Goniacerini Reitter, 1882b

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 : 68-69

Tribe Goniacerini Reitter, 1882b

0218. Adrocerus Raffray, 1890b: 132

Type species: Adrocerus cavicornis Raffray, 1890

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

Characters/Description: Raffray 1904a: 303 (characters in key); Raffray 1908a: 296 (characters in key), 300 (characters); O. Park 1942: 284 (characters in key); Comellini 1979: 689 (characters in key).

Distribution.

South America: Brazil.

0219. Enneameron Comellini, 1990b: 345

Type species: Enneameron orousseti Comellini, 1990

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

Distribution.

South America: French Guiana.

0220. Goniaceroides Raffray, 1918: 483

Type species: Goniaceroides umbilicatus Raffray, 1918

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

Characters/Description: O. Park 1942: 284 (characters in key); Comellini 1979: 689 (characters in key). Distribution.

South America: Paraguay.

0221. Goniacerus Motschulsky, 1855: 17

Type species: Goniacerus gibbus Motschulsky, 1855

Metopioides L.W. Schaufuss, 1872: 245 [synonymized by L.W. Schaufuss 1877a: 451]

Type species: Metopioides setifer L.W. Schaufuss, 1877

27 species are known from and are restricted to Central and South America.

Characters/Description: Raffray 1904a: 302 (characters in key); Raffray 1908a: 296 (characters in key), 298 (characters); O. Park 1942: 284 (characters in key), 285 (characters); Comellini 1979: 689 (characters in key); Comellini 1990a: 224 (characters). Key: Comellini 1990a: 224 (species of the genus). Distribution. Central America: Costa Rica, Panama. South America: Venezuela, French Guiana, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil.

0222. Goniastes Westwood, 1870: 125

Type species: Goniastes sulcifrons Westwood, 1870

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

Characters/Description: Raffray 1904a: 303 (characters in key); Raffray 1908a: 296 (characters in key), 299 (characters); O. Park 1942: 284 (characters in key); Comellini 1979: 682 (characters), 689 (characters in key); Comellini 1981a: 249 (characters).

Distribution.

South America: French Guiana, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay.

0223. Heptameron Comellini, 1979: 687

Type species: Heptameron reticulatum Comellini, 1979

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

Characters/Description: Comellini 1979: 689 (characters in key).

Distribution.

Central America: Costa Rica.

0224. Listriophorus L.W. Schaufuss, 1872: 245

Type species: Listriophorus felix L.W. Schaufuss, 1874

8 species are known from and are restricted to Central and South America.

Characters/Description: Raffray 1904a: 302 (characters in key); Raffray 1908a: 296 (characters in key), 298 (characters); O. Park 1942: 284 (characters in key), 284 (characters); O. Park 1944: 242 (characters in key); Comellini 1979: 689 (characters in key); Comellini 1981b: 345 (characters); Chandler 2002: 52 (characters in key).

Key: O. Park 1944: 251 (Mexican species); Comellini 1981b: 347 (species groups).

Distribution.

Central America: Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica.

South America: Venezuela, Brazil.

0225. Paragoniastes Comellini, 1979: 681 ( Fig. 29 )

Type species: Paragoniastes raffrayi Comellini, 1979

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

Characters/Description: Comellini 1979: 682 (characters), 689 (characters in key); Cuccodoro et al. 2012: 2 (characters).

Key: Cuccodoro et al. 2012: 2 (species of the genus).

Distribution.

South America: Brazil.

Figures

FIGURES 28–39. Habitus; Pselaphinae (28–29), Phloeocharinae (30–31), Tachyporinae (32–38), Habrocerinae (39); 28, after Bruch 1933c; 29, after Cuccodoro et al. 2012; 30, after Navarrete-Heredia et al. 2002; 31, after Sharp 1887a; 32, after Klimaszewski et al. 2013; 33, after Sharp 1883; 34, after Sharp 1884; 35, after Scheerpeltz 1972d; 36, after Sharp 1884; 37, after Campbell 1979; 38, after Bruch 1932; 39, after Klimaszewski et al. 2013; slightly modified. Scale bars: 1 mm.