NEOPHONINAE Fauvel, 1905

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 : 20-22

Subfamily NEOPHONINAE Fauvel, 1905

0024. Neophonus Fauvel, 1905: 99 ( Fig. 19 )

Type species: Neophonus bruchi Fauvel, 1905

Central America: Panama.

South America: Bolivia, Brazil, Chile.

0028. Oxarthrius Reitter, 1883a: 378 ( Fig. 28 )

Type species: Oxarthrius bispinosus Reitter, 1883

Subgenera:

Baroxarthrius O. Park, 1942: 244 [*]

Type species: Oxarthrius escharus O. Park, 1942

Oxarthrius Reitter, 1883a: 378 [*]

Type species: Oxarthrius bispinosus Reitter, 1883

13 species are known from and are restricted Central and South America.

Characters/Description: Reitter 1888: 248 (characters); Raffray 1894: 230 (characters in key), 261 (characters); Raffray 1898a: 436 (characters); Raffray 1904a: 4 (characters in key); Raffray 1908a: 134 (characters in key), 153 (characters); O. Park 1942: 215 (characters in key), 240 (characters); Chandler 2002: 52 (characters in key); Chandler 2013: 324 (characters of Baroxarthrius ); Asenjo et al. 2018: 414 (characters).

Key: Raffray 1898a: 437 (species); O. Park 1942: 241 (subgenera), 241 (species of subgenus Oxarthrius ).

Distribution.

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

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

0029. Syrbatus Reitter, 1882a: 134

Type species: Batrisus clypeatus Reitter, 1882

Subgenera:

Syrbatidius Jeannel, 1952c: 212

Type species: Syrbatus collarti Jeannel, 1950

Syrbatodes Jeannel, 1959: 318 [synonymized by Leleup 1973: 49]

Type species: Syrbatus leleupi Jeannel, 1950

Syrbatus Reitter, 1882a: 134 [*]

Type species: Batrisus clypeatus Reitter, 1882

30 species are included in this genus from South America.

Characters/Description: Raffray 1894: 231 (characters in key); Raffray 1898a: 443 (characters), 443 (characters in key); Raffray 1904a: 4 (characters in key); Raffray 1908a: 134 (characters in key); O. Park 1942: 215 (characters in key), 233 (characters); Leleup 1981: 34 (characters).

Key: Reitter 1888: 244 (Brazilian species of the genus); Raffray 1898a: 443 (species of the genus); Raffray 1904a: 15 (species group); O. Park 1942: 233–236 (group of species and species).

Distribution.

South America: Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina.

Other regions: Ethiopian.

0030. Syrmocerus Raffray, 1898a: 459

Type species: Arthmius cervus Raffray, 1898

6 species are known from and are restricted to South America. Characters/Description: Raffray 1898a: 443 (characters in key), 459 (characters); Raffray 1904a: 4 (characters in key); Raffray 1908a: 134 (characters in key), 153 (characters); O. Park 1942: 215 (characters in key), 238 (characters); Borgmeier 1954: 201 (characters). Key: Raffray 1898a: 459 (species of the genus); O. Park 1942: 238 (species of the genus). Distribution. South America: Brazil.

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.

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.