Staphylinina Latreille, 1802

Asenjo, Angélico, Irmler, Ulrich, Klimaszewski, Jan, Chandler, Donald S., Fierros-López, Hugo Eduardo & Vieira, Juliana S., 2019, Staphylinidae (Insecta: Coleoptera) in Latin America: synopsis, annotated catalog, diversity and distribution, Zootaxa 4621 (1), pp. 1-406 : 301-305

Subtribe Staphylinina Latreille, 1802

1001. Creophilus Leach in Samouelle, 1819: 172 ( Figs. 183–185 )

Type species: Staphylinus maxillosus Linnaeus, 1758

Saprophilus Streubel, 1839: 136 [synonymized by Blackwelder 1952: 344]

Type species: Staphylinus maxillosus Linnaeus, 1758

5 species are included in this genus from Latin America.

Characters/Description: Moore & Legner 1979: 33 (chracters); Lynch-Arribálzaga 1884: 128 (characters); Blackwelder 1943: 394 (characters in key), 447 (characters); Smetana & Davies 2000: 18 (characters in key), 21 (characters); Navarrete-Heredia et al. 2002: 300 (characters in key); Newton & Peck 2006: 152 (characters in key); Clarke 2011: 755 (characters); Aballay et al. 2014: 104 (characters in key).

Key: Coiffait & Sáiz 1968: 364 (Chilean species); Clarke 2011: 758 (species of the genus).

Distribution.

West Indies: Cuba, Jamaica, Dominican Republic.

Central America: Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras.

South America: Galapagos Isl., Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, Chile, Argentina.

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

1002. Dinothenarus Thomson, 1858: 29 ( Fig. 187 )

Type species: Staphylinus pubescens DeGeer, 1774

Subgenera:

Dinothenarus Thomson, 1858: 29 [*]

Type species: Staphylinus pubescens DeGeer, 1774

Protabemus Scheerpeltz, 1966c: 114 , 115 [synonymized by Smetana 1992: 187]

Type species: Staphylinus xanthocephalus Kraatz, 1859

Parabemus Reitter, 1909: 118 [*]

Type species: Staphylinus fossor Scopoli, 1772

Hypabemus Scheerpeltz, 1966c: 112 , 116 [synonymized by Smetana & Davies 2000: 26]

Type species: Staphylinus chrysocomus Mannerheim, 1830

Parocypus Bernhauer, 1915c: 52 [synonymized by Smetana & Davies 2000: 26]

Type species: Staphylinus dehradunensis Bernhauer, 1915

3 species are included in this genus from Central America.

Characters/Description: Smetana & Davies 2000: 20 (characters in key), 26 (characters); Navarrete-Heredia et al. 2002: 300 (characters in key); Santiago-Jiménez 2008: 51 (characters).

Key: Santiago-Jiménez 2008: 56 (key to species of Dinothenarus s. str. of America).

Distribution.

Central America: Mexico.

Other regions: Nearctic, Palaearctic, Oriental.

1003. Hadrotes Mannerheim, 1852: 313

Type species: Staphylinus crassus Mannerheim, 1846

1 species is included in this genus from Central America. Characters/Description: LeConte 1861: 64 (characters in key); Horn 1879: 199 (characters); Hatch 1957: 212

(characters); Moore & Legner 1979: 34 (characters); Navarrete-Heredia et al. 2002: 300 (characters in key). Distribution. Central America: Mexico. Other regions: Nearctic, Australian.

1004. Leistotrophus Perty, 1830: 32 ( Fig. 197 )

Type species: Leistotrophus gravenhorsti Perty, 1830

Discocephalus Nordmann, 1837: 3 , tab. 1, fig. 8 [synonymized by Gemminger & Harold 1868: 576]

Type species: Staphylinus versicolor Gravenhorst, 1806

Schizochilus Gray in Griffith & Pidgeon, 1831: 304 [synonymized by Laporte 1835: 111]

Type species: Schizochilus brasiliensis Gray, 1832

1 species is included in this genus from Central and South America. Characters/Description: Smetana 1959: 394 (characters in key); Navarrete-Heredia et al. 2002: 300 (characters in key); Márquez & Asiain 2004: 256 (characters). Distribution. Central America: Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama. South America: Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina. Other regions: Nearctic.

