Astenina Hatch, 1957

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 : 254-255

Subtribe Astenina Hatch, 1957

0849. Astenus Dejean, 1833: 65 ( Fig. 152 )

Type species: Staphylinus angustatus Paykull, 1789

Subgenera:

Astenopleuritus Coiffait, 1982: 98

Type species: Astenus flavipennis Cameron, 1931

Astenus Dejean, 1833: 65 [*]

Type species: Staphylinus angustatus Paykull, 1789

Astenognathus Reitter, 1909: 150 [synonymized by Assing 2008a: 1241]

Type species: Sunius bimaculatus Erichson, 1840

Thoobia Gistel, 1856: 389 [synonymized by Blackwelder 1952: 388]

Type species: Staphylinus angustatus Paykull, 1789

Eurysunius Reitter, 1909: 149

Type species: Sunius paradoxus Eppelsheim, 1878

Mecognathus Wollaston, 1854: 595

Type species: Mecognathus chimaera Wollaston, 1854

Suniogaster Reitter, 1909: 151 [synonymized by Blackwelder 1943: 365]

Type species: Sunius ampliventris Reitter, 1900

Neognathus Sharp, 1874: 69

Type species: Neognathus angulatus Sharp, 1874

46 species are included in this genus from Latin America.

Characters/Description: Stephens 1833a: 275 (characters); Blackwelder 1943: 231 (characters in key), 365 (characters); Blackwelder 1939: 101 (characters in key); Navarrete-Heredia et al. 2002: 267 (characters in key); Newton & Peck 2006: 148 (characters in key).

Key: Blackwelder 1943: 366 (species of the West Indies).

Distribution.

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

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

South America: Colombia, Venezuela, Galapagos Isl., Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina.

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

Figures

FIGURES 148–159. Habitus; Pseudopsinae (148–150); Paederinae (151–159); 148, after Herman 1975; 149, Ecuador: province of Napo (CNC); 150, after Asenjo & Ribeiro-Costa 2010; 151, after Bierig 1933; 152, after Sharp 1886; 153, after Assing 2012a; 154, after Jiménez-Sánchez & Galián 2013; 155, after Bierig 1933; 156, after Bruch 1928; 157, after Assing 2012b; 158, after Borgmeier 1936; 159, after Sharp 1886; slightly modified. Scale bars: 1 mm.