Stagetus

Stagetus is a genus of death-watch and spider beetles in the family Ptinidae. There are at least 20 described species in Stagetus.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7] They eat fungi.[8]

Stagetus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Family:	Ptinidae
Tribe:	Prothecini
Genus:	Stagetus Wollaston, 1861
Synonyms[1]
Anomotheca Schilsky, 1899

Species

These species belong to the genus Stagetus:

• Stagetus andalusiacus (Aubé, 1861) ^g
• Stagetus borealis Israelsson, 1971 ^g
• Stagetus byrrhoides (Mulsant & Rey, 1861) ^g
• Stagetus championi (Schilsky, 1899) ^g
• Stagetus cobosi Viñolas, 2012 [9]
• Stagetus conicicollis (Schilsky, 1899) ^g
• Stagetus curimoides (Reitter, 1884) ^g
• Stagetus dorcatomoides (Brenske & Reitter, 1884) ^g
• Stagetus elongatus (Mulsant & Rey, 1861) ^g
• Stagetus euphorbiae Israelson, 1971 ^g
• Stagetus ferreri Espaol, 1994 ^g
• Stagetus franzi Español, 1969 ^g
• Stagetus grossus White, 1976 ^{i c g}
• Stagetus hirtulus Wollaston, 1861 ^g
• Stagetus italicus (Reitter, 1885) ^g
• Stagetus micoae Viñolas, 2011 [10]
• Stagetus montanus Toskina, 1998 ^g
• Stagetus pellitus (Chevrolat, 1859) ^g
• Stagetus pilula (Aubé, 1861) ^g
• Stagetus profundus (LeConte, 1865) ^{i c g b}
• Stagetus propinquus (Obenberger, 1917) ^g
• Stagetus puncticollis (Brenske & Reitter, 1884) ^g
• Stagetus sardous (Reitter, 1915) ^g
• Stagetus thurepalmi Israelson, 1971 ^g

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

References

1. "Stagetus Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-09-01.
2. "Browse Stagetus". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2018-09-01.
3. "Stagetus". GBIF. Retrieved 2018-09-01.
4. "Stagetus Genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-09-01.
5. Löbl, Ivan; Smetana, Aleš (2007). Lobl, I.; Smetana, A. (eds.). Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera. Volume 4: Elateroidea - Derodontoidea - Bostrichoidea - Lymexyloidea - Cleroidea - Cucujoidea. ISBN 978-87-88757-67-5.
6. Zahradník, Petr; Háva, Jiří (2014). "Catalogue of the world genera and subgenera of the superfamilies Derodontoidea and Bostrichoidea (Coleoptera: Derodontiformia, Bostrichiformia)". Zootaxa. 3754 (4): 301–52. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3754.4.1. PMID 24869695.
7. Bouchard, Patrice; Bousquet, Yves; Davies, Anthony E.; Alonso-Zarazaga, Miguel A.; et al. (2011). "Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta)". ZooKeys. 88 (88): 1–972. doi:10.3897/zookeys.88.807. ISSN 1313-2989. PMC 3088472. PMID 21594053.
8. de F. e Silva, I., et al. (2008). Additions to the knowledge of genus Stagetus Wollaston, 1861 (Coleoptera, Ptinidae) in the Iberian Peninsula. Graellsia 64(2) 335-38.
9. (in Catalan) Viñolas, A. (2012). Stagetus cobosi n. sp. de Dorcatominae d’Almeria, península Ibèrica (Coleoptera: Ptinidae). Orsis 26 187-92.
10. (in Spanish) Viñolas, A. (2011). Stagetus micoae n. sp. del Parque Nacional de Cabañeros, Ciudad Real, España (Coleoptera: Anobiidae: Dorcatominae). Heteropterus Revista de Entomología 11(1) 13-19.

Further reading

• Arango, Rachel A.; Young, Daniel K. (2012). "Death-watch and spider beetles of Wisconsin (Coleoptera: Ptinidae)" (PDF). General Technical Report FPL-GTR-209.
• Arnett, R.H. Jr.; Thomas, M. C.; Skelley, P. E.; Frank, J. H., eds. (2002). American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press. ISBN 978-0849309540.
• Borowski, Jerzy; Wegrzynowicz, Piotr (2007). World Catalogue of Bostrichidae (Coleoptera). Wydawnictwo Mantis. ISBN 9788392618218.
• LeConte, J.L. (1861). Classification of the Coleoptera of North America. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. 3. Smithsonian Institution. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.38459. ISBN 978-0665100550.
• White, Richard E. (1998) [1983]. A Field Guide to the Beetles of North America (Peterson Field Guides). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN 978-0395910894.
• Wollaston, T.V. (1861). "On the Anobiidae of the Canary Islands". The Annals and Magazine of Natural History: Including Zoology, Botany, and Geology. 7: 11–19.