1005. Ocypus Leach in Samouelle, 1819: 172

Type species: Staphylinus cyaneus Paykull, 1789

Subgenera:

Angulephallus Khachikov, 2005: 23

Type species: Staphylinus brunnipes Fabricius, 1781

Matidus Motschulsky, 1860b: 569

Type species: Matidus forficularius Motschulsky, 1860

Ocypus Leach in Samouelle, 1819: 172 [*]

Type species: Staphylinus cyaneus Paykull, 1789

Goerius Westwood, 1827: 58 [synonymized by Smetana & Davies 2000: 31]

Type species: Staphylinus olens O. Müller, 1764

Isopterum Gistel, 1856: 388 , 424 [synonymized by Blackwelder 1952: 205]

Type species: Staphylinus cyaneum Paykull, 1789

Nudabemus Coiffait, 1982: 74 [synonymized by Löbl & Smetana 2004: 674]

Type species: Nudabemus caerulescens Coiffait, 1982

Pseudocypus Mulsant & Rey, 1876: 291

Type species: Staphylinus mus Brullé, 1832

Fortunocypus Coiffait, 1964: 82 [synonymized by Coiffait 1974: 483]

Type species: Ocypus fortunatarum Wollaston, 1871

1 species is included in this genus from Central America.

Characters/Description: Smetana & Davies 2000: 21 (characters in key), 31 (characters); Navarrete-Heredia et al. 2002: 300 (characters in key).

Distribution.

Central America: Mexico.

Other regions: Nearctic, Palaearctic, Ethiopian.

1006. Ontholestes Ganglbauer, 1895: 417 ( Fig. 205 )

Type species: Staphylinus murinus Linnaeus, 1758

Trichoderma Stephens, 1833b: 98 [synonymized by Blackwelder 1952: 394]

Type species: Staphylinus murinus Linnaeus, 1758

1 species is included in this genus from South America.

Characters/Description: Smetana 1959: 394 (characters in key); Moore & Legner 1979: 27 (chracters); Smetana & Davies 2000: 19 (characters in key), 22 (characters).

Distribution.

South America: Suriname, Guyana, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina.

Other regions: Nearctic, Palaearctic, Ethiopian, Oriental.

1007. Platydracus Thomson, 1858: 29 ( Figs. 211–218 )

Type species: Staphylinus stercorarius Olivier, 1795

Subgenera:

Chaetodracus G. Müller, 1926: 27

Type species: Staphylinus patricius Bernhauer, 1915

Chitocompsus Bernhauer, 1913: 232

Type species: Staphylinus polyphemus Bernhauer , 191

Nesiolinus Bernhauer, 1915e: 122

Type species: Staphylinus bakeri Bernhauer, 1915

Paraplatydracus Levasseur, 1980: 369

Type species: Platydracus girardi Levasseur, 1980

Platydracus Thomson, 1858: 29 [*]

Type species: Staphylinus stercorarius Olivier, 1795

Amichorus Sharp, 1884: 390 [synonymized by Navarrete-Heredia et al. 2002: 323]

Type species: Amichorus fauveli Sharp, 1884

Bemasus Mulsant & Rey, 1876: 259 [synonymized by Bernhauer & Schubert 1914: 374]

Type species: Staphylinus lutarius Gravenhorst, 1806

Chapmaniella Bernhauer, 1934a: 145 [synonymized by Newton 2017: 28]

Type species: Chapmaniella miranda Bernhauer, 1934

Euryolinus Bernhauer, 1915b: 297 [synonymized by Newton 2017: 28]

Type species: Staphylinus semicyaneus Bernhauer, 1915

Glenothorax Bierig, 1937a: 199 [synonymized by Newton 2017: 28]

Type species: Glenothorax viridipennis Bierig, 1937

Neotasgius G. Müller, 1925: 41 [synonymized by Smetana & Davies 2000: 24, 39]

Type species: Ocypus brevicornis Weise, 1877

Plesiolinus Bernhauer, 1917c: 93 [synonymized by Newton 2017: 28]

Type species: Staphylinus costaricensis Bernhauer, 1916

Poikilodracus Scheerpeltz, 1974: 168

Type species: Staphylinus brincki Scheerpeltz, 1974

Tropoplatydracus Levasseur, 1980: 367

Type species: Platydracus lecordieri Levasseur, 1980

88 species are included in this genus from Latin America.

