Introduction. The name of each listed species is followed by up to five sources that report the species as occurring in Michigan. Sources in all upper-case letters refer to specific insect collections: MSU-ARC refers to material held by the Michigan State University Arthropod Research Collection (data provided by G. Parsons). All others refer to collection data extracted from the Symbiota Collections of Arthropods Network (SCAN) database online at https://scan-bugs.org/.  See the Methods page for a list of abbreviations and associated collections.

Species names preceded by a single '?' are considered probable (for occurring in Michigan) but uncertain records. Those preceded by '??' are considered possible but unlikely to occur in Michigan. Species that are fully accepted as having valid Michigan records are unmarked.  Species reported in the literature that we consider to be erroneous Michigan records are in a separate list following the others.

BRACHYCERIDAE

1 subfamily, 3 tribes, 10 genera, 16 species (plus one species reported for Michigan in error and one not established)

Subfamily Erirhininae

        Tribe Erirhinini

Grypus equiseti (Fabricius, 1775): O'Brien and Anderson (1996), Downie and Arnett (1996), Hubbard and Schwarz (1878), MSU-ARC      

Notaris aethiops (Fabricius, 1793): O'Brien and Wibmer (1982), Downie and Arnett (1996), MSU-ARC      

Tournotaris bimaculatus (Fabricius, 1787): O'Brien and Anderson (1996), Downie and Arnett (1996), AUMNH:ENT      

Notaris puncticollis (LeConte, 1876): O'Brien and Anderson (1996), Downie and Arnett (1996), Hubbard and Schwarz (1878), MSU-ARC; GBIF retains this in Erycus

Procas lecontei Bedel, 1879: O'Brien and Anderson (1996), Downie and Arnett (1996), MSU-ARC      

        Tribe Stenopelmini

Brachybamus electus Germar, 1836: Clampitt et al. (1996), MSU-ARC; MSU-ARC has 32 specimens in 3 series, IDed by Schreibner, Board, & Sleeper. All IDs confirmed.

Lissorhoptrus buchanani Kuschel, 1951: O'Brien and Haseeb (2014), O'Brien and Anderson (1996), Downie and Arnett (1996), MSU-ARC      

Lissorhoptrus lacustris Kuschel, 1951: O'Brien and Haseeb (2014), O'Brien and Wibmer (1982), Downie and Arnett (1996), MSU-ARC      

Lissorhoptrus oryzophilus Kuschel, 1951: O'Brien and Anderson (1996), Downie and Arnett (1996), MSU-ARC      

?Lissorhoptrus simplex (Say, 1832): Hubbard and Schwarz (1878), Andrews (1916), MSU-ARC; in IN in O'Brien and Anderson (1996), said to often be confused with Onychylis longulus LeConte. MSU-ARC has 1 specimen from the E.S. George Reserve, Pinckney, identified as Lissorhoptrus simplex by WGR 6/11/21.

Notiodes limatulus (Gyllenhal, 1836): O'Brien and Wibmer (1982), Downie and Arnett (1996), Hubbard and Schwarz (1878), MSU-ARC      

Notiodes ovalis (LeConte, 1876): O'Brien and Wibmer (1982), Hubbard and Schwarz (1878), MSU-ARC      

Onychylis longulus LeConte, 1876: O'Brien and Anderson (1996), Downie and Arnett (1996), Hubbard and Schwarz (1878)      

Onychylis nigrirostris (Boheman, 1843): O'Brien and Anderson (1996), Downie and Arnett (1996), Hubbard and Schwarz (1878), MSU-ARC      

        Tribe Tanysphyrini

Tanysphyrus ater Blatchley, 1928: Downie and Arnett (1996), MSU-ARC; now not considered a jr. syn. of T. lemnae by most

Tanysphyrus lemnae (Fabricius, 1792): O'Brien and Anderson (1996), Downie and Arnett (1996), Hubbard and Schwarz (1878), MSU-ARC      

The following species have been reported from Michigan, but we consider them to be adventive, misidentifications or other errors:

Procas picipes (Marsham, 1831): Hubbard and Schwarz (1878), as Procas picipes Steph. in Curculionidae; P. picipes is Old World & not in NA, this prob. refers to P. lecontei

Stenopelmus rufinasus Gyllenhal, 1835: MSU-ARC; collected from indoor Azolla culture, presumed not established in the wild

This family list was last updated: October 5, 2021