Catalogue of Tenebrionidae (Coleoptera) of North America.

This catalogue includes all valid family-group (8 subfamilies, 52 tribes, 14 subtribes), genus-group (349 genera, 86 subgenera), and species-group names (2825 species, 215 subspecies) of darkling beetles (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) known to occur in North America and their available synonyms. Data on extant, subfossil and fossil taxa are given. For each name the author and year and page number of the description are provided, with additional information (e.g., type species for genus-group names, author of synonymies for invalid taxa) depending on the taxon rank. Several new nomenclatural acts are included. One new genus, Bousquet and Bouchard, is described. Bousquet and Bouchard [for Özdikmen, 2004], Aalbu [for Marcuzzi, 1977], and Bouchard [for Doyen and Poinar, 1994] are proposed as new replacement names. Supporting evidence is provided for the conservation of usage of (Fabricius, 1798) over (Olivier, 1793) . The generic names Motschulsky, 1870 [= Solier, 1836], Blaisdell, 1909 [= Eschscholtz, 1829], Casey, 1895 and Casey, 1895 [= LeConte, 1851] are new synonyms (valid names in square brackets). The following 127 new synonymies of species-group names, listed in their original combination, are proposed (valid names, in their current combination, placed in square brackets): Wilke, 1922 [= (Champion, 1884)]; Wilke, 1922 [= Solier, 1836]; Pallister, 1954, Pallister, 1954, and Pallister, 1954 [= (Champion, 1892)]; Champion, 1884 and Champion, 1884 [= (Champion, 1884)]; Champion, 1884 [= (Champion, 1884)]; Casey, 1912 and Pallister, 1954 [= (LeConte, 1854)]; Wilke, 1922 and Wilke, 1922 [= (Champion, 1884)]; Casey, 1912 [= (Champion, 1884)]; Wilke, 1922 [= (Champion, 1884)]; Champion, 1892 [= (Champion, 1892)]; Astrotus seticornis var. humeralis Champion, 1884 [= (Champion, 1884)]; Casey, 1912, Casey, 1912, Casey, 1912, Casey, 1912, Casey, 1912, and Casey, 1912 [= (Say, 1824)]; Champion, 1884 and Champion, 1884 [= (Solier, 1836)]; Casey, 1912, Casey, 1912, and Casey, 1912 [= (Casey, 1912)]; Casey, 1912 [= (LeConte, 1854)]; Casey, 1912 [= (LeConte, 1853)]; Casey, 1912 [= (LeConte, 1861)]; Casey, 1912, Casey, 1912, Casey, 1912, Casey, 1912, Casey, 1912, Casey, 1912, Casey, 1912, Casey, 1912, Casey, 1912, Casey, 1912, Casey, 1912, and Casey, 1912 [= (LeConte, 1858)]; Wilke, 1922 [= (Champion, 1884)]; Horn, 1896 [= (Horn, 1894)]; Casey, 1890, Casey, 1912, Casey, 1912, Casey, 1912, Casey, 1912, Casey, 1912, Casey, 1912, and Casey, 1912 [= (LeConte, 1851)]; Casey, 1912, Casey, 1912, Casey, 1912, Casey, 1912, Casey, 1912, Casey, 1912, Casey, 1912, Casey, 1912, Casey, 1912, Casey, 1912, Casey, 1912, and Papp, 1961 [= (LeConte, 1851)]; Wilke, 1922 [= (Champion, 1884)]; Casey, 1912 [= (LeConte, 1851)]; Casey, 1912 [= (LeConte, 1851)]; Casey, 1912 [= (Champion, 1884)]; Blaisdell, 1919, Blaisdell, 1919, and Fall, 1928 [= Horn, 1870]; Dajoz, 1999 [= LeConte, 1851]; Casey, 1907 and Casey, 1907 [= Eschscholtz, 1831]; Casey, 1907 [= Casey, 