Tribe Tachyporini W.S. MacLeay, 1825
0283. Cilea Jacquelin du Val, 1856: 25 (Fig. 32)
Type species: Staphylinus silphoides Linnaeus, 1767
Astictus Thomson, 1858: 36 [synonymized by Thomson 1861: 153]
Type species: Staphylinus silphoides Linnaeus, 1767
Leucoparyphus Kraatz, 1857a: 393 [synonymized by Thomson 1861: 153] Type species: Staphylinus silphoides Linnaeus, 1767
1 species is included in this genus from the West Indies and South America.
Characters/Description: Blackwelder 1943: 509 (characters in key as Leucoparyphus), 510 (characters as Leucoparyphus); Campbell 1975a: 199 (characters); Navarrete-Heredia et al. 2002: 106 (characters in key).
Key: Campbell 1975a: 177 (some species of America north of Mexico); Campbell 1994: 140 (some species of the genus).
Distribution.
West Indies: Puerto Rico, US Virgin Isl., Guadeloupe, St. Vincent & Grenadines, Barbados, Grenada, Trinidad- Tobago.
South America: Brazil.
Other regions: Nearctic, Palaearctic, Ethiopian, Madagascan, Oriental.
0284. Cileoporus Campbell, 1994: 126
Type species: Tachinus politus Bernhauer, 1923
2 species are known from and are restricted to Central and South America.
Characters/Description: Campbell 1994: 141 (characters in key); Navarrete-Heredia et al. 2002: 106 (characters in key).
Key: Campbell 1994: 143 (species of the genus).
Distribution.
Central America: Guatemala, Costa Rica, Panama.
South America: Colombia, Ecuador, Brazil, Argentina.
0285. Coproporus Kraatz, 1857a: 399 (Fig. 33)
Type species: Coproporus colchicus Kraatz, 1858
Erchomus Motschulsky, 1858b: 218 [synonymized by Ganglbauer 1895: 336]
Type species: Erchomus sanguinolentus Motschulsky, 1858
80 species (1 in Dominican amber) are included in this genus from Latin America.
Characters/Description: Lynch-Arribálzaga 1884: 108 (characters as Erchomus); Blackwelder 1943: 509 (characters in key), 512 (characters); Campbell 1975a: 177 (characters); Campbell 1994: 140 (characters in key); Navarrete-Heredia et al. 2002: 106 (characters in key); Newton & Peck 2006: 134 (characters in key).
Key: Blackwelder 1943: 512 (species of the West Indies); Campbell 1975a: 177 (some species of America north of Mexico).
Distribution.
West Indies: Cuba, Cayman Is., Jamaica, Haiti, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, US Virgin Isl., Antigua & Barbuda, Montserrat, Guadeloupe, Dominica, St. Lucia, St. Vincent & Grenadines, Grenada, Trinidad- Tobago.
Central America: Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama.
South America: Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, French Guiana, Galapagos Isl., Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, Chile?, Argentina.
Other regions: Nearctic, Palaearctic, Ethiopian, Madagascan, Oriental, Australian, Oceanic.
0286. Leucotachinus Coiffait & Sáiz, 1968: 411
Type species: Tachinus luteonitens Fairmaire & Germain, 1862
2 species are included in this genus from South America.
Characters/Description: Coiffait & Sáiz 1968: 411 (characters); Campbell 1994: 141 (characters in key). Distribution.
South America: Chile.
Other regions: Australian.
0287. Sepedophilus Gistel, 1856: 267, 386 (Fig. 36)
Type species: Staphylinus pubescens Paykull, 1790
38 species are included in this genus from Latin America.
Characters/Description: Campbell 1994: 140 (characters in key); Campbell 1976b: 5 (characters); H.J. Kim & Ahn 2000a: 251 (characters); Navarrete-Heredia et al. 2002: 105 (characters in key).
Key: Campbell 1976b: 9 (species group and species of the America north of Mexico); Coiffait & Sáiz 1968: 407 (Chilean species as Conosomus).
Distribution.
West Indies: Cuba, Jamaica, Haiti, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Montserrat, Guadeloupe, St. Vincent & Grenadines, Trinidad-Tobago.
Central America: Mexico, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama.
South America: Colombia, Venezuela, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Argentina.
Other regions: Nearctic, Palaearctic, Ethiopian, Madagascan, Oriental, Australian, Oceanic.
0288. Tachinomorphus Kraatz, 1859a: 54
Type species: Tachinus fulvipes Erichson, 1840
Physetoporus Horn, 1877: 106 [synonymized by Bernhauer & Schubert 1916: 487]
Type species: Coproporus grossulus LeConte, 1863
6 species are included in this genus from Central and South America.
Characters/Description: Campbell 1973a: 1016 (characters); Campbell 1994: 140 (characters in key); Navarrete- Heredia et al. 2002: 106 (characters in key).
Key: Campbell 1973a: 1018 (species of the genus).
Distribution.
