Updated catalog and generic keys of the Leiodidae (Insecta: Coleoptera) of the Neotropical region (“ Latin America ”: Mexico, the West Indies, and Central and South America)
Author
Peck, Stewart B.
Author
Gnaspini, Pedro
Author
Newton, Alfred F.
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Zootaxa
2020
2020-02-18
4741
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journal article
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10.11646/zootaxa.4741.1.1
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Subfamily
CHOLEVINAE Kirby
(=
Catopinae
, Leptodirinae)
Cholevidae
Kirby, 1837: 108
[stem:
Cholev
-].
Type
genus:
Choleva
Latreille.
Distribution: Worldwide.
Note 1:
Jeannel (1936)
offered the first extensive revision of the subfamily (as family at that time), which subdivisions were afterwards revised in several instances.
Note 2:
Antunes-Carvalho
et al.
(2019)
offer a phylogenetic analysis of the subfamily.
Note. Tribe
LEPTODIRINI Lacordaire
, wrongly reported for the Neotropics:
The genus
Neotropospeonella
Pace, 1985: 542
,
1987: 195
and the species
N. decui
Pace, 1985: 542
,
1987: 197
were described from Cueva del Guacharo, Caripe,
Venezuela
and placed in the tribe
Lepdodirini Lacordaire
[1854 (1849)], where the subtribe
Neotropospeonellina Perkovsky [1997]
was proposed.
Perreau, 2003: 212
, 216 synonymized this genus and species into
Oryotus ravasinii
Müller [1922]
, a troglobitic species of
Italy
, and recognized the Venezuelan record as an error based on a mislabelled specimen. Therefore, all these taxa do not occur in the Neotropics.