Family Heteroceridae

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Алексей Сажнев, 30.05.2010 19:19

I didn't find any topics on this group of aquatic coleoptera on the forum, so I decided to open a new one.

Representatives of this family are mainly near-water inhabitants. Adult beetles and larvae live in wet sand or mud along the banks of various types of water bodies (fresh and often brackish), larvae make burrows; adults and larvae are herbivorous, consuming algae and, apparently, dead remains of plant origin. Pupation occurs in a mud cocoon (Kireichuk, 2001). Adults actively fly to the light.

The coloration of species is highly variable, and sometimes their determination is problematic; reliable determination is largely possible only when studying the genitals of males. Therefore, I think it will be interesting to track the various color options of representatives of this family.

I'll probably start with one of the most common types we have -

Heterocerus (Heterocerus) fenestratus (Thunberg, 1784)

The species is found along the coasts of various reservoirs

Illustrations:

1. general view, dorsally and elytra, dorsally (according to: Kireychuk, 2001)
(designations: SC - scuteloid spot, PP - U-shaped shoulder spot, LP-lateral spots)
2. male genitalia (according to Kireychuk, 2001)
(designations: 1-edeagus, 2 - apodema of edeagus, 3-tegmen, 4 - pennis trunk)
3. photo: U. Schmidt, 2006 - http://www.kaefer-der-welt.de/heterocerus__fenestratus.htm
4. photo: Christoph Benisch - http://www.kerbtier.de/cgi-bin/deFSearch.c...m=Heteroceridae
5. photos from the site: http://www.colpolon.biol.uni.wroc.pl/heter...fenestratus.htm

Literature:

Determinant of freshwater invertebrates in Russia and adjacent territories. Volume 5. Higher insects (Caddis flies, lepidoptera, coleoptera, reticulatoptera, largeptera, hymenoptera). Under the general editorship of S. Ya. Tsalolikhin. Saint Petersburg: Nauka Publ., 2001, 836 p. (in Russian)

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31.05.2010 19:27, Алексей Сажнев

In the meantime, I'll go through the literature regarding this group for the Saratov region: as it turned out, only 2 heterocerid species are reliably indicated for our region (I don't give my own material yet, but there are also new finds and new species).

Heterocerus Fabricius, 1792
Type species: Apate marginatus Fabricius, 1787

Heterocerus (s. str.) fenestratus (Thunberg, 1784)

Sakharov, 1903: 33-as Heterocerus laevigatus Panz. - "years before sunset, often on the clay banks of the Idolga river and ponds; 25.IV" – the text refers to the vicinity of the village. Oktyabrsky gorodok of the Tatishchevsky district of the region (N. L. Sakharov's name is "S."). Nikolaevsky gorodok, Saratov uyezd").
F. A. Zaitsev, in his summary of the aquatic coleoptera of the Saratov and Samara provinces (1928), referring to the work of A. A. Silantiev (1894), also cites Heterocerus fenestratus from the Balashov district of the province, now it is the vicinity of the village. Pady of the Balashovsky district of the Saratov region.

Heterocerus (s. str.) marginatus (Fabricius, 1787)

The species was identified from the vicinity of the village of Pada, Balashovsky district, Saratov Region, by A. A. Silantiev (1894), which was later referred to in his work by F. A. Zaitsev (1928).

Literature:

Zaitsev F. A. Materials on the fauna of water beetles of the Saratov and Samara provinces // Volzhskaya biologicheskoi stantsii, vol. 10, No. 1, Saratov, 1928, pp. 3-27.
Sakharov N. L. Beetles of the vicinity of the Mariinsky Land School and other places of the Saratov province // Proc. of the Saratov Society of Natural Scientists and Nature Lovers, vol. 4, No. 2. Saratov, 1903 (1905). 86 p.
Silant'ev A. A. "Fauna of the Padov estate of Naryshkin, Balashovsky uyezd", St. Petersburg, 1894, pp. 20-21.

