MICROPEPLINAE Leach, 1815

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 : 19-20

Subfamily MICROPEPLINAE Leach, 1815

0021. Arrhenopeplus Blackwelder, 1952: 63 ( Fig. 16 )

Type species: Micropeplus tesserula Curtis, 1828

Arrhenopeplus C. Koch, 1937: 257 [nomen nudum, validated by Blackwelder 1952: 63]

Type species: [no type species designated]

Subgenera:

Arrhenopeplus Blackwelder, 1952: 63 [*]

Type species: Micropeplus tesserula Curtis, 1828

Sphaeropeplus Coiffait, 1982: 127

Type species: Arrhenopeplus quatordecimcarinatus Coiffait, 1982

1 species is included in this genus from Central America.

Distribution.

Central America: Mexico, Panama.

Other regions: Nearctic, Palaearctic.

0022. Micropeplus Latreille, 1809: 377 ( Fig. 17 )

Type species: Staphylinus porcatus Paykull, 1789

3 species are included in this genus from Central America.

Characters/Description: Campbell 1968: 228 (characters in key), 230 (characters); Campbell 1978: 1257 (characters in key); Navarrete-Heredia et al. 2002: 47 (characters in key).

Key: Campbell 1968: 231 (species of the genus); Campbell 1973c: 575 (species of the genus); Campbell 1978: 1257 (species of the genus).

Distribution. Central America: Mexico. Other regions: Nearctic, Palaearctic, Ethiopian, Oriental.

0023. Peplomicrus Bernhauer, 1928c: 286 ( Fig. 18 )

Type species: Micropeplus uyttenboogaarti Bernhauer, 1928

7 species are included in this genus from Latin America.

Characters/Description: Campbell 1968: 228 (characters in key), 252 (characters in key); Campbell 1978: 1257 (characters in key); Campbell 1986: 62 (characters); Navarrete-Heredia et al. 2002: 47 (characters in key).

Key: Campbell 1968: 253 (species of the genus); Campbell 1978: 1257 (species of the genus); Campbell 1986: 68 (species of the New World); Campbell 1991b: 40 (species group and species of New World).

Distribution.

West Indies: Dominican Republic.

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

South America: Colombia, Venezuela, Suriname, French Guiana, Ecuador, Peru.

Other regions: Palaearctic, Ethiopian.

Figures

FIGURES 16–27. Habitus; Micropeplinae (16–18), Neophoninae (19), Pselaphinae (20–27); 16, after Campbell 1968; 17, after Campbell 1973c; 18, after Tronquet & Degallier 2010; 19 Chile: region of Los Lagos (VMDC); 20, after Reitter 1883b; 21, after Reitter 1889; 22, after Bryant 1915; 23, after Raffray 1887; 24, after Asenjo 2016; 25, after Asenjo et al. 2017; 26, after O. Park 1952b; 27, after Bruch 1929; slightly modified. Scale bars: 1 mm.