All scientific names of Trachypachidae, Rhysodidae, and Carabidae (including cicindelines) recorded from America north of Mexico are catalogued. Available species-group names are listed in their original combinations with the author(s), year of publication, page citation, type locality, location of the name-bearing type, and etymology for many patronymic names. In addition, the reference in which a given species-group name is first synonymized is recorded for invalid taxa. Genus-group names are listed with the author(s), year of publication, page citation, type species with way of fixation, and etymology for most. The reference in which a given genus-group name is first synonymized is recorded for many invalid taxa. Family-group names are listed with the author(s), year of publication, page citation, and type genus. The geographical distribution of all species-group taxa is briefly summarized and their state and province records are indicated.

One new genus-group taxon, Randallius new subgenus (type species: Chlaenius purpuricollis Randall, 1838), one new replacement name, Pterostichus amadeus new name for Pterostichus vexatus Bousquet, 1985, and three changes in precedence, Ellipsoptera rubicunda (Harris, 1911) for Ellipsoptera marutha (Dow, 1911), Badister micans LeConte, 1844 for Badister ocularis Casey, 1920, and Agonum deplanatum Menetries, 1843 for Agonum fallianum (Leng, 1919), are proposed. Five new genus-group synonymies and 65 new species-group synonymies, one new species-group status, and 12 new combinations (see Appendix 5) are established.

The work also includes a discussion of the notable private North American carabid collections, a synopsis of all extant world geadephagan tribes and subfamilies, a brief faunistic assessment of the fauna, a list of valid species-group taxa, a list of North American fossil Geadephaga (Appendix 1), a list of North American Geadephaga larvae described or illustrated (Appendix 2), a list of Geadephaga species described from specimens mislabeled as from North America (Appendix 3), a list of unavailable Geadephaga names listed from North America (Appendix 4), a list of nomenclatural acts included in this catalogue (Appendix 5), a complete bibliography with indication of the dates of publication in addition to the year, and indices of personal names, supraspecific names, and species-group names.

Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera: Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico

We provide a list of the 392 described species of Staphylinidae confined to coastal habitats worldwide. The list is in taxonomic sequence by subfamily, tribe, and genus and includes 91 genera. We provide the page reference of the original description of every species and genus listed and of many synonyms. We note the existence of recent reviews, phylogenies and keys of each of the tribes and genera included. Coastal Staphylinidae contain eight subfamilies: Microsilphinae, Omaliinae, Pselaphinae, Aleocharinae, Oxytelinae, Scydmaeninae, Paederinae, and Staphylininae.

By ‘coastal habitats’ we mean habitats existing on the sea coast and subject to inundation or at least splashing by the very highest tides. This includes rocky, boulder, coral, sandy, and muddy seashores, and at least portions of salt-marshes, estuaries, and mangrove swamps. We exclude the sand dune habitat and higher parts of sea-cliffs.

The list notes distribution of all the species, first according to the ocean or sea on whose shores it has been recorded, and second by country (and for the larger countries by province or state). Although this distribution is undoubtedly incomplete, it provides a basis for future development of a dedicated database.

The ‘Habitats, Habits, and Classificatory Notes’ section is designed to provide ecologists with further taxonomic and ecological information. It includes references to descriptions of the immature stages, behavior of adults and immatures, their food, natural enemies, and habitat. We would have preferred to separate these entities, but current knowledge of ecology is developed in few instances beyond natural history.

The Pacific Ocean basin was the origin and contributed to the dispersal of the majority of specialist coastal Staphylinidae at the level of genus. However, at the level of species, species belonging to non-coastal-specialist genera are about as likely to occur on the shores of other oceans as on the shores of the Pacific. This difference is a reflection of the antiquity of coastal genera and species.

A complete bibliography, and habitat and habitus photographs of some representative coastal Staphylinidae species are provided.

