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Forest leaf litter beetles of Taiwan: first DNA barcodes and first insight into the fauna
Authors/Creators
- Hu, Fang-Shuo1
- Arriaga-Varela, Emmanuel2
- Biffi, Gabriel3
- Bocák, Ladislav4
- Bulirsch, Petr5
- Damaška, Albert František6
- Frisch, Johannes7
- Hájek, Jiří8
- Hlaváč, Peter8
- Ho, Bin-Hong1
- Ho, Yu-Hsiang9
- Hsiao, Yun10
- Jelínek, Josef8
- Klimaszewski, Jan11
- Kundrata, Robin4
- Löbl, Ivan12
- Makranczy, György13
- Matsumoto, Keita14
- Phang, Guan-Jie15
- Ruzzier, Enrico16
- Schülke, Michael17
- Švec, Zdeněk5
- Telnov, Dmitry18
- Tseng, Wei-Zhe19
- Yeh, Lan-Wei20
- Le, My-Hanh21
- Fikáček, Martin22
- 1. National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
- 2. Museum and Institute of Zoology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warszawa, Poland
- 3. Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
- 4. Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech Republic
- 5. Unaffiliated, Prague, Czech Republic
- 6. Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
- 7. Center for Integrated Biodiversity Discovery, Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- 8. Department of Entomology, National Museum, Prague, Czech Republic
- 9. National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan
- 10. National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
- 11. University of Alaska, Fairbanks, United States of America
- 12. Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, Genève, Switzerland
- 13. Department of Zoology, Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest, Hungary
- 14. Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom
- 15. Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
- 16. Roma Tre University, Roma, Italy|National Biodiversity Future Center, Palermo, Italy
- 17. Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin, Germany
- 18. Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom|University of Latvia, Rīga, Latvia|Daugavpils University, Daugavpils, Latvia
- 19. National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan
- 20. Tunghai University, Taichung, Taiwan
- 21. Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
- 22. Department of Entomology, National Museum, Prague, Czech Republic|National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
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We report the publication of 953 DNA barcodes of forest leaf litter beetles from central Taiwan, in total representing 334 species of 36 beetle families. This is the first bulk of data from the Taiwanese Leaf Litter beetles project focused on uncovering the under-explored diversity of leaf litter beetles across Taiwan. Based on these data, we provide the first records of the following taxa for Taiwan: family Sphindidae (genus Aspidiphorus Ziegler, 1821); tribes Trichonychini, Ctenistini, and Bythinoplectini (all Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae); genera Gyrelon Hinton, 1942, Thyroderus Sharp, 1885, Cautomus Sharp, 1885 (all Cerylonidae), Dermatohomoeus Hlisnikovský, 1963 (Leiodidae), Paraploderus Herman, 1970 (Staphylinidae: Oxytelinae), Thinocharis Kraatz, 1859 (Staphylinidae: Paederinae), Cephennodes Reitter, 1884, Napoconnus Franz, 1957 (both Staphylinidae: Scydmaeninae), Bicava Belon, 1884 (Latridiidae), Otibazo Morimoto, 1961, Seleuca Pascoe, 1871 and Acallinus Morimoto, 1962 (all Curculionidae); species Oodes (Lachnocrepis) japonicus (Bates, 1873) (Carabidae: Licininae), Drusilla obliqua (Bernhauer, 1916) (Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae) and Coccotrypes advena Blandford, 1894 (Curculionidae: Scolytinae). The records of Anapleus Horn, 1873 (Histeridae) and Batraxis Reitter, 1882 (Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae) have been confirmed. The male of Sivacrypticus taiwanicus Kaszab, 1964 (Archeocrypticidae) is described for the first time. Gyrelon jenpani Hu, Fikáček & Matsumoto, sp. nov. (Cerylonidae) is described, illustrated, and compared with related species. DNA barcodes associated larvae of 42 species with adults, we are concisely illustrating some of these: Oodes japonicus, Perigona cf. nigriceps Dejean, 1831 (both Carabidae), Ptilodactyla sp. (Ptilodactylidae), Maltypus ryukyuanus Wittmer, 1970 (Cantharidae), Drusilla obliqua, Myrmecocephalus brevisulcus (Pace, 2008), Diochus sp., Mimopinophilus sp. (all Staphylinidae), Stelidota multiguttata Reitter, 1877, Lasiodites inaequalis (Grouvelle, 1914) (both Nitidulidae), Lagria scutellaris Pic, 1910, and Anaedus spinicornis Kaszab, 1973 (both Tenebrionidae). We also report the first cases of Rickettsia infections in Scydmaeninae and Pselaphinae. All data (sequences, metadata, and voucher photos) are made public in BOLD database and in a Zenodo Archive.
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