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Contrasting Patterns Of Phylogeographic Relationships In Sympatric Sister Species Of Ironclad Beetles (Zopheridae: Phloeodes Spp.) In California's Transverse Ranges, Michael Caterino, Maxi Polihronakis Jun 2014

Contrasting Patterns Of Phylogeographic Relationships In Sympatric Sister Species Of Ironclad Beetles (Zopheridae: Phloeodes Spp.) In California's Transverse Ranges, Michael Caterino, Maxi Polihronakis

Michael S Caterino

Comparative phylogeography of sympatric sibling species provides an opportunity to isolate the effects of geography and demographics on the evolutionary history of two lineages over the same, known time scale. In the current study, we investigated the phylogeographic structure of two zopherid beetle species, Phloeodes diabolicus and P. plicatus, where their ranges overlap in California's Transverse Ranges.


Description Of The First Chlamydopsinae (Coleoptera: Histeridae) From The Philippines, Michael Caterino, Alexey Tishechkin Jun 2014

Description Of The First Chlamydopsinae (Coleoptera: Histeridae) From The Philippines, Michael Caterino, Alexey Tishechkin

Michael S Caterino

The first two species of the obligate inquilinous subfamily Chlamydopsinae (Coleoptera: Histeridae) from the Philippines, Eucurtiopsis ashei (Luzon Island) and E. avis (Negros Island), are described and illustrated. Positions of the new species within the genus and potential biogeographic connection of the Philippine chlamydopsine fauna are discussed.


Descriptions Of The First Chlamydopsinae (Coleoptera: Histeridae) From Wallacea, Michael Caterino Jun 2014

Descriptions Of The First Chlamydopsinae (Coleoptera: Histeridae) From Wallacea, Michael Caterino

Michael S Caterino

Collecting in Dumoga-Bone National Park in northeastern Sulawesi during The Royal Geographical Society’s 1985 ‘Project Wallace’ expedition resulted in the discovery of the first known Indonesian Chlamydopsinae. Ten new species are described in the genus Orectoscelis Lewis, previously known only from the Australian continent. The new taxa are O. demotus Caterino sp. n., O. punctatus Caterino sp. n., O. aurolepidus Caterino sp. n., O. circularis Caterino sp. n., O. dumogae Caterino sp. n., O. obliquus Caterino sp. n., O. elongatus Caterino
sp. n., O. hammondi Caterino sp. n., O. carinatus Caterino sp. n., and O. brendelli Caterino sp. n. The …