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Bibliography and Species Data Sources of Coleoptera of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park

Most of the references cited below contain original descriptions of species having type localities within GSMNP or references to species occurring in the park that are rare or otherwise unusual. References to source data used in creating the GSMNP beetle checklist are also included. The list is far from exhaustive and suggestions for additional citations are welcome. 

Al Dhafer, H. M. 2009. Revision of the North American species of Limonius (Coleoptera: Elateridae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society 135: 209-352.

Allen, R. T. 1980. A review of the subtribe Myadi: description of a new genus and species, phylogenetic relationships, and biogeography (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Pterostichini). Coleopterists Bulletin 34: 1-29.

Barr, T. C., Jr. 1962. The genus Trechus (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Trechini) in the southern Appalachians. Coleopterists Bulletin 19: 65-92.

Barr, T. C., Jr. 1969. Evolution of the Coleoptera (Carabidae) in the Southern Appalachians, pp. 67-92 in The Distributional History of the Biota of the Southern Appalachians Part I: Invertebrates (P. C. Holt, ed.). Research Division Monograph 1 Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg, VA.

Barr, T. C., Jr. 1974. The eyeless beetles of the genus Arianops Brendel (Coleoptera, Pselaphidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 154, 52 pp.

Barr, T. C., Jr. 1979. Revision of the Appalachian Trechus (Coleoptera: Carabidae). Brimleyana 2: 29-75.

Barr, T. C., Jr. 1995. Notes on some anillines (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Bembidiinae) from southeastern United States, with descriptions of a new genus and two new species. Special Bulletin of the Japanese Society of Coleopterology 4: 239-248.

Beal, R. S., Jr. 1985. A taxonomic revision of the Nearctic species of Cryptorhopalum (Dermestidae: Coleoptera). Transaction of the American Entomological Society 111: 171-221.

Campbell, J. M. 1969. A revision of the New World Oxyporinae (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae). Canadian Entomologist 101: 225-268.

Campbell, J. M. 1976. A revision of the genus Sepidophilus Gistel (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) of America north of Mexico. Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada 99: 1-89.

Campbell, J. M. 1982. A revision of the genus Lordithon Thomson (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) of North and Central America. Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada 119: 1-116.

CMN, H. and A. Howden 2002. Records collected from the Howdens during a visit to the Canadian Museum of Nature by A. R. Cline, March 2002.

Carlton, C. E. 2010. A new species of Reichenbachia from Great Smoky Mountains National Park, U.S.A. Coleopterists Bulletin: in press.

Carlton, C. E. 2008. Eight new species of Arianops Brendel from southeastern United States with an updated key and notes on additional species (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae). Coleopterists Bulletin 62: 297-323.

Carlton, C. E., and R. S. Anderson 2004. Occurrence of the Introduced Weevil Myosides seriehispidus Roelofs in Great Smoky Mountains National Park (Coleoptera: Curculionidae. Coleopterists Bulletin 58: 343

Carlton, C. E., and V. M. Bayless. 2007. Documenting beetle diversity in Great Smoky Mountains National Park; beyond the halfway point! (Arthropoda: Insecta: Coleoptera). Southeastern Naturalist Special Issue 1: 183-192.

Carlton, C. E., and D. S. Chandler. Revision of the Nearctic genus Pseudactium (Coleoptera: Pselaphidae: Euplectinae). Coleopterists Bulletin 48: 171-190.

Carlton, C. E., and R. A. B. Leschen. 2008. A new species and new North American record of Pseudotriphyllus (Coleoptera: Mycetophagidae). Coleopterists Bulletin 63: 24-30.

Ciegler, J. C. 2000. Ground Beetles and Wrinkled Bark Beetles of South Carolina (Coleoptera: Geadephaga: Carabidae and Rhysodidae ). Biota of South Carolina, Volume 1. Clemson University. 149 pp.

Ciegler, J., and W. Merritt 2001. (Unpublished checklist provided to park by authors.)

Cornell, J. F., and Puthz, V.  1997. Two new North American Stenus (Parastenus) species from the Appalachians (Insecta: Coleoptera, Staphylinidae: Steninae). Philippia 8: 131-136.

Dajoz, R. and A. 2002. (Unpublished checklist provided to park by authors.)

Donabauer, M. 2005a. New species of the Trechus (Microtrechus) uncifer-group from the southern Appalachians (Coleoptera: Carabidae). Z. Arb. Gem. Öst. Ent. 57: 51-62.

