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. text Zootaxa 2019 2019-06-21 4621 1 1 406 journal article 26396 10.11646/zootaxa.4621.1.1 a381190d-7f50-4a66-bc33-3a0417c9f89f 1175-5326 3257228 3D77F329-9BB8-4231-90E4-6A9E0250FCDF Tribe Tachyporini W.S. MacLeay, 1825 0283. Cilea Jacquelin du Val, 1856: 25 ( Fig. 32 ) Type species: Staphylinus silphoides Linnaeus, 1767 Astictus Thomson, 1858: 36 [synonymized by Thomson 1861: 153 ] Type species: Staphylinus silphoides Linnaeus, 1767 Leucoparyphus Kraatz, 1857a: 393 [synonymized by Thomson 1861: 153 ] Type species: Staphylinus silphoides Linnaeus, 1767 1 species is included in this genus from the West Indies and South America. Characters/Description: Blackwelder 1943: 509 (characters in key as Leucoparyphus ), 510 (characters as Leucoparyphus ); Campbell 1975a: 199 (characters); Navarrete-Heredia et al. 2002: 106 (characters in key). Key: Campbell 1975a: 177 (some species of America north of Mexico ); Campbell 1994: 140 (some species of the genus). Distribution. West Indies: Puerto Rico , US Virgin Isl., Guadeloupe , St. Vincent & Grenadines , Barbados , Grenada , Trinidad- Tobago . South America: Brazil . Other regions: Nearctic, Palaearctic, Ethiopian, Madagascan, Oriental . 0284. Cileoporus Campbell, 1994: 126 Type species: Tachinus politus Bernhauer, 1923 2 species are known from and are restricted to Central and South America. Characters/Description: Campbell 1994: 141 (characters in key); Navarrete-Heredia et al. 2002: 106 (characters in key). Key: Campbell 1994: 143 (species of the genus). Distribution. Central America: Guatemala , Costa Rica , Panama . South America: Colombia , Ecuador , Brazil , Argentina . 0285. Coproporus Kraatz, 1857a: 399 ( Fig. 33 ) Type species: Coproporus colchicus Kraatz, 1858 Erchomus Motschulsky, 1858b: 218 [synonymized by Ganglbauer 1895: 336 ] Type species: Erchomus sanguinolentus Motschulsky, 1858 80 species ( 1 in Dominican amber) are included in this genus from Latin America. Characters/Description: Lynch-Arribálzaga 1884: 108 (characters as Erchomus ); Blackwelder 1943: 509 (characters in key), 512 (characters); Campbell 1975a: 177 (characters); Campbell 1994: 140 (characters in key); Navarrete-Heredia et al. 2002: 106 (characters in key); Newton & Peck 2006: 134 (characters in key). Key: Blackwelder 1943: 512 (species of the West Indies); Campbell 1975a: 177 (some species of America north of Mexico ). Distribution. West Indies: Cuba , Cayman Is., Jamaica , Haiti , Dominican Republic , Puerto Rico , US Virgin Isl., Antigua & Barbuda , Montserrat , Guadeloupe , Dominica , St. Lucia , St. Vincent & Grenadines , Grenada , Trinidad- Tobago . Central America: Mexico , Guatemala , Belize , Honduras , El Salvador , Nicaragua , Costa Rica , Panama . South America: Colombia , Venezuela , Guyana , French Guiana , Galapagos Isl., Peru , Bolivia , Brazil , Paraguay , Uruguay , Chile ?, Argentina . Other regions: Nearctic, Palaearctic, Ethiopian, Madagascan, Oriental , Australian, Oceanic. 0286. Leucotachinus Coiffait & Sáiz, 1968: 411 Type species: Tachinus luteonitens Fairmaire & Germain, 1862 2 species are included in this genus from South America. Characters/Description: Coiffait & Sáiz 1968: 411 (characters); Campbell 1994: 141 (characters in key). Distribution. South America: Chile . Other regions: Australian. 0287. Sepedophilus Gistel, 1856: 267 , 386 ( Fig. 36 ) Type species: Staphylinus pubescens Paykull, 1790 38 species are included in this genus from Latin America. Characters/Description: Campbell 1994: 140 (characters in key); Campbell 1976b: 5 (characters); H.J. Kim & Ahn 2000a: 251 (characters); Navarrete-Heredia et al. 2002: 105 (characters in key). Key: Campbell 1976b: 9 (species group and species of the America north of Mexico ); Coiffait & Sáiz 1968: 407 (Chilean species as Conosomus ). Distribution. West Indies: Cuba , Jamaica , Haiti , Dominican Republic , Puerto Rico , Montserrat , Guadeloupe , St. Vincent & Grenadines , Trinidad-Tobago. Central America: Mexico , Guatemala , Nicaragua , Costa Rica , Panama . South America: Colombia , Venezuela , Peru , Bolivia , Brazil , Chile , Argentina . Other regions: Nearctic, Palaearctic, Ethiopian, Madagascan, Oriental , Australian, Oceanic. 