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04.06.2010 11:59, Алексей Сажнев

Heterocerus fusculus ssp. fusculus Kiesenwetter, 1843

close to Heterocerus fenestratus species, smaller, light spots on the elytra are usually larger, like "smears", the overall pattern is very similar, preshitkovye spots are sometimes not pronounced. Other differences based on the theses of A. G. Kireychuk (2001).

37(38). The body is smaller: 2.9-3.7 mm; pronotum with a broad light stripe along the anterior edge; the inner edge of the outer clarified band of the elytra near the middle almost always forms a torn strip, isolating the longitudinal dark spot; thighs are dark; epipleures are dark, with an oblique fold at the shoulder; the sides of the ventrites are red; stridulation folds on ventrite 1 are pronounced in males H. (Heterocerus) fusculus Kiesenwetter, 1843

Eastern Europe, southern Siberia (up to and including Irkutsk). Europe. Often near the sea coasts.

38(37). The body is larger: 3.1-4.4 mm (sometimes up to 4.7 mm); pronotum with a narrow light stripe along the anterior edge; the inner edge of the outer clarified band of the elytra near the middle forms a torn or closed stripe isolating the longitudinal dark spot; thighs are pale yellowish; epipleures are light, without an oblique fold at the shoulder; sides of the ventrites are pale; stridulation folds on the upper part of the Ventricle 1 is expressed in both sexes ... H. (Heterocerus) fenestratus (Thunberg, 1784)

Eastern Europe, Caucasus, Central Asia, Siberia. Europe, North Africa, Mongolia, Korea, Japan, China, Indochina. Along the banks of various reservoirs.

differences in the structure of male genitalia according to Aguilera et al, 1998 (see Figure 1):

Literature:

Opredelitel ' presnovodnykh bespozvonochnykh Rossii i sopredel'nykh territorii [Guide to freshwater invertebrates of Russia and adjacent territories], vol. 5. Vysshiye insekty (Caddis flies, lepidoptera, coleoptera, reticulata, bol'shektera, hymenoptera), under the general editorship of S. Ya.Tsalolikhin. – СПб.: Наука, 2001. – С. 341-348, 742-749.
Aguilera, P., Mascagni, A. & Ribera, I., (1998) The family Heteroceridae MacLeay, 1825 (Coleoptera, Dryopoidea) in the Iberian Peninsula and Balearic Islands. Miscellania Zoologica (Barcelona) 21: 75-100 pp.

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04.06.2010 13:53, Алексей Сажнев

On the rights of the manuscript

*1. Heterocerus parallelus Gebler, 1830
Material: Saratov region, Rovno district, Lugovskoe village, Bizyuk River bank, GPS: N 50.703980°, E 46.485330°, na svet, 4-9. V. 2010 (1♂) I. A. Zabaluev leg., material is stored in the collection of I. A. Zabaluev; ibid., (4♂ ♂ ) A. S. Sazhnev leg., the material is kept in the collection of A. S. Sazhnev.

*2. Heterocerus obsoletus Curtis, 1828
Material: Saratov region, Rovno district, Lugovskoe village, Bizyuk River bank, GPS: N 50.703980°, E 46.485330°, na svet, 4-9. V.2010 (2♂♂, 2♀♀) A. S. Sazhnev leg., the material is kept in the collection of A. S. Sazhnev.

3. Heterocerus fenestratus (Thunberg, 1784)
Material: Saratov region, Rtishchevsky district, Klyuchi village, Makarovsky zapovednik, na svet, 26-28. VI.2008 (6♂♂, 6♀♀) A. S. Sazhnev leg.; Saratov region, Rovno district, Lugovskoe village, Bizyuk River bank, GPS: N 50.703980° , E 46.485330°, na svet, 4-9. V. 2010 (2♀ ♀) A. S. Sazhnev leg., material stored in the collection of A. S. Sazhnev.

*4. Heterocerus fusculus ssp. fusculus Kiesenwetter, 1843
Material: Saratov region, Rtishchevsky district, Klyuchi village, Makarovsky zapovednik, na svet, 26-28. VI.2008 (4♂♂, 1♀) A. S. Sazhnev leg., the material is kept in the collection of A. S. Sazhnev.