Characters/Description: Lynch-Arribálzaga 1884: 135 (characters as Staphylinus ); Blackwelder 1943: 394 (characters in key as Staphylinus ); Smetana & Davies 2000: 18 (characters in key), 24 (characters); Navarrete- Heredia et al. 2002: 300 (characters in key); Aballay et al. 2014: 104 (characters in key); Newton 2017: 30 (characters).

Key: Lynch-Arribálzaga 1884: 137 (species of Buenos Aires province, Argentina); Márquez et al. 2004: 28 (some Mexican species).

Distribution.

West Indies: Cuba, Trinidad-Tobago.

Central America: Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama.

South America: Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, Chile, Argentina.

Other regions: Nearctic, Palaearctic, Ethiopian, Madagascan, Oriental.

1008. Thinopinus LeConte, 1852: 215

Type species: Thinopinus pictus LeConte, 1852

Trichocanthus Motschulsky, 1853: 78 [synonymized by Gemminger & Harold 1868: 576]

Type species: Trichocanthus variegatus Motschulsky, 1853

1 species is included in this genus from Central America.

Characters/Description: Moore & Legner 1979: 35 (chracters); Navarrete-Heredia et al. 2002: 300 (characters in key).

Distribution.

Central America: Mexico.

Other regions: Nearctic.

Figures

FIGURES 172–183. Habitus; Paederinae (172–175); Staphylininae (176–183); 172, after Fauvel 1901; 173, after Assing 2013; 174, after Herman 1979; 175, after Sharp 1886; 176, after Brunke & Solodovnikov 2014a; 177, Chile: region of Valparaíso (MUSM); 178, Chile: region Metropolitana de Santiago (MUSM); 179, Chile: region of Araucanía (MUSM); 180, Chile: region of Valparaíso (MUSM); 181, after Ashe & Timm 1988; 182, Brazil: state of Paraná (MUSM); 183, Chile: region of Antofagasta (CEMT); slightly modified. Scale bars: 1 mm.

FIGURES 184–195. Habitus; Staphylininae (184–195); 184, Peru: department of Lima (MUSM); 185, Brazil: state of Paraná (MUSM); 186, after Chatzimanolis 2014a; 187, after Santiago-Jiménez 2008; 188, after Smetana 1982; 189, after Chatzimanolis 2012; 190, Peru: department of Madre de Dios (CEMT); 191, after Navarrete-Heredia & Márquez 1998; 192, after Klimaszewski et al. 2013; 193, after Márquez 2001; 194, after Erichson 1840; 195, after Márquez 2003; slightly modified. Scale bars: 1 mm.

FIGURES 196–207. Habitus; Staphylininae (196–207); 196, after Chatzimanolis 2008; 197, Venezuela: state of Merida (MUSM); 198, Peru: department of Puno (MEKRB); 199, after Chani-Posse & Solodovnikov 2017; 200, after Busanello & Caron 2016; 201, after Brunke & Solodovnikov 2014b; 202, after Asiain & Márquez 2003; 203, after Asiain & Márquez 2012; 204, after Chani-Posse & Solodovnikov 2017; 205, after Costa-Silva et al. 2018; 206, after Chani-Posse 2014b; 207, after Klimaszewski et al. 2013; slightly modified. Scale bars: 1 mm.

FIGURES 208–219. Habitus; Staphylininae (208–219); 208, Chile: region Metropolitana de Santiago (MUSM); 209, after Navarrete-Heredia 2003; 210, after Asenjo & Ribeiro-Costa 2009; 211, Peru: department of Cuzco (MUSM); 212, Argentina: province of Jujuy (MUSM); 213, Peru: department of Madre de Dios (MUSM); 214, Peru: department of Cuzco (MUSM); 215, Peru: department of Madre de Dios (MUSM); 216, Peru: department of Lima (MUSM); 217, Peru: department of Cuzco (MUSM); 218, Brazil: state of Paraná (MUSM); 219, after Smetana 1982; slightly modified. Scale bars: 1 mm.