Checklist of the Attelabidae (Coleoptera) of Louisiana
Matthew
L. Gimmel
Louisiana
State Arthropod Museum
Louisiana
State University
Baton
Rouge, Louisiana, USA 70803
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Last updated: 08 September 2009
5 genera, 7 species (+ 2 species of probable occurrence)
Subfamily ATTELABINAE
Attelabus bipustulatus Fabricius, 1776
Distribution: East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, Saint Tammany, West Feliciana
Source: LSAM (det. J.B. Chapin)
[Himatolabus pubescens (Say, 1826)]
Distribution: probably occurs in Louisiana
Source: Hamilton (1992: 221) (records from Alabama, Florida, and Texas)
Homoeolabus analis (Illiger, 1794)
Distribution: Calcasieu, East Baton Rouge, Morehouse, Natchitoches, Saint Tammany, Vernon, Washington
Source: LSAM (det. J.B. Chapin; C.W. O'Brien; M. Gimmel)
Subfamily RHYNCHITINAE
Eugnamptus angustatus (Herbst, 1797)
Distribution: Avoyelles, East Baton Rouge, La Salle, Madison, Natchitoches, Orleans, Pointe Coupee, Saint Landry, Saint Tammany, Washington, West Feliciana
Source: LSAM (det. M. Gimmel); Hamilton (1990: 488)
Eugnamptus puncticeps LeConte, 1876
Distribution: Natchitoches, Rapides, Saint Tammany, Vernon
Source: LSAM (det. M. Gimmel); Hamilton (1990: 494)
[Haplorhynchites aeneus (Boheman, 1829)]
Distribution: probably occurs in Louisiana
Source: Hamilton (1974: 792) (records from Arkansas, Texas, and Mississippi)
Temnocerus aeratus (Say, 1831)
Distribution: probably occurs in Louisiana
Source: Hamilton (1971: 995) (as Pselaphorhynchites aeratus) (records from Arkansas, Florida, and Texas)
Temnocerus elusus (Blatchley, 1916)
Distribution: probably occurs in Louisiana
Source: Hamilton (1971: 990) (as Pselaphorhynchites elusus) (records from Mississippi and Texas)
Subfamily PTEROCOLINAE
Pterocolus ovatus (Fabricius, 1801)
Distribution: East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, Natchitoches, West Feliciana
Source: LSAM (det. C.W. O'Brien; M. Gimmel); Hamilton (1998: 244)
Hamilton, R.W. 1971. The genus Pselaphorhynchites (Coleoptera: Rhynchitidae) in America north of Mexico. Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 64: 982–996.
Hamilton, R.W. 1974. The genus Haplorhynchites in America north of Mexico (Coleoptera: Rhynchitidae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 67: 787–794.
Hamilton, R.W. 1990. A revision of the weevil genus Eugnamptus Schoenherr (Coleoptera: Rhynchitidae) in America north of Mexico. Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 115[1989]: 475–502.
Hamilton, R.W. 1992. Revision of the New World genus Himatolabus Jekel (Coleoptera: Attelabidae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 118: 197–226.
Hamilton, R.W. 1998. Taxonomic revision of the New World Pterocolinae (Coleoptera: Rhynchitidae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 124: 203–269.