Blediini Ádám, 2001

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 : 221-222

Tribe Blediini Ádám, 2001

0762. Bledius Leach in Samouelle, 1819: 174 ( Figs. 120–121 )

Type species: Staphylinus armatus Panzer, 1799

Microbledius Herman, 1972a: 118 [synonymized by Herman 1986: 295]

Type species: Microbledius playanus Herman, 1972

Subgenera:

Astycops Thomson, 1859: 43

Type species: Oxytelus talpa Gyllenhal, 1810

Bargus Schiødte, 1866: 145 , 148

Type species: Oxytelus pallipes Gravenhorst, 1806

Belidus Mulsant & Rey, 1878a: 657

Type species: Bledius angustus Mulsant & Rey, 1861

Bledius Leach in Samouelle, 1819: 174

Type species: Staphylinus armatus Panzer, 1799

Dicarenus Gistel, 1834: 9

Type species: Staphylinus arenarius Paykull, 1800

Cotysops Tottenham, 1939a: 225 [synonymized by Herman 1970a: 375]

Type species: Staphylinus arenarius Paykull, 1800

Elbidus Mulsant & Rey, 1878a: 572 [synonymized by Herman 1970a: 375]

Type species: Oxytelus bicornis Germar, 1823

Neobledius M. Abdullah & Qadri, 1968: 394 [synonymized by Herman 1986: 295]

Type species: Neobledius karachiensis Abdullah & Qadri, 1968

Euceratobledius Znojko, 1929: 203

Type species: Oxytelus furcatus Olivier, 1811

Hesperophilus Stephens, 1829a: 24

Type species: Staphylinus fracticornis Paykull, 1790

Blediodes Mulsant & Rey, 1878a: 576 [synonymized by Herman 1970a: 375]

Type species: Staphylinus fracticornis Paykull, 1790

Tadunus Schiødte, 1866: 144 , 147 [synonymized by Gemminger & Harold 1868: 643]

Type species: Staphylinus fracticornis Paykull, 1790

Psamathobledius Herman, 1972a: 136

Type species: Bledius punctatissimus LeConte, 1877

Pucerus Mulsant & Rey, 1878a: 654

Type species: Bledius verres Erichson, 1840

Teratobledius Ádám, 2001: 218

Type species: Bledius tibialis Heer, 1839

71 species are included in this genus from Latin America. It is one of the super-large genera of the subfamily, its taxonomy is resolved only to species groups, keys to species level mostly missing [György Makranczy, personal communication].

Characters/Description: Lynch-Arribálzaga 1884: 351 (characters); Blackwelder 1943: 57 (characters in key), 112 (characters); Coiffait & Sáiz 1968: 415 (characters in key), 423 (characters); Herman 1970a: 361 (characters in key), 375 (characters); Herman 1972a: 153 (characters); Sáiz 1973c: 229 (characters); Navarrete-Heredia et al. 2002: 230 (characters in key); Makranczy 2006: 103 (characters in key); Newton & Peck 2006: 145 (characters in key).

Key: Lynch-Arribálzaga 1884: 353 (species of Buenos Aires province, Argentina); Bernhauer 1927b: 232 (species of the Argentina); Blackwelder 1943: 113 (species of the West Indies); Coiffait & Sáiz 1968: 424 (Chilean species); Herman 1972a: 154 (species groups of the genus); Sáiz 1973c: 229 (Chilean species); Herman 1976: 77 (species groups of the genus); Herman 1983: 8 (species groups of the genus); Herman 1986: 107 (species groups); Newton & Peck 2006: 145 (species of the Galapagos Isl.); Caron & Ribeiro-Costa 2007: 453 (seashore of southern Brazil); Castro et al. 2016: 146 (Brazilian seashore species).

Distribution.

West Indies: Bahamas, Cuba, Cayman Is., Jamaica, Haiti, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, US Virgin Isl., Antigua & Barbuda, Montserrat, Guadeloupe, Dominica, Grenada, Trinidad-Tobago.

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

South America: Colombia, Venezuela, French Guiana, Ecuador, Galapagos Isl., Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, Uruguay, Chile, Argentina.

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

Figures

FIGURES 112–123. Habitus; Osoriinae (112–118); Oxytelinae (119–123); 112, after Sharp 1887a; 113, after Bruch 1942; 114, after Sharp 1887a; 115, after Irmler 2003c; 116, after Sharp 1887a; 117, after Irmler 2003a; 118, after Sharp 1887a; 119, after Sharp 1887a; 120, after Caron & Ribeiro-Costa 2007; 121, after Caron & Ribeiro-Costa 2007; 122, after Sharp 1887a; 123, after Makranczy 2014; slightly modified. Scale bars: 1 mm.