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05.06.2010 14:56, Алексей Сажнев

Using the catalog of coleoptera of the Palearctic (2006) and other literature, I tried to compile a list of species of Heteroceridae in Russia. Your comments and suggestions?

Family HETEROCERIDAE MacLeay, 1825
Subfamily Heterocerinae MacLeay, 1825
Tribe Augylini Pacheco, 1964

Genus Augyles Schiödte, 1866: 141
Type species Heterocerus hispidulus Kiesenwetter, 1843
Subgenus Augyles Schiödte, 1866

flavidus P. Rossi,1794 (Scarabaeus)
hispidulus Kiesenwetter, 1843 (Heterocerus)
holdhausi Mamitza, 1907 (Heterocerus)
intermedius Kiesenwetter, 1843 (Heterocerus)
maritimus Guérin-Méneville, 1844 (Heterocerus)
obliteratus Kiesenwetter, 1843 (Heterocerus)
pruinosus Kiesenwetter, 1851 (Heterocerus)

Genus Heterocerus Fabricius, 1792
Type species: Apate marginatus Fabricius, 1787

fenestratus Thunberg, 1784 (Dermestus)
= beckeri Kuwert, 1891
flexuosus Stephens, 1828
fossor Kiesenwetter, 1843
fusculus fusculus Kiesenwetter, 1843
kamtschaticus Egorov, 1989
marginatus Fabricius, 1787 (Apate)
obsoletus Curtis, 1828
parallelus Gebler, 1830

Literature:

Egorov, L. V., Family Heteroceridae-Pilousae, in Opredelitel ' izeksekovykh Dal'nego Vostoka SSSR, vol. 3. Rigidly-krylye, ili zhuki, Part 1, Moscow: 1989, pp. 451-453.
Kireychuk, A. G. Family Heteroceridae (Pilousae) // Opredelitel ' presnovodnykh bespozvonochnykh Rossii i sopredel'nykh territorii [Guide to freshwater invertebrates of Russia and adjacent territories], vol. 5. Vysshiye insekty (Caddis flies, lepidoptera, coleoptera, reticulata, bol'shektera, hymenoptera) / under the general editorship of S. Ya.Tsalolikhin. Saint Petersburg: Nauka Publ., 2001, pp. 341-348, 742-749.
Löbl, I. & A. Smetana, 2006. Catalog of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Volume 3. Scarabaeoidea, Scirtoidea, Dascilloidea, Buprestoidea, Byrrhoidea. Apollo Books, Stenstrup. Denmark. 690 pp.
Zaitzev, Ph. Catalogue de Coleopteres agutigues des familles de Dryopidae, Georyssidae, Cyathoceridae, Heteroceridae et Hydrophilidae / Ph. Zaitzev // Trudy Russk. Entom. Companies. - 1908. - Vol. 38, No. 4. - pp. 283-420.

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22.11.2012 19:19, Алексей Сажнев

I will post a short version of my database on Heteroceridae, I hope for cooperation and additions from you. Jacobson's data is only available for three regions of the Volga region (so far).

Family Heteroceridae MacLeay, 1825

Genus Augyles Schiödte, 1866
Typical view: Heterocerus hispidulus Kiesenwetter, 1843

1. Augyles intermedius Kiesenwetter, 1843
References: Saratov and Kazan provinces. [Yakobson, 1913]. Lipetsk region [Tsurikov, 2009].
RUSSIA: Ulyanovsk region
UKRAINE: Kharkiv region

2. Augyles cf. flavidus (Rossi, 1794)
RUSSIA: Astrakhan region.

3. Augyles hispidulus (Kiesenwetter, 1843)
References: Kirov region [Dedyukhin, Kholmogorova, 2006]. Lipetsk region [Tsurikov, 2009]. The Udmurt Republic (Dedyukhin and Kholmogorova, 2006).
RUSSIA: Ivanovo region, Samara region, Saratov region, Tatarstan, Orenburg region
UKRAINE: Kharkiv region

4. Augyles cf. maritimus (Guérin-Méneville, 1844)
RUSSIA: Samara region, Ulyanovsk region.

5. Augyles sericans (Kiesenwetter, 1843)
Literature: Tatarstan: "two ... copies taken by I. Ivanov on the bank of the Morkvashi River in the Kazan province. ... "(ed. by the author) Dark-shaped specimens were given to F. A. Zaitsev by A. G. Lebedev (Zaitsev, 1916).

