Staphylinidae (Insecta: Coleoptera) in Latin America: synopsis, annotated catalog, diversity and distribution
Author
Asenjo, Angélico
Author
Irmler, Ulrich
Author
Klimaszewski, Jan
Author
Chandler, Donald S.
Author
Fierros-López, Hugo Eduardo
Author
Vieira, Juliana S.
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Zootaxa
2019
2019-06-21
4621
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journal article
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Tribe
Diochini
Casey, 1906
0943.
Antarctothius
Coiffait & Sáiz, 1969: 279
Type
species:
Othius antarcticus
Fairmaire, 1885
2 species are known from and are restricted to South America.
Key:
Coiffait & Sáiz 1969: 281
(species of Tierra del Fuego,
Chile
).
Distribution.
South America:
Chile
,
Argentina
.
0944.
Diochus
Erichson, 1839a: 300
(
Fig. 188
)
Type
species:
Diochus nanus
Erichson, 1839
Rhegmatocerus
Motschulsky, 1858d: 657
[synonymized by Gemminger & Harold 1 868: 608]
Type
species:
Rhegmatocerus punctipennis
Motschulsky, 1858
42 species are included in this genus from Latin America.
Characters/Description:
Lynch-Arribálzaga 1884: 171
(characters);
Blackwelder 1943: 394
(characters in key), 455 (characters);
Smetana 1982: 27
(characters);
Navarrete-Heredia
et al.
2002: 295
(characters in key);
Newton & Peck 2006: 152
(characters in key).
Key:
Irmler 2017a: 4
(Neotropical species groups of the genus), 57 (males of the Neotropical species), 59 (females of the Neotropical species).
Distribution.
West Indies:
Cuba
, Cayman Is.,
Jamaica
,
Dominican Republic
,
Puerto Rico
, British Virgin Isl.,
Guadeloupe
,
Dominica
,
Saint Vincent
&
the Grenadines
,
Barbados
,
Grenada
, Trinidad-Tobago.
Central America:
Mexico
,
Guatemala
,
Belize
,
Honduras
,
Nicaragua
,
Costa Rica
,
Panama
.
South America:
Colombia
,
Venezuela
,
Guyana
,
French Guiana
,
Suriname
,
Ecuador
,
Galapagos
Isl.,
Peru
,
Bolivia
,
Brazil
,
Paraguay
,
Argentina
.
Other regions: Nearctic, Palaearctic, Ethiopian, Madagascan,
Oriental
, Australian, Oceanic.