Tachyporini W.S. MacLeay, 1825

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 : 84-88

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.

Figures

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.