PROTEININAE Erichson, 1839b

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 : 18-19

Subfamily PROTEININAE Erichson, 1839b

Tribe Austrorhysini Newton & Thayer, 1995

0017. Megarthroides Steel, 1966: 298 ( Fig. 12 )

Type species: Megarthroides chilensis Steel, 1966

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

Characters/Description: Steel 1966: 292 (characters in key).

Distribution.

South America: Chile.

Figures

FIGURES 4–15. Habitus; Glypholomatinae (4–5), Microsilphinae (6), Omaliinae (7–11), Proteininae (12–15); 4, after Thayer 1997; 5, after Thayer 1997; 6, after Scheerpeltz 1972d; 7, after Thayer 2003; 8, after Thayer 2003; 9, after Thayer 2003; 10, after Thayer 2003; 11, after Scheerpeltz 1972d; 12, after Steel 1966; 13, after Cuccodoro 2011; 14, after Bierig 1940; 15, after Frank & Thomas 1984b; slightly modified. Scale bars: 1 mm.