SCAPHIDIINAE Latreille, 1807

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 : 201-202

Subfamily SCAPHIDIINAE Latreille, 1807

Tribe Cypariini Achard, 1924

0702. Cyparium Erichson, 1845: 3 ( Fig. 81 )

Type species: Cyparium palliatum Erichson, 1845

Yparicum Achard, 1920: 126 [synonymized by Löbl 1992: 498] Type species: Yparicum yunnanum Achard, 1920

27 species are included in this genus from Latin America.

Characters/Description: Matthews 1888: 165 (characters); Leschen & Löbl 1995: 448 (characters in key), 448 (characters); Hwang & Ahn 2001: 369 (characters); Navarrete-Heredia et al. 2002: 201 (characters in key); Fierros-Lopéz 2002: 8 (characters).

Key: Matthews 1888: 166 (species of Central America); Fierros-Lopéz 2002: 10 (Mexican species).

Distribution.

West Indies: Cuba, Jamaica, Dominican Republic.

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

South America: Colombia, Suriname, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil.

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

Figures

FIGURES 76–87. Habitus; Aleocharinae (76–80); Scaphidiinae (81–85); Piestinae (86–87); 76, after Kistner 2006; 77, after Borgmeier 1950; 78, after Pace 2007; 79, after Kistner 2006; 80, after Pace 2014c; 81, after Matthews 1888; 82, after Fierros- Lopéz 2005; 83, after Fierros-Lopéz 2005; 84, after Fierros-Lopéz 2006; 85, after Matthews 1888; 86, after Bortoluzzi et al. 2017; 87, Peru: department of Cuzco (CEMT); slightly modified. Scale bars: 1 mm.