6. Augyles sp.
KYRGYZSTAN: Jalal-Abad region

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22.11.2012 19:31, Алексей Сажнев

Genus Heterocerus Fabricius, 1792
Type species: Apate marginatus Fabricius, 1787

1. Heterocerus parallelus Gebler, 1830
References: Saratov Province. [Yakobson, 1913]. The Udmurt Republic (Dedyukhin and Kholmogorova, 2006).
RUSSIA: Astrakhan region, Samara region, Saratov region
KAZAKHSTAN: Mangystau region, Almaty region
UKRAINE: Odessa region, Crimea, Nikolayev reg.

2. Heterocerus flexuosus Stephens, 1828
References: Saratov Province. [Yakobson, 1913].
RUSSIA: Astrakhan region, Samara region, Ulyanovsk region
KAZAKHSTAN: Zhambyl region, Mangystau region
UKRAINE: Odessa region

3. Heterocerus fossor Kiesenwetter, 1843
References: Saratov and Kazan provinces. [Yakobson, 1913]. The Republic of Mari-El (Lebedev, 1906). The Chuvash Republic [Yegorov and Yegorova, 2009].
RUSSIA: Ivanovo region, Saratov region, Ulyanovsk region, Chuvashia (Egorov L. V., Egorova M. A., 2009).
Ukraine: Kherson region.

4. Heterocerus obsoletus Curtis, 1828
RUSSIA: Samara region, Saratov region, Ulyanovsk region
KAZAKHSTAN: Almaty region
UKRAINE: Odessa region

5. Heterocerus fenestratus (Thunberg, 1784)
References: Lipetsk region [Tsurikov, 2009]. The Republic of Mari-El (Lebedev, 1906). Samara region. [Novoderezhkin, 1940 on Cadastre..., 2007; Litovkin et al., 2011]. Saratov region. [Silantyev, 1894; Zaitsev, 1928; Sakharov, 1905]. Saratov province. [Yakobson, 1913]. Tatarstan (Lebedev, 1906). The Udmurt Republic (Dedyukhin and Kholmogorova, 2006). Chuvash Republic: [Yegorov, 1997, 2002, 2004, 2009; Yegorov and Vasilyeva, 2009].
RUSSIA: Astrakhan region, Ivanovo region, Moscow region, Samara region, Saratov region, Tatarstan, Ulyanovsk region
KAZAKHSTAN: Almaty region
MOLDOVA: Orhei district
, UKRAINE: Kharkiv Reg. Crimea.

6. Heterocerus fusculus ssp. fusculus Kiesenwetter, 1843
References: Lipetsk region [Tsurikov, 2009]. Samara region. [Litovkin et al., 2011]. The Udmurt Republic (Dedyukhin and Kholmogorova, 2006).
RUSSIA: Astrakhan region, Moscow region, Samara region, Saratov region, Tatarstan, Ulyanovsk region

7. Heterocerus marginatus (Fabricius, 1787)
References: Kirov region [Dedyukhin, Kholmogorova, 2006]. Lipetsk region [Tsurikov, 2009]. Saratov region. [Silantyev, 1894; Zaitsev, 1928]; Saratov Province. [Yakobson, 1913]. Tatarstan (Lebedev, 1906). The Udmurt Republic (Dedyukhin and Kholmogorova, 2006).
RUSSIA: Astrakhan region, Ivanovo region, Nizhny Novgorod region, Samara region, Saratov region, Tatarstan, Ulyanovsk region
UKRAINE: Kherson region. [Mikhailov, 2012], Kharkiv Reg.

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