Anisotoma (beetle)

Anisotoma is a genus of round fungus beetles in the family Leiodidae. There are at least 20 described species in Anisotoma.^[1][2][3]

Anisotoma orbicularis

Anisotoma
Anisotoma humeralis
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Family:	Leiodidae
Tribe:	Agathidiini
Genus:	Anisotoma Panzer, 1797

Species

These 22 species belong to the genus Anisotoma:

• Anisotoma amica Brown, 1937 ^{i g b}
• Anisotoma axillaris Gyllenhal, 1810 ^g
• Anisotoma basalis (LeConte, 1853) ^{i g}
• Anisotoma bifoveata Wheeler, 1979 ^{i g}
• Anisotoma blanchardi (Horn, 1880) ^{i g b}
• Anisotoma castanea (Herbst, 1792) ^g
• Anisotoma confusa (Horn, 1880) ^{i g}
• Anisotoma discolor (Melsheimer, 1844) ^{i g b}
• Anisotoma errans Brown, 1937 ^{i g b}
• Anisotoma expolita Brown, 1937 ^{i g}
• Anisotoma geminata (Horn, 1880) ^{i g b}
• Anisotoma glabra (Kugelann, 1794) ^g
• Anisotoma globososa Hatch, 1929 ^{i g b}
• Anisotoma horni (Horn, 1880) ^b
• Anisotoma humeralis (Fabricius, 1792) ^{i g b}
• Anisotoma inops Brown, 1937 ^{i g b}
• Anisotoma nevadensis Brown, 1937 ^{i g}
• Anisotoma obsoleta (Horn, 1880) ^{i g}
• Anisotoma orbicularis (Herbst, 1792) ^{i g}
• Anisotoma reticulonota Wheeler, 1979 ^{i g}
• Anisotoma smetanai Angelini & Marzo, 1995 ^g
• Anisotoma tenulucida Wheeler, 1979 ^{i g}

Data sources: i = ITIS,^[1] c = Catalogue of Life,^[4] g = GBIF,^[2] b = Bugguide.net^[3]

References

1. "Anisotoma Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-04-29.
2. "Anisotoma". GBIF. Retrieved 2018-04-29.
3. "Anisotoma Genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-04-29.
4. "Catalogue of Life". Retrieved 2018-04-29.

Further reading

• Blatchley, W.S. (1910). An illustrated descriptive catalogue of the Coleoptera, beetles (exclusive of the Rhynchophora) known to occur in Indiana. Nature Pub.
• Bouchard, Patrice; Bousquet, Yves; Davies, Anthony E.; Alonso-Zarazaga, Miguel A.; et al. (2011). "Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta)". ZooKeys (88). Pensoft Publishers: 1–972. doi:10.3897/zookeys.88.807. ISSN 1313-2989. PMC 3088472. PMID 21594053.
• LeConte, J.L. (1861). Classification of the Coleoptera of North America. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. Vol. 3. Smithsonian Institution. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.38459. ISBN 0665100558.
• Majka, C.; Langor, D. (2008). "The Leiodidae (Coleoptera) of Atlantic Canada: new records, faunal composition, and zoogeography". ZooKeys (2): 357–402. doi:10.3897/zookeys.2.56.
• Mazur, Slawomir (2004). Lobl, I.; Smetana, A. (eds.). Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera. Volume 2: Hydrophiloidea - Histeroidea - Staphylinoidea. Apollo Books. pp. 68–102. ISBN 87-88757-74-9.
• Miller, Kelly B.; Wheeler, Quentin D. (2005). "Two New Genera of Agathidiini from the Nearctic and Neotropical Regions (Coleoptera: Leiodidae)". The Coleopterists Bulletin. 58 (4): 466–487. doi:10.1649/633. ISSN 0010-065X. S2CID 85779928.
• White, Richard E. (1998) [1983]. A Field Guide to the Beetles of North America (Peterson Field Guides). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN 0395910897.

External links

• Media related to Anisotoma (Leiodidae) at Wikimedia Commons