Donabauer, M. 2005b. New species and subspecies of the Trechus (Microtrechus) nebulosus-group from the southern Appalachians (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Trechinae). Z. Arb. Gem. Öst. Ent. 57: 65-92.

Ford, E. J. 1973.  A revision of the genus Petalium LeConte in the United States, Greater Antilles, and the Bahamas (Coleoptera: Anobiidae). USDA Technical Bulletin No. 1467, 40 pp.

Gimmel, M. L., and S. A. Slipinski. 2007. A new species of the genus Philothermus Aubé from Great Smoky Mountains National Park, U.S.A. Zootaxa 1390: 17-20.

Green, J. W.  1956. Revision of the Nearctic species of Photinus (Lampyridae: Coleoptera).  Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 28: 561-613.

Grigarick, A. A., and R. O. Schuster. 1971. A revision of Actium Casey and Actiastes Casey (Coleoptera: Pselaphidae).  University of California Publications in Entomology Vol. 67. 56 pp.

Gusarov, V. 2002. A revision of Nearctic species of the genus Geostiba Thomson, 1858 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae). Zootaxa 81, 88 pp.

Gusarov, V. 2002. A revision of Nearctic species of the genus Earota Mulsant and Rey, 1874 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae). Zootaxa 92, 16 pp.

Gusarov, V. 2003. A revision of some types of North American aleocharines (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae), with synomic notes. Zootaxa 353, 134 pp.

Harpootlian, P. J. 2001. Scarab Beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) of South Carolina. Biota of South Carolina, Volume 2. Clemson University. 157 pp.

Herman, L. H., Jr. 1975. Revision and phylogeny of the monogeneric subfamily Pseudopsinae for the World (Staphylinidae, Coleoptera). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 155: 243-317.

Kavanaugh, D. H. 1979. Studies on the Nebriini (Coleoptera: Carabidae), III. New nearctic Nebria species and subspecies, nomenclatural notes, and lectotype designations. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 42: 87-133.

Knull, J. N. 1949. Three new species of Cleridae (Coleoptera). Ohio Journal of Science 49: 199-200.

Konstantinov, A., and A. Tishechkin. 2004. The First Nearctic Leaf Litter Flea Beetle (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) from the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Coleopterists Bulletin 58: 71-76

Larson, D. J., Y. Alarie, and R. E. Roughley. 2000. Predaceous diving beetles (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae) of the Nearctic region, with emphasis on the fauna of Canada and Alaska. NRC Research Press, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada xiv + 982 pp.

Larson, D. J. and R. W. Wolfe. 1998. Revision of North American Agabus Leach (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae): the semivittatus-group. The Canadian Entomologist 130:27-54.

Lawrence, J. F., and A. F. Newton, Jr. 1975. Families and subfamilies of Coleoptera (with selected genera, notes, references and data on family-group names), pp. 779-1006 in Biology, Phylogeny, and Classification of Coleoptera: Papers Celebrating the 80^th Birthday of Roy A. Crowson (J. Pakaluk and S. A. Slipinski (eds.), Muzeum I Instytut Zoologii, Warsaw.

Lawrence, J. F., and K. Stephan. 1975. The North American Cerylonidae (Coleoptera: Clavicornia). Psyche 82: 131-166.

Loebl, I., and F. G. Calame. 1996. Taxonomy and Phylogeny of the Dasycerinae (Coleoptera: staphylinidae). Journal of Natural  History 30: 247-291.

Mayor, A. J. 2004. Range Extension for Enoclerus muttkowskii (Wolcott) (Coleoptera: Cleridae) from Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Coleopterists Bulletin 58: 344.

Smetana, A. 1995. Rove beetles of the subtribe Philonthina of America north of Mexico (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae). Classification, phylogeny and taxonomic revision. Memoirs on Entomology International 3, x+946 pp.

Park List 2001.  (Unpublished checklist derived from identified material in park collection.)

Park, O. 1953. New or little known species of pselaphid beetles of the United States, with observations on taxonomy and evolution of the family Pselaphidae. Bulletin of the Chicago Academy of Sciences 9: 249-283.

Park, O. 1956. New or little known species of pselaphid beetles from southeastern United States. Journal of the Tennessee Academy of Science 31: 55-100.

Park, O. 1965. Revision of the genus Batriasymmodes (Coleoptera: Pselaphidae). Transactions of the American Microscopical Society 84: 184-201.

