Bisnius Stephens 1829
Description
Bisnius Stephens 1829
Bisnius Stephens 1829a: 23, attributed to Leach. Type species: Staphylinus cephalotes Gravenhorst,1802, by virtual monotypy.
Notes: There are 84 valid species of Bisnius distributed worldwide (Newton unpublished database). However, only three of them had been recorded from the Neotropical region and none of those was endemic to this area prior to the present study. A recent study (Chani-Posse et al. 2018) reveals Bisnius as a non-monophyletic genus within a major clade that includes representatives of both Gabrius Stephens and the so-called Neotropical lineage. After Stephens (1829b, 1832) and Curtis (1829), most authors considered Bisnius as a synonym or subgenus of Philonthus (see Herman 2001d: 2537) until Smetana (1995: 513) recognized it as a valid genus and revised its species from America North of Mexico. We owe its current concept to this author.
Bisnius cephalotes (Gravenhorst 1802) [adventive in CASA]
Staphylinus cephalotes Gravenhorst 1802: 22. Type locality: Brunsuigae [Brunswick, Germany]. Type depository: ZMHB LT ♂, 10 PLT. Distribution: Europe, Egypt, Algeria, Iceland, Madeira, Turkey, Syria, Russia (European, Siberia, Far East), Kazakhstan, Iran, Mongolia, China (Heilongjiang); Japan; adventive in Canada, USA, Chile, Argentina. Notes: comb. nov. ex Staphylinus (Stephens 1833: 247); preoccupied, junior primary homonym of Staphylinus cephalotes Gmelin 1790: 2036, but conserved, with senior primary homonym as a nomen oblitum, in Opinion 2053 (ICZN 2003); lectotype designation and description (Smetana 1995: 527).
Bisnius instabilis (Horn 1884)
Philonthus instabilis Horn 1884: 218. Type locality: Colorado [no specific locality]. Type depository: MCZ LT ♂, 2 PLT. Distribution: Canada, USA, Mexico. Notes: comb. nov. ex Philonthus, lectotype designation, no Mexican records (Smetana 1995: 599); distribution within (and including) Mexico (Navarrete-Heredia et al. 2002).
Bisnius sordidus (Gravenhorst 1802) [adventive in CASA]
Staphylinus sordidus Gravenhorst 1802: 176 (senior primary homonym of Staphylinus sordidus Marsham 1802: 514). Type locality: Brunsuigae [Germany]. Type depository: ZMHB LT ♂, 8 PLT. Distribution: Palearctic (Europe to north Africa, Turkey, Syria, Iran, Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Mongolia, Japan), Azores, Canary Is., Madeira, Japan, Mongolia, China, India (KA), Nepal; adventive in Canada, USA, Mexico, Chile, Argentina, Australia, New Zealand, Tristan da Cunha. Notes: as Philonthus (Stephens: 233); to Bisnius, lectotype designation, redescription and distribution including " Mexico and Central America to South America" (Smetana 1995: 523); distribution within Mexico (Navarrete-Heredia et al. 2002).
= Staphylinus chilensis Solier 1849: 315. Type locality: San Carlos, Coquimbo & Longotomo [Chile]. Type depository: MNHN? #? ST. Distribution: Chile. Note: as synonym of S. sordidus (Fauvel 1866: 344).
= Staphylinus chloropterus Solier 1849: 319 (preoccupied, junior primary homonym of Staphylinus chloropterus Panzer 1796: pl.20). Type locality: no specificic locality “en los lugares húmedos”. Type depository: MNHN? #?ST. Distribution: Chile. Note: as synonym of S. sordidus (Fauvel 1866: 344).
= Philonthus bruchi Bruch 1915: 501, attributed to Bernhauer in litteris; nomen nudum. Locality: Buenos Aires. Note: One specimen in MACN hand-labeled " Philonthus Bruchi Brh. tipo" by Bruch and " Bruchi n. sp." by Bernhauer was identified as Bisnius sordidus by MCP in 2010; an additional specimen in FMNH was identified as Bisnius cephalotes by MCP in 2003 (Bachmann et al. 2017: 44).
Bisnius subaeneipennis (Bernhauer 1916) comb. nov. (Figs. 53 –54)
Philonthus subaeneipennis Bernhauer 1916a: 32. Type locality: Columbien: Muzo (Rio Cantinerpe, 500m). Type depository: FMNH HT. Distribution: Colombia.
Type material examined. Holotype (FMNH, Figs. 53 –54): card mounted // Muzo, Colomb. Rio Cantinero 500m. oklio. // Columbio occ. Cali, Fassl (white label) // subaeneipennis Bernh Typus unic. [in Bernhauer’s hand] (yellow label)// Chicago NHMus M.Bernhauer Collection (white label)”.