1907]; Eleodes tibialis forma oblonga Blaisdell, 1909 [= Blaisdell, 1909]; ( var.) Blaisdell, 1917 [= LeConte, 1858]; Eleodes cordata forma sublaevis Blaisdell, 1909, Eleodes cordata forma intermedia Blaisdell, 1909, Eleodes cordata forma oblonga Blaisdell, 1909, Eleodes cordata forma elongata Blaisdell, 1909, and ( var.) Blaisdell, 1917 [= Eschscholtz, 1829]; Eleodes hornii var. monticula Blaisdell, 1918 and Blaisdell, 1925 [= Blaisdell, 1909]; Eleodes parvicollis var. squalida Blaisdell, 1918 [= Eschscholtz, 1829]; Mannerheim, 1843 and Eleodes parvicollis forma farallonica Blaisdell, 1909 [= Eschscholtz, 1829]; Blaisdell, 1935 [= LeConte, 1857]; Mannerheim, 1843 [= Eschscholtz, 1829]; Blaisdell, 1925 [= Horn, 1870]; Eleodes cordata var. horrida Blaisdell, 1918 [= Eschscholtz, 1829]; Blaisdell, 1933 [= Blaisdell, 1921]; Blaisdell, 1921 [= Eschscholtz, 1829]; Eleodes carbonaria forma glabra Blaisdell, 1909 [= (Say, 1824)]; Eleodes granosa forma fortis Blaisdell, 1909 [= LeConte, 1866]; Eleodes pilosa forma ordinata Blaisdell, 1909 [= Horn, 1870]; Kulzer, 1960 [= Blaisdell, 1909]; Papp, 1961 [= La Rivers, 1946]; Gosse, 1840 [= (Fabricius, 1801)]; Casey, 1890 [= (Randall, 1838)]; Casey, 1890 [= LeConte, 1851]; Blaisdell, 1929 [= Casey, 1890]; Casey, 1890 and Blaisdell, 1892 [= Casey, 1890]; Casey, 1890 [= Casey, 1890]; Fall, 1929 [= Mulsant and Rey, 1859]; Casey, 1890 and Casey, 1890 [= Casey, 1885]; Casey, 1890 [= LeConte, 1859]; Casey, 1890 [= Champion, 1885]; Casey, 1890 [= LeConte, 1851]; Casey, 1890 [= LeConte, 1859]; Horn, 1894 [= (LeConte, 1866)]; Champion, 1885 [= (Champion, 1885)]; LeConte, 1851 [= LeConte, 1851]; Casey, 1895 [= Casey, 1895]; Casey, 1895 and Casey, 1895 [= (LeConte, 1851)]; Casey, 1890 [= (LeConte, 1851)]; Say, 1824 [= (Palisot de Beauvois, 1817)]; Motschulsky, 1872 [= Fabricius, 1792]; Hatch, 1965 and Hatch, 1965 [= Fall, 1931]; Casey, 1891 and Casey, 1891 [= (LeConte, 1866)]; Campbell, 1978 [= Marshall, 1970]; LeConte, 1857 [= Mannerheim, 1843]. The following subspecies of LeConte, 1879 are given species rank: La Rivers, 1943, Blaisdell, 1909, and La Rivers, 1946. The following taxa, previously thought to be junior synonyms, are considered valid: Eschscholtz, 1829; Eschscholtz, 1829; (Casey, 1924). Two new combinations are proposed: (Champion, 1892) and (Champion, 1892) [from the genus Casey, 1912]. The type species [placed in square brackets] of the following 12 genus-group taxa are designated for the first time: Kirsch, 1874 [ Kirsch, 1874]; Casey, 1907 [ Casey, 1890]; Laporte, 1840 [ Laporte, 1840 (= Palisot de Beauvois, 1812)]; Horn, 1870 [ Eschscholtz, 1829]; LeConte, 1866 [ LeConte, 1858]; Blaisdell, 1909 [ LeConte, 1858]; Blaisdell, 1909 [ LeConte, 1851]; Champion, 1886 [ Champion, 1886 (= Kirsch, 1866)]; Mulsant and Rey, 1859 [ Fabricius, 1792]; Schaufuss, 1882 [ Schaufuss, 1882]; Crotch, 1874 [ LeConte, 1851]; LeConte, 1878 [ LeConte, 1878]. Two species previously known from South America [ J. Thomson and Chevrolat] are reported for the first time from North America.