Peck, S. B. 1973. A systematic revision and the evolutionary biology of the Ptomophagus (Adelops) beetles of North America (Coleoptera; Leiodidae; Catopinae), with emphsis on cave-inhabiting species. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 145, no. 2: 29-162..

Ravensford Project. 2002 checklist. Coleoptera collected from litter and soil samples. Identifications by Adreian Mayor. Specimens deposited in the University of Tennessee Museum. List provided by Dr. Ernie Bernard. 

Riley, E. G. 2005.  Checklist of chrysomelid beetles recorded on DLIA report. Vouchers deposited in Texas A&M University Insect Collection. 

Riley, E. G., and S. Clark 2002. Checklist of chrysomelid beetles recorded on DLIA report. Vouchers deposited in Texas A&M University Insect Collection. 

Sanders, N. J.,, R. R. Dunn, M. C. Fitzpatrick, C. E. Carlton,  M. R. Pogue, C. R. Parker, and T. R. Simons. 2009. Diverse elevational diversity gradients in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, USA. Pp. 75-88 in: Data Mining for Global Trends in Mountain Biodiversity (E. M Spehn and C. Kӧrner ,eds). CRC Press/Taylor and Francis, Boca Raton.

Selander, R. B. 1960. Bionomics, Systematics, and Phylogeny of Lytta, a Genus of Blister Beetles (Coleoptera: Meloidae). Illinois Biological Monographs: Number 28. 295 pp.

Sokolov, I. M., and C. E. Carlton. 2008. Two new species of blind, forest litter-inhabitiing ground beetles from the subtribe Anillina (Carabidae: Trechinae: Bembidiini) from eastern U.S.A. Zootaxa 1740: 37-44.

Sokolov, M., C. E. Carlton and J. F. Cornell. 2004. Review of Anillinus, with Descriptions of 17 New Species and a Key to Soil and Litter Species (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Trechinae: Bembidiinae). Coleopterists Bulletin 58: 185-233.

Sokolov, I. M., Y. Y. Sokolova, and C. E. Carlton.  2007. New species of Anillinus casey (Carabidae: Trechinae: Bembidiini) from Great Smoky Mountains National Park, U.S.A. and phylogeography of the A. langdoni species group. Zootaxa 1542: 1-20.

Staines, C. L., and A. J. Mayor. 2008. Aquatic and semiaquatic beetles of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae, Gyrinidae, Haliplidae, Helophoridae, Hydraenidae, Hydrochidae, Hydrophilidae, and Noteridae). Southeastern Naturalist 7: 505-514.

Steiner, W.E., Jr. 2004. New distribution records for Eleates depressus (Randall) in the southeastern United States (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae; Bolitophaginae) and notes on these occurrences. Banisteria 24: 52-53.

Tishechkin, A.K. 2007.  A new species of Ptomaphagus (Appadelopsis) (Coleoptera: Leiodidae) from Great Smoky Mountains National Park, U.S.A. Zootaxa 1478: 61-64.

Tremont. 2001. Tremont Institute, identifications sent by Paul Super.

Trieff, D. D. 2002. Composition of the Coleoptera and associated insects collected by canopy fogging of Northern Red Oak (Quercus rubra L.) trees in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and the University of Tennessee Arboretum. Unpublished master's thesis, University of Tennessee. 86 pp.

Vit, S. 1995. Deux especes nouvelles d’Eucinetidae d’Amerique du Nord particulierement interessantes (Coleoptera: Eucinetidae). Elytron 9: 125-137.

Watrous, L. 1980. Lathrobium (Tetartopeus): natural history, phylogeny and revision of the nearctic species (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae). Systematic Entomology 5: 303-338.

Wheeler, Q. D., and J. V. McHugh. 1994. A new southern Appalachian species Dasycerus bicolor (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Dasycerinae) from declining endemic fir forests. Coleopterists Bulletin 48: 265-271.

Wolfe, G.W. 1979. A zoogeographic and taxonomic analysis of the Dytiscidae of Tennessee with an emphasis on the pulcher-undulatus species group of Hydroporus (Adephaga: Coleoptera). Ph.D. Dissertation. The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN. 153 pp.

Wolfe, G.W. 1980. The larva and pupa of Acilius fraternus fraternus (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae) from the Great Smoky Mountains, Tennessee. Coleopterists Bulletin 34: 121-126.

Woodroffe, G. E., and C. W. Coombs. 1961. A revision of the North American Cryptophagus Herbst (Coleoptera: Cryptophagidae). Miscellaneous Publications of the Entomological Society of America 2: 179-211.

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