Clavigerodina L.W. Schaufuss, 1882

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 : 23-24

Subtribe Clavigerodina L.W. Schaufuss, 1882

0032. Fustiger LeConte, 1866: 109 ( Fig. 22 )

Type species: Articerus brasiliensis Westwood, 1856

Afrofustiger Jeannel, 1952b: 18 [synonymized by Besuchet 1977: 261]

Type species: Afrofustiger pleuralis Jeannel, 1952

Commatocerus Raffray, 1882: 1 [synonymized by Besuchet 1977: 261]

Type species: Commatocerus elegantulus Raffray, 1882

Corynotellus Jeannel, 1960a: 175 [synonymized by Coulon 1982: 50]

Type species: Corynotellus tubifer Jeannel, 1960

Pseudfustiger Reitter, 1884: 168 [synonymized by Besuchet 1986: 263]

Type species: Articerus stricticornis Reitter, 1883

22 species are included in this genus from Latin America.

Characters/Description: L.W. Schaufuss 1882b: 197 (characters); Reitter 1884: 168 (characters in key as Pseudfustiger and Fustiger ), 168 (characters in key as Commatocerus ); Raffray 1905: 446 (characters in key as Commatocerus ), 447 (characters in key), 447 (characters in key as Pseudfustiger ); Raffray 1908a: 418 (characters in key), 419 (characters in key as Pseudfustiger ), 429 (characters), 433 (characters as Pseudfustiger ); O. Park 1942: 353 (characters in key), 353 (characters in key as Pseudfustiger ); O. Park 1944: 242 (characters in key); Bierig 1945: 4 (characters), 6 (characters in key); Besuchet 1986: 263 (characters); Chandler 2002: 49 (characters in key).

Key: L.W. Schaufuss 1882b: 198 (some South American species); O. Park 1944: 251 (Mexican species); O. Park et al. 1976: 72 (species of the West Indies as Pseudfustiger ), 73 (species of the West Indies).

Distribution.

West Indies: Cuba, Jamaica, Haiti, US Virgin Isl., St. Vincent & Grenadines.

Central America: Mexico, Honduras, Costa Rica.

South America: Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, Argentina.

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

0033. Neofustiger Bruch, 1929: 157 ( Fig. 27 )

Type species: Neofustiger cochlearis Bruch, 1929

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

Distribution.

South America: Argentina.

Figures

FIGURES 16–27. Habitus; Micropeplinae (16–18), Neophoninae (19), Pselaphinae (20–27); 16, after Campbell 1968; 17, after Campbell 1973c; 18, after Tronquet & Degallier 2010; 19 Chile: region of Los Lagos (VMDC); 20, after Reitter 1883b; 21, after Reitter 1889; 22, after Bryant 1915; 23, after Raffray 1887; 24, after Asenjo 2016; 25, after Asenjo et al. 2017; 26, after O. Park 1952b; 27, after Bruch 1929; slightly modified. Scale bars: 1 mm.