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Coastal Staphylinidae (Coleoptera): A worldwide checklist, biogeography and natural history

The prey detection methods of 12 species of Carabidae and one species of Staphylinidae were investigated using video and orientation techniques. The species examined were Cicindela campestris, Cychrus caraboides, Carabus problematicus, C. violaceus, Calosoma maderae, Nebria complanata, Scarites abbreviates, Broscus cephaloles, Pterostichus madidus, P. melanarius, P. niger, Abax parallelepipedus and Staphylinus olens.



All the species examined were seen to respond to prey upon contact (either by tactile or gustatory reception) during locomotor activity. Tests using orientation chambers showed that some of the species would orientate towards prey in the absence of contact. Some species orientated using vision (C. campestris, C. maderae, S. abbreviates, A. parallelepipedus). This was most frequent when tested with fast-moving prey. In others, orientation towards prey occurred when olfactory cues were available (P. madidus, P. melanarius, P. niger and A.parallelepipedus). All of the species employing this method of prey detection belonged to the Pterostichini and it appears that the receptors involved are situated on the antennae. Although some species did not orientate towards prey in the absence of contact cues, some of these species were found to respond to slug mucus (C. caraboides, C. problematicus, C. violaceus and S. abbreviates). The receptors for this are probably situated on the terminal ends of the palps. The method of prey detection used is discussed in relation to the ecology of the species.

Prey detection by some predatory Coleoptera (Carabidae and Staphylinidae)

CHAPTER 16 – Terrestrial Arthropod Predators of Insect and Mite Pests

Defensive secretions and exocrine glands in free-living staphylinid bettles—their bearing on phylogeny (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae)

In a recent article by Orth, Moore, Fisher, and Legner (975) laboratory studies of the snail eating habits of an adult specimen of Ocypus dens M/iller were reported. Since then there has been opportunity to conduct similar studies of sever.al larvae of the same species. The egg remains unknown. These larvae readily consumed snails, thus also demonstrating a potential or snail control. This view is urther encouraged in the Riverside garden of one of the authors (I. Moore) which has a well established population of 0. olens but a very low population of Helix aspersa Miiller (brown garden sn’ail). Other nearby gardens where O. olens appears no.t to be established have much higher population densities o.f H. aspersa. The host snail employed in our laboratory studies was Helix aspersa. In California this snail has long been considered a major agricultural and suburban pest with an omnivorous diet which includes living and decaying vegetables, flowers, ground cover, citrus leaves and fruit as well as paper labels and cardboard cartons and cadavers of its own species. The rove beetle Ocypus olens, sometimes referred to as the devil’s coach horse, is .a large (to 32 ram) black staphylinid indigenous to Europe. In North America it is kno.wn only trom California where it was first reco.rded in southern California in I93I (Orth, et al., 975). Since that time distributional records extend about six hundred miles to the north. In Ca.liornia both Ocypus olens and Helix aspersa seem to. prefer cultivated or landscaped habitats. In the field we have seen .and collected O. olens only in areas disturbed by man. This beetle therefore would seem to pose no threat to California’s native land snails, which are generally found in the undisturbed hillsides, mountains, and deserts.

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Biological notes on ocypus olens, a predator of brown garden snail, with descriptions of the larva and pupa (coleoptera: staphylinidae)

Platystethus is a relatively small genus (35 described species) with only two species being known to be indigenous to the United States. The Nearctic species were reviewed by Moore and Legner (1971). The larva of one of these, P. americanus Erichson, was described and illustrated by Paulian (1941). The larvae of the other species, P. spiculus Erichson, is described here. It goes to Platystethus in Paulian’s (1941) key to the genera of the larvae of the Staphylinoidea. Several larvae were taken by Berlese extraction as previously described (Legner et al., 1975) in company with many adults of P. spiculus in bovine manure that, at the time, contained no other staph3;linids. Ten to 25 L samples were taken at random from bovine feces deposited in green and dry irrigated pastures at 3 sites near Calexico, California between 9 AM and 11 AM over several sample dates from October 22, 1974 to April 22, 1975. Two age groups of manure were distinguished" 12 hr and 24-48 hr old.

