Agabus
A. uliginosus
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Dytiscidae
Tribe: Agabini
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
  • Agabus alexandrae Ribera, Hernando & Aguilera, 2001
  • Agabus alinae (Lafer, 1988)
  • Agabus ambiguus (Say, 1823)
  • Agabus ambulator Régimbart, 1895
  • Agabus amnicola (J.Sahlberg, 1880)
  • Agabus amoenus Solsky, 1874
  • Agabus ancillus Fall, 1922
  • Agabus angusi Nilsson, 1994
  • Agabus antennatus Leech, 1939
  • Agabus anthracinus Mannerheim, 1852
  • Agabus approximatus Fall, 1922
  • Agabus arcticus (Paykull, 1798)
  • Agabus aubei Perris, 1869
  • Agabus audeni Wallis, 1933
  • Agabus austinii Sharp, 1882
  • Agabus bakeri (Zimmermann, 1924)
  • Agabus basalis (Gebler, 1829)
  • Agabus bergi Zaitzev, 1913
  • Agabus bicolor (Kirby, 1837)
  • Agabus bifarius (Kirby, 1837)
  • Agabus biguttatus (Olivier, 1795)
  • Agabus biguttulus (Thomson, 1867)
  • Agabus binotatus Aubé, 1837
  • Agabus bipustulatus (Linnaeus, 1767)
  • Agabus blatta Jakovlev, 1897
  • Agabus brandti Harold, 1880
  • Agabus browni Kamiya, 1934
  • Agabus brunneus (Fabricius, 1798)
  • Agabus canadensis Fall, 1922
  • Agabus caraboides Sharp, 1882
  • Agabus cephalotes Reiche, 1861
  • Agabus charon Wickham, 1912
  • Agabus clavicornis Sharp, 1882
  • Agabus clypealis (Thomson, 1867)
  • Agabus colymbus Leech, 1938
  • Agabus confinis (Gyllenhal, 1808)
  • Agabus congener (Thunberg, 1794)
  • Agabus congeneroides Lomnicki, 1894
  • Agabus conspersus (Marsham, 1802)
  • Agabus conspicuus Sharp, 1873
  • Agabus corticeus Lomnicki, 1894
  • Agabus costulatus (Motschulsky, 1859)
  • Agabus coxalis Sharp, 1882
  • Agabus crassipes (Fall, 1922)
  • Agabus crypticoides Régimbart, 1895
  • Agabus debilipes Régimbart, 1899
  • Agabus dichrous Sharp, 1878
  • Agabus didymus (Olivier, 1795)
  • Agabus dilatatus (Brullé, 1832)
  • Agabus discolor (Harris, 1828)
  • Agabus disintegratus (Crotch, 1873)
  • Agabus dytiscoides Régimbart, 1908
  • Agabus elongatus (Gyllenhal, 1826)
  • Agabus erytropterus (Say, 1823)
  • Agabus faldermanni Zaitzev, 1927
  • Agabus falli (Zimmermann, 1934)
  • Agabus freudei Guéorguiev, 1975
  • Agabus friedrichi (Falkenström, 1936)
  • Agabus fulvaster Zaitzev, 1906
  • Agabus fulvipennis Régimbart, 1899
  • Agabus fuscipennis (Paykull, 1798)
  • Agabus galamensis Nilsson, 1992
  • Agabus glacialis Hochhuth, 1846
  • Agabus glazunovi (Zaitzev, 1953)
  • Agabus godmanni Crotch, 1867
  • Agabus granulatus (Falkenström, 1936)
  • Agabus gringo Larson, 2000
  • Agabus griseipennis LeConte, 1859
  • Agabus guttatus (Paykull, 1798)
  • Agabus heydeni Wehncke, 1872
  • Agabus hoppingi Leech, 1942
  • Agabus hummeli (Falkenström, 1936)
  • Agabus immaturus Larson, 1991
  • Agabus inexspectatus Nilsson, 1990
  • Agabus infuscatus Aubé, 1838
  • Agabus inscriptus (Crotch, 1873)
  • Agabus jacobsoni Zaitzev, 1905
  • Agabus japonicus Sharp, 1873
  • Agabus kaszabi Guéorguiev, 1972
  • Agabus kholini Nilsson, 1994
  • Agabus klamathensis Larson & Leech, 1989
  • Agabus kokoosson Feng, 1936
  • Agabus kootenai Larson, 1991
  • Agabus labiatus (Brahm, 1790)
  • Agabus laferi Nilsson, 1994
  • Agabus lagabrunensis Schizzerotto & Fery, 1989
  • Agabus lapponicus (Thomson, 1867)
  • Agabus leptapsis (LeConte, 1878)
  • Agabus lineatus Gebler, 1848
  • Agabus lithax Riha, 1961
  • Agabus lobonyx Guignot, 1952
  • Agabus loeffleri Wewalka & Nilsson, 1990
  • Agabus longissimus Régimbart, 1899
  • Agabus luteaster Zaitzev, 1906
  • Agabus lutosus LeConte, 1853
  • Agabus mackenziensis Larson, 1991
  • Agabus maderensis Wollaston, 1854
  • Agabus mandsuricus (Guignot, 1956)
  • Agabus margaretae Larson, 1975
  • Agabus matsumotoi Satô & Nilsson, 1990
  • Agabus melanarius Aubé, 1837
  • Agabus moestus (Curtis, 1835)
  • Agabus morosus LeConte, 1852
  • Agabus mucronatus (Falkenström, 1936)
  • Agabus nebulosus (Forster, 1771)
  • Agabus nevadensis Hå.Lindberg, 1939
  • Agabus niedzwiedzkii Lomnicki, 1894
  • Agabus obliteratus LeConte, 1859
  • Agabus oblongulus Fall, 1922