0288. Tachinomorphus Kraatz, 1859a: 54 Type species: Tachinus fulvipes Erichson, 1840 Physetoporus Horn, 1877: 106 [synonymized by Bernhauer & Schubert 1916: 487 ] Type species: Coproporus grossulus LeConte, 1863 6 species are included in this genus from Central and South America. Characters/Description: Campbell 1973a: 1016 (characters); Campbell 1994: 140 (characters in key); Navarrete- Heredia et al. 2002: 106 (characters in key). Key: Campbell 1973a: 1018 (species of the genus). Distribution. Central America: Mexico , Guatemala , Costa Rica , Panama . South America: Ecuador , Peru . Other regions: Nearctic, Palaearctic, Ethiopian, Oriental , Australian. 0289. Tachinus Gravenhorst, 1802: 134 Type species: Staphylinus rufipes Linnaeus, 1758 Subgenera: Latotachinus Ullrich, 1975: 282 Type species: Tachinus punctiventris Sharp, 1888 Tachinoderus Motschulsky, 1858b: 217 [*] Type species: Tachinoderus longicornis Motschulsky, 1858 Paratachinus Blackwelder, 1952: 293 [synonymized by Ullrich 1975: 291 ] Type species: Paratachinus laticollis Cameron, 1932 Paracoproporus Bernhauer, 1917b: 42 [synonymized by Campbell 1993b: 41 ] Type species: Coproporus grandicollis Bernhauer, 1917 Tachinus Gravenhorst, 1802: 134 [*] Type species: Staphylinus rufipes Linnaeus, 1758 Conosoma Kraatz, 1857a: 431 [synonymized by Ganglbauer 1895: 354 ] Type species: Oxyporus bipustulatus Fabricius, 1792 Conosomus Motschulsky, 1858c: 54 [synonymized by Bernhauer & Schubert 1916: 465 ] Type species: Oxyporus bipustulatus Fabricius, 1792 Conurus Stephens, 1829a: 22 [synonymized by Kraatz 1857a: 431 ] Type species: Oxyporus bipustulatus Fabricius, 1792 Drymoporus Thomson, 1859: 46 [synonymized by Gemminger & Harold 1 868: 554] Type species: Tachinus elongatus Gyllenhal, 1810 Elliptoma Motschulsky, 1845: 41 [synonymized by Gemminger & Harold 1868: 554 ] Type species: Staphylinus marginellus Fabricius, 1781 Hamotraho Gozis, 1886: 13 [synonymized by Bernhauer & Schubert 1916: 479 ] Type species: Staphylinus subterraneus Linnaeus, 1758 Japanotachinus Ullrich, 1975: 288 [synonymized by Schülke 2015: 7] Type species: Tachinus nakanei Ullrich, 1975 Neocharidius Marié, 1928b: 86 [synonymized by Campbell 1 973b: 13] Type species: Tachinus manueli Sharp, 1874 Neocharis Marié, 1928a: 13 [synonymized by Scheerpeltz 1934: 1508 ] Type species: Tachinus manueli Sharp, 1874 Porodrymus Rey, 1882: 303 [synonymized by Duvivier 1883: 129 ] Type species: Tachinus discoideus Erichson, 1839 Pterygotachinus Scheerpeltz, 1976b: 160 [synonymized by Schülke 1997: 46] Type species: Pterygotachinus lacinipennis Scheerpeltz, 1976 8 species are included in this genus from Central and South America. Characters/Description: Lynch-Arribálzaga 1884: 105 (characters of Conosoma ); Coiffait & Sáiz 1968: 406 (characters of Conosomus ), 413 (characters); Blackwelder 1943: 509 (characters in key of Conosomus ), 524 (characters of Conosomus ); Campbell 1973b: 13 (characters); Campbell 1994: 141 (characters in key); H.J. Kim & Ahn 2000b: 125 (characters); Navarrete-Heredia et al. 2002: 106 (characters in key). Key: Coiffait & Sáiz 1968: 407 (Chilean species); Campbell 1973b: 15 , 19 (species group and species of the North and Central America); Campbell 1975b: 87 , 88 (some species of the genus); Campbell 1976a: 196 (species of the Mexico and Central America); Li 1995: 53 (subgenera). Distribution. Central America: Mexico , Guatemala , Honduras , Panama . South America: Chile . Other regions: Nearctic, Palaearctic, Ethiopian, Oriental . 0290. Tachyporus Gravenhorst, 1802: 124 ( Fig. 37 ) Type species: Staphylinus chrysomelinus Linnaeus, 1758 Subgenera: Palporus Campbell, 1979: 11 [*] Type species: Staphylinus nitidulus Fabricius, 1781 Tachyporus Gravenhorst, 1802: 124 [*] Type species: Staphylinus chrysomelinus Linnaeus, 1758 Trachyopus Rey, 1882: 237 [synonymized by Bernhauer & Schubert 1916: 472 ] Type species: Tachyporus tersus Erichson, 1839 9 species are included in this genus from Central America. Characters/Description: Campbell 1979: 5 (characters); Campbell 1994: 140 (characters in key); Navarrete- Heredia et al. 2002: 106 (characters in key). Key: Campbell 1979: 8 (subgenera and species of the New World). Distribution. Central America: Mexico , Guatemala , Costa Rica . Other regions: Nearctic, Palearctic, Ethiopian, Oriental , Australian. 0291. Termitoplus Silvestri, 1946b: 547 Type species: Termitoplus grandis Silvestri, 1946 Only one species is known from and is restricted to South America. Distribution. South America: Brazil , Argentina .