Genus Aglyptinus Cockerell

Aglyptinus Cockerell, 1906: 240 (replacement name for Aglyptus LeConte, not Förster [1856]). Type species: Colenis laevis LeConte (monotypy).

= Aglyptus LeConte, 1866: 369 (preoccupied, not Förster [1856]). Type species: Colenis laevis LeConte (monotypy).

= Aglyptonotus Champion, 1913: 65 (replacement name for Aglyptus LeConte); Hatch, 1929a: 4 syn. (not stated as taxonomic change).

Key: to species of West Indies in Peck & Cook, 2014: 41.

Distribution: 41 species—Neotropical, eastern Nearctic, England, New Guinea. Note: An undetermined (?undescribed) species from Tobago Island (of Trinidad and Tobago) (Peck et al., 2002: 12), and many undescribed species (Seago & Wheeler, 2004: 235).

Biology: Often found on mushrooms and other epigean fungi in moist forests (Newton, 1984).