rhabdoelytrum Hlisnikovský, 1964: 31 (as subgenus of Agathidium ). Type species: Agathidium sexstriatum Horn, 1880 (by original designation). Subgenus not currently used in Nearctic region (Wheeler and Miller 2005).