Sphaerius
Taxonavigation
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Superregnum: Eukaryota |
Familia: Sphaeriusidae
Genus: Sphaerius
Species:
S. acaroides –
S. africanus –
S. alticola –
S. coomani –
S. gustavlohsei –
S. hispanicus –
S. humicola –
S. laeviventris –
S. madecassus –
S. politus –
S. obsoletus –
S. ovensensis –
S. perlaevis –
S. silvicola –
S. spississimus –
S. tesselatus –
S. texanus –
S. tropicus
Species of unclear assignment:
S. cribratus –
S. favosus
Excluded from Sphaeriusidae:
S. coenensis –
S. scutellaris
Name
Sphaerius Waltl, 1838 [placed on the Official Index of Rejected and Invalid Generic Names in Zoology by Melville (1985), with the Name Number 2164; deleted and placed instead on the Official List of Generic Names in Zoology by ICZN (2000)]
Gender: masculine (ICZN, 2000)
Synonyms
Type species
- Microsporus Kolenati: Microsporus obsidianus Kolenati, 1846 [=Sphaerius acaroides Waltl, 1838], by monotypy (Melville, 1985)
- Neosphaerius Oke: Neosphaerius ovensiensis Oke, 1954
- Sphaerius Waltl: Sphaerius acaroides Waltl, 1838, by monotypy (ICZN, 2000)
References
Primary references
- ICZN 2000. Opinion 1957. Sphaerius Waltl, 1838 (Insecta, Coleoptera): conserved; and Sphaeriidae Erichson, 1845 (Coleoptera): spelling emended to Sphaeriusidae, so removing the homonymy with Sphaeriidae Deshayes, 1854 (1820) (Mollusca, Bivalvia). Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 57(3): 182–184. BHL. Reference page.
- Kolenati, F.A. 1846. Meletemata Entomologica. Fasc. V. Insecta Caucasi. Coleoptera, Dermaptera, Lepidoptera, Neuroptera, Mutillidae, Aphaniptera, Anopleura. Academia Imperialis Scientiarum, Petropoli. 169 + [Corrigenda] pp. BHL.
- Melville, R.V. 1985. Opinion 1331. Sphaeriidae Jeffreys, 1862 (1820) (Mollusca, Bivalvia) and Microsporidae Reichardt, 1976 (Insecta, Coleoptera): placed on the official list. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 42: 230–232. BHL. Reference page.
- Oke, C.G. 1954. Australian species of Sphaeriidae. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 65: 57–59.
- Waltl, J. 1838. Beiträge zur nähem naturhistorischen Kenntniß des Unterdonaukreises in Bayern. Isis von Oken 1838: 250–273. BHL.
Additional references
- Britton, E.B. 1966. On the larva of Sphaerius and the systematic position of the Sphaeriidae (Coleoptera). Australian journal of zoology 14: 1193–1198. DOI: 10.1071/ZO9661193
- Endrödy-Younga, S. 1997. Microsporidae (Coleoptera: Myxophaga), a new family for the African continent. Annals of the Transvaal Museum 36: 309–311. hdl: 10520/AJA00411752_77
. - Fikáček, M., Yamamoto, S., Matsumoto, K., Beutel, R.G. & Maddison, D.R. 2022. Phylogeny and systematics of Sphaeriusidae (Coleoptera: Myxophaga): minute living fossils with underestimated past and present-day diversity. Systematic Entomology 48(2): 233–249. DOI: 10.1111/syen.12571
. Reference page. - Jäch, M.A. 1999. Case 3052. Sphaerius Waltl, 1838 and Sphaeriusidae Erichson, 1845 (Insecta, Coleoptera): proposed conservation by the partial revocation of Opinion 1331. Bulletin of zoological nomenclature 56: 117–120. Biostor
- Liang, Z-L. & Jia, F-L. 2018. A new species of Sphaerius Waltl from China (Coleoptera, Myxophaga, Sphaeriusidae). Zookeys, 808: 115–121. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.808.30600 Reference page.
- Löbl, I. 1995. New species of terrestrial Microsporus from the Himalaya (Coleoptera: Microsporidae). Entomologische Blätter für Biologie und Systematik der Käfer 91: 129–138.
Links
- Microsporus Kolenati, 1846 – Taxon details on Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
- ION search for Sphaerius
- ION search for Microsporus