Lathrobiina Laporte, 1835

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 : 257-260

Subtribe Lathrobiina Laporte, 1835

0860. Attaxenus Wasmann, 1925b: 157

Type species: Attaxenus horridus Wasmann, 1925

Only one species is known from and is restricted to South America.

Distribution.

South America: Brazil.

0861. Dacnochilus LeConte, 1861: 66 ( Fig. 154 )

Type species: Dacnochilus laetus LeConte, 1863

Acalophaena Sharp, 1886: 554 [synonymized by Jiménez-Sánchez & Galián 2013: 82]

Type species: Calophaena basilis Lynch-Arribálzaga, 1884

Calophaena Lynch-Arribálzaga, 1884: 267 [synonymized by Sharp 1886: 554]

Type species: Calophaena basalis Lynch-Arribálzaga, 1884

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

Characters/Description: Blackwelder 1939: 98 (characters in key as Acalophaena ), 98 (characters in key); Navarrete-Heredia et al. 2002: 268 (characters in key as Acalophaena ), 268 (characters in key).

Distribution.

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

South America: Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina.

Other regions: Nearctic.

0862. Lathrobium Gravenhorst, 1802: 51

Type species: Staphylinus elongatus Linnaeus, 1767

Glyptomerodes Scheerpeltz, 1976c: 31 [nomen nudum, Newton & Thayer 2003]

Glyptomerodoschema Scheerpeltz, 1976c: 29 [synonymized by Assing 2012e: 164]

Type species: Lathrobium janetscheki Scheerpeltz, 1976

Lathrobius Billberg, 1820: 16 [synonymized by Blackwelder 1952: 211]

Type species: Staphylinus elongatus Linnaeus, 1767

Subgenera:

Abletobium Casey, 1905: 79

Type species: Abletobium pallescens Casey, 1905

Apteralium Casey, 1905: 77 [*]

Type species: Lathrobium brevipenne LeConte, 1863

Type species: Lathrobium krniense Joseph, 1868

Glyptomerus H. Müller, 1856: 308

Type species: Glyptomerus cavicola Müller, 1856

Typhlobium Kraatz, 1856a: 625 [synonymized by Kraatz 1857a: 668, 669]

Type species: Typhlobium stagophilum Kraatz, 1856

Lathrobioma Casey, 1905: 98

Type species: Lathrobium tenue LeConte, 1863

Lathrobiopsis Casey, 1905: 97

Type species: Lathrobiopsis texana Casey, 1905

Lathrobium Gravenhorst, 1802: 51 [*]

Type species: Staphylinus elongatus Linnaeus, 1767

Bathrolium Gozis, 1886: 14 [ Newton & Thayer, 2003]

Type species: Staphylinus punctatus Fourcroy, 1785

Centrocnemiella Strand, 1934: 276 [synonymized by Assing 2008a: 1270]

Type species: Lathrobium krniense Joseph, 1868

Centrocnemis Joseph, 1868: 366 [synonymized by Strand 1934: 276]

Hypophylladobius Fauvel, 1885: 34 [synonymized by Blackwelder 1952: 196]

Type species: Lathrobium anophthalmum Fauvel, 1885

Litolathra Casey, 1905: 93 [synonymized by Blackwelder 1939: 108]

Type species: Litolathra suspecta Casey, 1905

Lathrolepta Casey, 1905: 103

Type species: Lathrobium debile LeConte, 1880

Palaeolobrathium M. Abdullah & A. Abdullah, 1968: 2

Type species: Lathrobium whitei Abdullah & Abdullah, 1968

Sucoca Blackwelder, 1952: 365 [*]

Type species: Heterosoma dohrni Bernhauer, 1903

Heterosoma Bernhauer, 1903b: 33 [synonymized by Blackwelder 1952: 365]

Type species: Heterosoma dohrni Bernhauer, 1903

43 species are included in this genus from Latin America.

Characters/Description: Lynch-Arribálzaga 1884: 235 (characters); Blackwelder 1939: 97 (characters in key, Glyptomerus ); Blackwelder 1939: 98 (characters in key); Blackwelder 1943: 230 (characters in key), 307 (characters); Navarrete-Heredia et al. 2002: 268 (characters in key); Newton & Peck 2006: 149 (characters in key); Assing 2012d: 51 (characters).

Key: Lynch-Arribálzaga 1884: 237 (species of Buenos Aires province, Argentina); Blackwelder 1939: 98 (subgenera); Blackwelder 1943: 308 (species of the West Indies).

Distribution.

West Indies: Cuba, Jamaica, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Trinidad-Tobago.

Central America: Mexico, Guatemala.

South America: Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, Argentina.