Central America: Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Panama.
South America: Ecuador, Peru.
Other regions: Nearctic, Palaearctic, Ethiopian, Oriental, Australian.
0289. Tachinus Gravenhorst, 1802: 134
Type species: Staphylinus rufipes Linnaeus, 1758
Subgenera:
Latotachinus Ullrich, 1975: 282
Type species: Tachinus punctiventris Sharp, 1888
Tachinoderus Motschulsky, 1858b: 217 [*]
Type species: Tachinoderus longicornis Motschulsky, 1858
Paratachinus Blackwelder, 1952: 293 [synonymized by Ullrich 1975: 291]
Type species: Paratachinus laticollis Cameron, 1932
Paracoproporus Bernhauer, 1917b: 42 [synonymized by Campbell 1993b: 41]
Type species: Coproporus grandicollis Bernhauer, 1917
Tachinus Gravenhorst, 1802: 134 [*]
Type species: Staphylinus rufipes Linnaeus, 1758
Conosoma Kraatz, 1857a: 431 [synonymized by Ganglbauer 1895: 354]
Type species: Oxyporus bipustulatus Fabricius, 1792
Conosomus Motschulsky, 1858c: 54 [synonymized by Bernhauer & Schubert 1916: 465]
Type species: Oxyporus bipustulatus Fabricius, 1792
Conurus Stephens, 1829a: 22 [synonymized by Kraatz 1857a: 431]
Type species: Oxyporus bipustulatus Fabricius, 1792
Drymoporus Thomson, 1859: 46 [synonymized by Gemminger & Harold 1 868: 554]
Type species: Tachinus elongatus Gyllenhal, 1810
Elliptoma Motschulsky, 1845: 41 [synonymized by Gemminger & Harold 1868: 554]
Type species: Staphylinus marginellus Fabricius, 1781
Hamotraho Gozis, 1886: 13 [synonymized by Bernhauer & Schubert 1916: 479]
Type species: Staphylinus subterraneus Linnaeus, 1758
Japanotachinus Ullrich, 1975: 288 [synonymized by Schülke 2015: 7]
Type species: Tachinus nakanei Ullrich, 1975
Neocharidius Marié, 1928b: 86 [synonymized by Campbell 1 973b: 13]
Type species: Tachinus manueli Sharp, 1874
Neocharis Marié, 1928a: 13 [synonymized by Scheerpeltz 1934: 1508]
Type species: Tachinus manueli Sharp, 1874
Porodrymus Rey, 1882: 303 [synonymized by Duvivier 1883: 129]
Type species: Tachinus discoideus Erichson, 1839
Pterygotachinus Scheerpeltz, 1976b: 160 [synonymized by Schülke 1997: 46]
Type species: Pterygotachinus lacinipennis Scheerpeltz, 1976
8 species are included in this genus from Central and South America.
Characters/Description: Lynch-Arribálzaga 1884: 105 (characters of Conosoma); Coiffait & Sáiz 1968: 406 (characters of Conosomus), 413 (characters); Blackwelder 1943: 509 (characters in key of Conosomus), 524 (characters of Conosomus); Campbell 1973b: 13 (characters); Campbell 1994: 141 (characters in key); H.J. Kim & Ahn 2000b: 125 (characters); Navarrete-Heredia et al. 2002: 106 (characters in key).
Key: Coiffait & Sáiz 1968: 407 (Chilean species); Campbell 1973b: 15, 19 (species group and species of the North and Central America); Campbell 1975b: 87, 88 (some species of the genus); Campbell 1976a: 196 (species of the Mexico and Central America); Li 1995: 53 (subgenera).
Distribution.
Central America: Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Panama.
South America: Chile.
Other regions: Nearctic, Palaearctic, Ethiopian, Oriental.
0290. Tachyporus Gravenhorst, 1802: 124 (Fig. 37)
Type species: Staphylinus chrysomelinus Linnaeus, 1758
Subgenera:
Palporus Campbell, 1979: 11 [*]
Type species: Staphylinus nitidulus Fabricius, 1781
Tachyporus Gravenhorst, 1802: 124 [*]
Type species: Staphylinus chrysomelinus Linnaeus, 1758
Trachyopus Rey, 1882: 237 [synonymized by Bernhauer & Schubert 1916: 472]
Type species: Tachyporus tersus Erichson, 1839
9 species are included in this genus from Central America. Characters/Description: Campbell 1979: 5 (characters); Campbell 1994: 140 (characters in key); Navarrete-
Heredia et al. 2002: 106 (characters in key). Key: Campbell 1979: 8 (subgenera and species of the New World). Distribution.
Central America: Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica.
Other regions: Nearctic, Palearctic, Ethiopian, Oriental, Australian.
0291. Termitoplus Silvestri, 1946b: 547
Type species: Termitoplus grandis Silvestri, 1946
Only one species is known from and is restricted to South America.
Distribution.
South America: Brazil, Argentina.