University of Nebraska - Lincoln DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln Center for Systematic Entomology, Gainesville, Insecta Mundi Florida 10-27-2017 Nemonychidae and Anthribidae of Wisconsin (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea) Julia Janicki Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University, [email protected] Daniel K. Young University of Wisconsin, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/insectamundi Part of the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Commons, and the Entomology Commons Janicki, Julia and Young, Daniel K., "Nemonychidae and Anthribidae of Wisconsin (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea)" (2017). Insecta Mundi. 1085. http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/insectamundi/1085 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Center for Systematic Entomology, Gainesville, Florida at DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln. 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Young Department of Entomology University of Wisconsin-Madison Madison, WI 53706 U.S.A. [email protected] Abstract. A statewide survey of Wisconsin’s Nemonychidae and Anthribidae (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea) was conducted over one full (2012) and two partial (2011, 2013) fi eld seasons. Specimens were collected using a variety of techniques. Two species of the nemonychid genus Cimberis and 22 species of Anthribidae in 13 genera are now confi rmed. Generic and species-level keys for Wisconsin species are provided along with generic and species diag- noses. Species treatments also include a synonymy, a description, and information on natural history, phenology, distribution and collecting methods. Dorsal and lateral habitus images are also provided for most of the species. Key Words. Primitive weevils, faunal survey. Introduction Faunal surveys provide the primary method for establishing baseline knowledge of the geographical and phenological distributions, diversity and natural history of organisms. This contribution is the fi rst to actively target the Wisconsin or western Great Lakes fauna of primitive weevil families Nemonychi- dae and Anthribidae. It establishes a list of Wisconsin species, a state with a diversity of habitat types and natural communities. The taxa surveyed are families within the superfamily Curculionoidea: one of the largest super- families of Coleoptera with around 62,000 described species worldwide (Oberprieler et al. 2007). It constitutes 12.8% of the entire North American beetle fauna (Marske and Ivie 2003). The basal families Nemonychidae and Anthribidae are comprised of 3,936 described species worldwide (Nemonychidae = 76, Anthribidae = 3860) (Oberprieler et al. 2007) and 137 species (Nemonychidae = 17, Anthribidae = 120) in North America north of Mexico (Anderson 2002; Valentine 2002). Primitive weevils (Nemonychidae, Anthribidae, Belidae, Caridae, Attelabidae, and Brentidae) share the common characteristic of having straight, as opposed to geniculate, antennae (except for Nanophyinae of Brentidae, which independently acquired that character state). The primitive weevil families have existed as extant lineages for at least 140 million years (Kuschel 2003) and are phyloge- netically basal to Curculionidae (e.g., Marvaldi et al. 2002; McKenna et al. 2009). Nemonychidae, among the more primitive curculionoid families, is known from pre-Cretaceous fossils and extant taxa exhibit little differentiation (Bright 1993). Their diet has changed little as well: they still solely feed on pollen from cones of gymnosperms, except for Nemonyx lepturoides (Fabricius), which feeds on Ranunculaceae (Kuschel 2003). The clade including Nemonychidae and Anthribidae is currently considered to represent the most basal lineage of Curculionoidea, sister group to the remaining families (McKenna et al. 2009). These two families share similar ovipositor structures as well as similar ventral abdominal setiferous patches (Marvaldi et al. 2002). Larvae of nemonychids and anthribids have a molar area, distinguishing them from the other weevil families (Bright 1993). 2 • INSECTA MUNDI 0579, October 2017 JANICKI AND YOUNG Materials and Methods An initial literature search yielded seven published species records from Wisconsin, only one of which was provided with county or more specifi c distributional data. These records were augmented by material from museum and private collections to expand the provisional species list. Additional sites were identifi ed based on habitat types and associated plants and fungi to conduct fi eldwork over one full (April – September 2012) and two partial (July – September 2011, April – August 2013) fi eld seasons to improve the number and distribution of survey sites. Natural history data, including plant/ fungal associations, habitat associations, and fl ight period, were recorded from personal observations, existing literature and label data. Field collected specimens contributing to this survey were obtained using a variety of collecting techniques. Available natural history information suggested that oak and pine barrens as well as prai- ries and hardwood forests would be the best habitats to explore. The most fruitful collecting techniques included sweeping vegetation, beating foliage of trees and shrubs, as well as hand collecting. Sorting bulk trap residue samples (primarily Lindgren funnel, Malaise, and fl ight intercept trap samples in the University of Wisconsin Insect Research Collection (hereafter, WIRC) provided a good