  • Agabus obsoletus LeConte, 1858
  • Agabus ommani Zaitzev, 1908
  • Agabus pallens Poppius, 1905
  • Agabus pallidus Omer-Cooper, 1931
  • Agabus paludosus (Fabricius, 1801)
  • Agabus parvulus Lomnicki, 1894
  • Agabus perditus Scudder, 1900
  • Agabus perssoni Nilsson, 1992
  • Agabus phaeopterus (Kirby, 1837)
  • Agabus philippensis (Zimmermann, 1924)
  • Agabus picotae Foster & Bilton, 1997
  • Agabus pisobius Leech, 1949
  • Agabus poppiusi Nilsson, 2003
  • Agabus pseudoclypealis Scholz, 1933
  • Agabus punctatus F.E.Melsheimer, 1844
  • Agabus punctulatus Aubé, 1838
  • Agabus raffrayi Sharp, 1882
  • Agabus ragazzii Régimbart, 1887
  • Agabus ramblae Millán & Ribera, 2001
  • Agabus rathbuni Scudder, 1900
  • Agabus regimbarti Zaitzev, 1906
  • Agabus reitteri Lomnicki, 1894
  • Agabus rottensis Nilsson, 2001
  • Agabus rufipennis (Gschwendtner, 1933)
  • Agabus rufulus Fairmaire, 1859
  • Agabus rumppi Leech, 1964
  • Agabus ruwenzoricus Guignot, 1936
  • Agabus safei Abdul-Karim & Ali, 1986
  • Agabus sasquatch Larson, 1991
  • Agabus semipunctatus (Kirby, 1837)
  • Agabus serricornis (Paykull, 1799)
  • Agabus setulosus (J.Sahlberg, 1895)
  • Agabus sikhotealinensis (Lafer, 1988)
  • Agabus sjostedti Régimbart, 1908
  • Agabus slovzovi (J.Sahlberg, 1880)
  • Agabus smithi Brown, 1930
  • Agabus solskii Jakovlev, 1897
  • Agabus strigulosus (Crotch, 1873)
  • Agabus striolatus (Gyllenhal, 1808)
  • Agabus sturmii (Gyllenhal, 1808)
  • Agabus subfuscatus Sharp, 1882
  • Agabus suoduogangi Stastný & Nilsson, 2003
  • Agabus svenhedini (Falkenström, 1932)
  • Agabus taeniolatus (Harris, 1828)
  • Agabus taiwanensis Nilsson & Wewalka, 1994
  • Agabus thomsoni (J.Sahlberg, 1871)
  • Agabus tibetanus Zaitzev, 1908
  • Agabus tristis Aubé, 1838
  • Agabus turcmenus Guignot, 1957
  • Agabus udege Nilsson, 1994
  • Agabus uliginosus (Linnaeus, 1761)
  • Agabus undulatus (Schrank, 1776)
  • Agabus ungeri (Heer, 1847)
  • Agabus unguicularis (Thomson, 1867)
  • Agabus uralensis Nilsson & Petrov, 2006
  • Agabus valdiviensis Gemminger & Harold, 1868
  • Agabus velox Leech, 1939
  • Agabus vereschaginae Angus, 1984
  • Agabus winkleri (Gschwendtner, 1923)
  • Agabus wollastoni Sharp, 1882
  • Agabus xyztrus Larson, 2000
  • Agabus yakutiae Nilsson & Larson, 1990
  • Agabus zetterstedti Thomson, 1856
  • Agabus zimmermanni Scholz, 1920

References

  1. ↑ Zool. Misc., 3: 69, 72. Type species: Agabus paykullii Leach, 1817 (= Dytiscus serricornis Paykull, 1799)
  2. 1 2 Ross H. Arnett, Michael C. Thomas (2002). American Beetles: Staphyliniformi. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press. ISBN 0849319250. P. 175-176.
  3. 1 2 Anders N. Nilsson, Mogens Holmen (1995). The Aquatic Adephaga (Coleoptera) of Fennoscandia and Denmark: II - Dytiscidea. Leiden - a.o.: Brill. ISBN 9004104569. P. 87.
  4. ↑ Foster, G. 1996. Agabus clypealis. In: IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Accessed on 28 November 2008.
  5. ↑ Foster, G. 1996. Agabus discicollis. In: IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Accessed on 28 November 2008.
  6. ↑ Foster, G. 1996. Agabus hozgargantae. In: IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Accessed on 28 November 2008.
  7. ↑ 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.
  8. ↑ 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.
  9. ↑ 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). Entomologica Basiliensia 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). Entomologica Scandinavica 13 (3): 333-338.
Nilsson, Anders N. (1986) Life cycle and habitats of the northern European Agabini (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae). Entomologica Basiliensia 11: 391-417, 1986.
Nilsson, Anders N. (1987) A key to the first instar larvae of Fennoscandian Agabus Leach (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae). Fauna Norvegica, 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). Koleopterologische Rundschau 70: 17–36.
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