Tribe Proteinini Erichson, 1839b

0018. Megarthrus Curtis, 1829: 28 (Fig. 13)

Type species: Staphylinus depressus Paykull, 1789

Phloeobium Dejean, 1833: 69 [synonymized by Lacordaire 1854: 147]

Type species: Staphylinus depressus Paykull, 1910

Psyllius Gistel, 1834: 9 [synonymized by Blackwelder 1952: 331]

Type species: Staphylinus depressus Paykull, 1910

13 species are included in this genus from Central and South America.

Characters/Description: Kistner 1961b: 2238 (characters); Navarrete-Heredia et al. 2002: 45 (characters in key); Cuccodoro 2011: 122 (characters).

Key: Cuccodoro & Löbl 1996: 146 (species of the America north of Mexico).

Distribution.

Central America: Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica.

South America: Colombia, Peru, Argentina.

Other regions: Nearctic, Palaearctic, Ethiopian, Oriental, Australian, Oceanic.

0019. Proteinus Latreille, 1797: 9 (Figs. 14–15)

Type species: Dermestes brachypterus Fabricius, 1792

2 species are included in this genus from the West Indies and Central America.

Characters/Description: Coiffait & Sáiz 1968: 456 (characters); Navarrete-Heredia et al. 2002: 45 (characters in key).

Distribution.

West Indies: Jamaica.

Central America: Costa Rica.

Other regions: Nearctic, Palaearctic, Ethiopian, Oriental.