Cryptobiina Casey, 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 : 274-276

Subtribe Cryptobiina Casey, 1905

0911. Aderobium Casey, 1905: 23

Type species: Cryptobium angustifrons Sharp, 1876

Only one species is known from and is restricted to South America.

Characters/Description: Casey 1905: 28 (characters); Blackwelder 1939: 95 (characters in key).

Distribution.

South America: Brazil.

0912. Biocrypta Casey, 1905: 51

Type species: Cryptobium prospiciens LeConte in Schwarz, 1878

21 species are included in this genus from Latin America.

Characters/Description: Casey 1905: 26 (characters in key); Blackwelder 1939: 97 (characters in key); Blackwelder 1943: 230 (characters in key), 335 (characters); Navarrete-Heredia et al. 2002: 266 (characters in key).

Key: Blackwelder 1943: 336 (species of the West Indies).

Distribution.

West Indies: Cuba, Jamaica, Haiti, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Antigua & Barbuda, Montserrat, Guadeloupe, Grenada, Trinidad-Tobago.

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

South America: Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Brazil, Argentina.

Other regions: Nearctic.

0913. Homaeotarsus Hochhuth, 1851: 34

Type species: Homaeotarsus chaudoirii Hochhuth, 1851

Spirosoma Motschulsky, 1858b: 206 [synonymized by Blackwelder 1939: 113]

Type species: Spirosoma fulvescens Motschulsky, 1858

Subgenera:

Eucryptina Casey, 1905: 28 [*]

Type species: Cryptobium opacum Sharp, 1876

Gastrolobium Casey, 1905: 31 [*]

Type species: Lathrobium bicolor Gravenhorst, 1802

Hesperobium Casey, 1886a: 33

Type species: Cryptobium tumidum LeConte in Schwarz, 1878

Homaeotarsus Hochhuth, 1851: 34

Type species: Homaeotarsus chaudoirii Hochhuth, 1851

Homoeobium Blackwelder, 1939: 96

Type species: Homaeotarsus bakerianus Blackwelder, 1939

Nemoeotus Blackwelder, 1939: 96

Type species: Cryptobium rubiginosum Bernhauer, 1912

67 species are included in this genus from Latin America.

Characters/Description: Casey 1905: 24 (characters in key as Homaeotarsus and Eucryptina ), 28 (characters as Homaeotarsus and Eucryptina ); Blackwelder 1939: 95 (characters in key); Blackwelder 1943: 230 (characters in key), 325 (characters); Navarrete-Heredia et al. 2002: 266 (characters in key); Newton & Peck 2006: 148 (characters in key).

Key: Blackwelder 1939: 96 (subgenera); Blackwelder 1943: 326 (species of the West Indies).

Distribution.

West Indies: Cuba, Cayman Is., Jamaica, Haiti, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, St. Vincent & Grenadines, Grenada, Trinidad-Tobago.

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

South America: Colombia, Venezuela, Galapagos Isl., Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina.

Other regions: Nearctic, Palaearctic, Madagascan, Oriental.

0914. Ochthephilum Stephens, 1829a: 24 ( Fig. 164 )

Type species: Paederus fracticornis Paykull, 1800

Subgenera:

Ababactus Sharp, 1885: 533 [*]

Type species: Ababactus depressus Sharp, 1886

Astenobium Bernhauer, 1911a: 411 [*]

Type species: Cryptobium excellens Bernhauer, 1911

Cryptobiella Casey, 1905: 29 [*]

Type species: Cryptobiella colonica Casey, 1905

Neobactus Blackwelder, 1939: 96

Type species: Cryptobium nunenmacheri Blackwelder, 1939

Ochthephilum Stephens, 1829a: 24

Type species: Paederus fracticornis Paykull, 1800

Cryptobium Mannerheim, 1830: 38 [synonymized by Blackwelder 1943: 331]

Type species: Paederus fracticornis Paykull, 1800

Epimachus Gistel, 1834: 8 [synonymized by Blackwelder 1952: 150]

Type species: Paederus fracticornis Paykull, 1800

113 species are included in this genus from Latin America.

Characters/Description: Casey 1905: 29 (characters as Cryptobiella ); Lynch-Arribálzaga 1884: 202 (characters as Cryptobium ); Blackwelder 1939: 96 (characters in key as Cryptobium ); Blackwelder 1943: 230 (characters in key), 331 (characters); Navarrete-Heredia et al. 2002: 266 (characters in key).

Key: Lynch-Arribálzaga 1884: 205 (species of Buenos Aires province, Argentina); Blackwelder 1943: 332 (species of the West Indies).

Distribution.

West Indies: Cuba, Guadeloupe, Trinidad-Tobago.

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

South America: Colombia, Venezuela, French Guiana, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, Chile, Argentina.

Other regions: Nearctic, Palaearctic, Ethiopian, Madagascan, Oriental, Australian, Oceanic.

0915. Opithes Blackwelder, 1952: 277

Type species: Ophites versatilis Erichson, 1840

Ophites Erichson, 1839a: 29 [synonymized by Blackwelder 1952: 277]

Type species: Ophites versatilis Erichson, 1840

8 species are known from and are restricted to Latin America.

Characters/Description: Lynch-Arribálzaga 1884: 228 (characters); Erichson 1840: 627 (characters); Blackwelder 1939: 95 (characters in key as Ophites ); Blackwelder 1943: 230 (characters in key as Ophites ), 343 (characters as Ophites ); Drugmand 2000: 17 (characters); Navarrete-Heredia et al. 2002: 266 (characters in key). Key: Drugmand 2000: 21 (species of the genus). Distribution. West Indies: Trinidad-Tobago. Central America: Mexico. South America: Colombia, Brazil, Argentina.

0916. Pycnocrypta Casey, 1905: 25 ( Fig. 170 )

Type species: Cryptobium maxilosum Guérin-Méneville, 1844

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

Characters/Description: Casey 1905: 28 (characters); Bierig 1933: 476 (characters); Blackwelder 1939: 97 (characters in key); Navarrete-Heredia et al. 2002: 266 (characters in key).

Distribution.

Central America: Mexico, Panama.

South America: Colombia, Brazil.

0917. Scopaeodes Sharp, 1876a: 208

Type species: Scopaeodes gracilis Sharp, 1876

2 species are known from and are restricted to South America.

Characters/Description: Casey 1905: 55 (characters in key); Blackwelder 1939: 95 (characters in key). Distribution.

South America: Brazil.

Figures

FIGURES 160–171. Habitus; Paederinae (160–171); 160, after Assing 2013; 161, after Bierig 1933; 162, after Coiffait & Sáiz 1968; 163, after Asenjo 2011; 164, after Fauvel 1901; 165, after Herman 2013; 166, after Sharp 1886; 167, after Vieira et al. 2014; 168, after Fauvel 1901; 169, after Campbell & Peck 1989; 170, after Sharp 1885; 171, after Bruch 1930a; slightly modified. Scale bars: 1 mm.