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Biodiversity
- Collection code
- FMNH
- Family
- Staphylinidae
- Genus
- Bisnius
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Stephens
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- holotype
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- Bisnius Stephens, 1829 sec. Chani-Posse, Newton, Hansen & Solodovnikov, 2018
References
- Stephens, J. F. (1829 a) A systematic catalogue of British insects: being an attempt to arrange all the hitherto discovered indigenous insects in accordance with their natural affinities, containing also the references to every English writer on entomology, and to the principal foreign authors, with all the published British genera to the present time. Baldwin & Cradock, London, xxxiv + 416 + 388 pp.
- Gravenhorst, J. L. C. (1802) Coleoptera Microptera Brunsvicencia nec non exoticorum quotquot exstant in collectionibus entomologorum brunvicencsium in genera familias et species distribuit. Carolus Reichard, Brunsvigae, 206 pp.
- Chani-Posse, M. R., Brunke, A. J., Chatzimanolis, S., Schillhammer, H. & Solodovnikov, A. (2018) Phylogeny of the hyperdiverse rove beetle subtribe Philonthina with implications for classification of the tribe Staphylinini (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae). Cladistics, 34 (1), 1 - 40. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / cla. 12188
- Stephens, J. F. (1829 b) The Nomenclature of British Insects; Being a Compendious List of Such Species as are Contained in the Systematic Catalogue of British Insects, and Forming a Guide to their Classification. Baldwin & Cradock, London, 68 pp. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 51800
- Stephens, J. F. (1832) Illustrations of British entomology, or a synopsis of indigenous insects, containing their generic and specific distinctions, with an account of their metamorphoses, times of appearance, localities, food, and economy, as far as practicable. Vol. 5. Mandibulata. Baldwin & Cradock, London, 240 pp., pls. 24 - 26.
- Curtis, J. (1829) A guide to an arrangement of British insects; being a catalogue of all the named species hitherto discovered in Great Britain and Ireland. J. Curtis, London, 256 columns.
- Herman, L. H. (2001 d) Catalog of the Staphylinidae (Insecta: Coleoptera). 1758 to the end of the second millennium. Part V. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 265, 2441 - 3020.
- Smetana, A. (1995) Rove beetles of the subtribe Philonthina of America north of Mexico (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae): Classification, phylogeny and taxonomic revision. Memoirs on Entomology, International, 3, 1 - 946. https: // doi. org / 10.2307 / 3495761
- Stephens, J. F. (1833) Illustrations of British entomology, or a synopsis of indigenous insects, containing their generic and specific distinctions, with an account of their metamorphoses, times of appearance, localities, food, and economy, as far as practicable. Vol. 5. Mandibulata. Baldwin & Cradock, London, pp. 241 - 304, pl. 27.
- Gmelin, J. F. (1790) Caroli a Linne, … Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima tertia, aucta, reformata. Vol. 1. Part 4. G. E. Beer, Lipsiae, 708 pp. [pp. 1517 - 2224]
- ICZN (2003) Opinion 2053 (Case 3207). Staphylinidae Latreille, 1804 (Insecta, Coleoptera): 65 specific names conserved. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, 60 (3), 237 - 246.
- Horn, G. H. (1884) Synopsis of the Philonthi of Boreal America. Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 11, 177 - 244. https: // doi. org / 10.2307 / 25076437
- Navarrete-Heredia, J. L., Newton, A. F., Thayer, M. K., Ashe, J. S. & Chandler, D. S. (2002) Guia ilustrada para los generos de Staphylinidae (Coleoptera) de Mexico. Illustrated guide to the genera of Staphylinidae (Coleoptera) of Mexico. Universidad de Guadalajara y Conabio, Mexico, 401 pp.
- Solier, A. J. J. (1849) Orden III. Coleopteros. In: Gay, C. (Ed.), Historia Fisica y Politica de Chile. Zoologia. Vol. 4. Paris, pp. 105 - 380, 414 - 511, pls. 1 - 12.
- Fauvel, A. (1866) Faune du Chili. Insectes Coleopteres. Staphylinides .. Bulletin de la Societe Linneenne de Normandie, 10, 250 - 353, pl. 4.
- Bruch, C. (1915) Catalogo sistematico de los coleopteros de la Republica Argentina. II. Revista del Museo de La Plata, 19, 471 - 526.
- Bachmann, A. O., Chani-Posse, M., Guala, M. E. & Newton, A. F. (2017) A catalog of the types of Staphylinidae (Insecta, Coleoptera) deposited in the Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales, Buenos Aires (MACN). Zootaxa, 4223 (1), 1 - 74. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4223.1.1
- Bernhauer, M. (1916 a) Zur Staphylinidenfauna des tropischen Amerika, insbesondere der columbischen Cordilleren (15. Beitrag). Coleopterologische Rundschau, 5 (4 - 6), 25 - 40.