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

0863. Lobrathium Mulsant & Rey, 1878b: 78

Type species: Lathrobium multipunctum Gravenhorst, 1802

Subgenera:

Eulathrobium Casey, 1905: 114

Type species: Lathrobium grande LeConte, 1863

Lathrotropis Casey, 1905: 115 [synonymized by Blackwelder 1939: 109]

Type species: Lathrobium jacobinum LeConte, 1863

Lobrathium Mulsant & Rey, 1878b: 78 [*]

Type species: Lathrobium multipunctum Gravenhorst, 1802

Lathrobiella Casey, 1905: 133 [synonymized by Blackwelder 1939: 109]

Type species: Lathrobium collaris Erichson, 1840

Lathrotaxis Casey, 1905: 122 [synonymized by Blackwelder 1939: 109]

Type species: Lathrobium longiusculum Gravenhorst, 1802

Paralobrathium Bordoni, 1999: 119 [synonymized by Assing 2007b: 753]

Type species: Lathrobium apicale Baudi di Selve, 1857

Ponthrobium Korge, 1971: 27

Type species: Lathrobium heinzi Korge, 1971

Allobrathium Coiffait, 1972a: 134 [synonymized by Coiffait 1981c: 53]

Type species: Lathrobium lethierryi Reiche, 1869

9 species are included in this genus from West and South America.

Characters/Description: Blackwelder 1939: 98 (characters in key); Blackwelder 1943: 230 (characters in key), 311 (characters).

Key: Blackwelder 1939: 98 (subgenera); Blackwelder 1943: 312 (species of the West Indies); Assing 2012d: 51 (characters).

Distribution.

West Indies: Cuba, Cayman Is., Haiti, Dominican Republic, US Virgin Isl.

Central America: Costa Rica.

South America: Brazil.

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

0864. Paederopsis Wasmann, 1912: 98

Type species: Paederopsis myrmecophila Wasmann, 1912

3 species are included in this genus from South America.

Distribution.

South America: Brazil.

Other regions: Nearctic.

0865. Platybrathium Bierig, 1933: 478

Type species: Platybrathium panamense Bierig, 1933

Only one species is known from and is restricted to Central America.

Distribution.

Central America: Panama.

0866. Pseudolathra Casey, 1905: 129

Type species: Lathrobium anale LeConte, 1880

Subgenera:

Allolathra Coiffait, 1972a: 132

Type species: Lathrobium methneri Bernhauer, 1915

Madecalobrathium Scheerpeltz, 1961: 251

Type species: Lathrobium keiseri Scheerpeltz, 1961

Pseudolathra Casey, 1905: 129 [*]

Type species: Lathrobium anale LeConte, 1880

Lathrobidium Portevin, 1929: 382 [ Newton & Thayer 2003]

Type species: Lathrobium lusitanicum Erichson, 1840

Linolathra Casey, 1905: 131 [synonymized by Blackwelder 1939: 110]

Type species: Linolathra filitarsis Casey, 1905

Microlathra Casey, 1905: 142 [synonymized by Blackwelder 1939: 110]

Type species: Lathrobium pallidulum LeConte, 1880

Paralathra Casey, 1905: 130 [synonymized by Blackwelder 1939: 110]

Type species: Paralathra filicornis Casey, 1905

5 species are included in this genus from Latin America.

Characters/Description: Coiffait & Sáiz 1968: 380 (characters in key), 390 (characters); Assing 2012d: 51 (characters).

Key: Coiffait & Sáiz 1968: 391 (Chilean species).

Distribution.

West Indies: Cuba, Haiti, Dominican Republic, US Virgin Isl., St. Lucia.

Central America: Mexico, Guatemala.

South America: Colombia, Venezuela, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, Chile, Argentina.

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

0867. Stereocephalus Lynch-Arribálzaga, 1884: 231 ( Fig. 174 )

Type species: Stereocephalus seriatipennis Lynch-Arribálzaga, 1884

5 species are known from and are restricted to South America.

Characters/Description: Lynch-Arribálzaga 1884: 231 (characters); Herman 1979: 2 (characters); Matějíček 2018: 65 (characters).

Key: Herman 1979: 4 (species of the genus); Matějíček 2018: 68 (species of the genus).

Distribution.

South America: Venezuela, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, Argentina.

0868. Tetartopeus Czwalina, 1888: 349

Type species: Lathrobium terminatum Gravenhorst, 1802

Deratopeus Casey, 1905: 112 [synonymized by Watrous 1980: 313]

Type species: Deratopeus parvipennis Casey, 1905

Only one species is included in this genus from West Indies.

Distribution.

West Indies: Cuba.

Other regions: Palaearctic, Oriental, Australian.

Figures

FIGURES 148–159. Habitus; Pseudopsinae (148–150); Paederinae (151–159); 148, after Herman 1975; 149, Ecuador: province of Napo (CNC); 150, after Asenjo & Ribeiro-Costa 2010; 151, after Bierig 1933; 152, after Sharp 1886; 153, after Assing 2012a; 154, after Jiménez-Sánchez & Galián 2013; 155, after Bierig 1933; 156, after Bruch 1928; 157, after Assing 2012b; 158, after Borgmeier 1936; 159, after Sharp 1886; slightly modified. Scale bars: 1 mm.

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.