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The Larva of Platystethus Spiculus Erichson (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) and its Occurrence in Bovine Feces in Irrigated Pastures

Oligota ovi[ormis was described by Casey in 1893. Quayle (1912, I913) called attention to the fact that both larvae and adults were predaceous on spider mites and consequently beneficial in orchards where mites were a pest. Quayle partially outlined the life history of O. ovi[ormis but was unable to, induce pupation. Ewing (I914) and Essig (1926) reviewed Quayle’s work. Badgley and Fleschner (I956) were able to induce pupation by providing a floor of sand in which pupation took place. However, little detailed description of the early stages was provided. A brief account of the osmeterium of the larva and its protective opercula was given by Badgley and Fleschner. The osmeterium is o,f particul’ar interest as its occurrence appears to be widespread anaong the Aleocharinae, although it has been misinterpreted (Badgley and Fleschner, I956). Larva of Oligota oviformis Casey Length 2.1 mm (mature larva). Body elongate, subcylindrical, tapered at each end; integuments soft, not chitinize.d, without distinct sclerites; pale testaceous with the opercula of the osmeterium piceous, darkest along the posterior margin of eighth tergite, osmeterium bright orange. Head oval, about as wide as long, with a single ocellus on each side behind the antennal tossae. Epicranial suture absent. Antennal fossae located at sides of head outside the bases of the mandibles. Antennae three-segmented; first segment about as long as wide; second segment narrower than first, a little more than twice as long as wide, with two long setae near the middle and a modified "acorn seta" without obvious articulation at base; third segment about half as wide as second and a little more than twice as wide, with two long setae at apical third and a shorter

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Description of the Developmental Stages of the Mite Predator, Oligota oviformis Casey, with Notes on the Osmeterium and Its Glands (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae)

A number of insects are restricted to special marine habitats along the California seashore. At least one of these habitats is intertidal in the sense that its fauna is regularly submerged by the tides. This is the fauna of the reefs. Several species of staphylinids are known from this region. Members of the staphylinid genera Liparocephalus, Amblopusa and Diaulota are found on the rocky shores of northern California; while in southern California only members of the genera Diaulota and Bryothinusa are known. Several studies have dealt with these insects including Chamberlain and Ferris (1929) and Moore (1956a, 1956b). Larvae of some of the species have been described. The larva of Bryothinusa catalinae Casey is described and illustrated for the first time in this paper. Bryothinusa catalinae (Fig. I), the type species of the genus, was described by Casey in 1904. Sawada (1955, 1971) described four species from Japan under the name Halaesthenus. Several species were described from the harbor at Hong Kong by Moore and Legner (1971) and Moore, Legner and Chan (1973). Finally, another species was made known by Moore and Legner (1975) from the Gulf of California, bringing the total number of known species to eleven. All but one of these is restricted to an intertidal habitat; the exception being B.fluenta Moore et al. which was found by TaiDin Chan in a strictly fresh water habitat in a stream emptying into Hong Kong harbor. Bryothinusa catalinae is not common in collections probably because of its restricted habitat. Derharn Giuliani collected ten adult specimens of this species incidental to other work in October, 1976, near White Point, San Pedro, California, and presented the specimens to us. We made two trips to the area in November and December, 1977, where we found both adults and larvae fairly common. This special habitat may be described as follows:

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Notes on Bryothinusa with Description of the Larva of B. catalinae Casey (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae)

Larvae of Staphylinidae are difficult to associate with adults except in some specialized habitats where few species are present. In the intertidal habitat it has been possible to associate adults and larvae when they are present. The present larva is identified by its size, color and association with adults. Rothium sonorensis Moore & Legner (1977) is a recently described genus and species of intertidal rove beetle from the Gulf of California belonging to the tribe Bolitocharini.

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The Larva of Rothium sonorensis Moore & Legner, with a Key to the Known Larvae of the Genera of the Marine Bolitocharini (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae)

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