Falagriini Mulsant & Rey, 1873b

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 : 128-132

Tribe Falagriini Mulsant & Rey, 1873b

0425. Akrincastiba Pace, 2001b: 421

Type species: Akrincastiba moreti Pace, 2001

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

Distribution.

South America: Ecuador.

0426. Aleodorus Say, 1833: 60 ( Fig. 43 )

Type species: Aleochara bilobata Say, 1830

Aleodorus Say, 1839: 157 [synonymized by Blackwelder 1952: 45]

Chitalia Sharp, 1883: 235 [synonymized by Bernhauer & Scheerpeltz 1926: 571]

Type species: Chitalia crenata Sharp, 1883

14 species are included in this genus from Central and South America.

Characters/Description: Fenyes 1920: 148 (characters as Chitalia ); Ashe 2002b: 126 (characters in key); Delgado & Santiago-Jiménez 2009: 67 (characters).

Key: Pace 1990a: 162 (species of the Neotropical region).

Distribution.

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

South America: Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, Argentina.

Other regions: Nearctic, Oriental.

0427. Anaulacaspis Ganglbauer, 1895: 256

Type species: Aleochara nigra Gravenhorst, 1802

Euphorbagria Assing, 1997a: 64 [synonymized by Assing 1997a: 65]

Type species: Falagria rotundicollis Lindberg, 1953

Falagriola Reitter, 1909: 74 [synonymized by Blackwelder 1952: 164]

Type species: Aleochara nigra Gravenhorst, 1802

Melagria Casey, 1906: 230 [synonymized by Blackwelder 1952: 237]

Type species: Aleochara nigra Gravenhorst, 1802

4 species are included in this genus from South America.

Characters/Description: Fenyes 1920: 153 (characters in key), 154 (characters).

Distribution.

South America: Colombia, Venezuela, Brazil, Chile, Argentina.

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

0428. Borboropora Kraatz in Kraatz & Fuss, 1862: 405

Type species: Borboropora kraatzii Fuss, 1862

Aneurota Casey, 1893: 347 [synonymized by Bernhauer & Scheerpeltz 1 926: 573]

Type species: Aneurota sulcifrons Casey, 1893

Orthagria Casey, 1906: 260 [synonymized by Bernhauer & Scheerpeltz 1926: 573]

Type species: Falagria quadriceps LeConte, 1866

Pseudoscopaeus Weise in Reitter, 1877: 8 [synonymized by Bernhauer & Scheerpeltz 1 926: 573]

Type species: Pseudoscopaeus reitteri Weise, 1877

2 species are included in this genus from Central America.

Characters/Description: Fenyes 1920: 146 (characters); Delgado & Santiago-Jiménez 2009: 67 (characters).

Key: Delgado & Santiago-Jiménez 2009: 66 (species of the New World).

Distribution.

Central America: Mexico.

Other regions: Nearctic, Palaearctic, Ethiopian, Oriental.

0429. Bryobiota Casey, 1893: 367

Type species: Phytosus bicolor Casey, 1885

1 species is included in this genus from Central America.

Characters/Description: Fenyes 1920: 130 (characters); Ahn & Ashe 1995: 143 (characters), 151 (characters in key); Ashe 2002b: 129 (characters in key).

Key: Ahn & Ashe 1995: 145 (species of the genus).

Distribution.

Central America: Mexico.

Other regions: Nearctic.

0430. Drepanopora Bernhauer, 1908: 345

Type species: Drepanopora borboroporoides Bernhauer, 1908

5 species are known from and are restricted to South America.

Characters/Description: Fenyes 1920: 150 (characters).

Distribution.

South America: Brazil, Chile, Argentina. 0431. Falagria Leach in Samouelle, 1819: 177

Type species: Staphylinus sulcatus Paykull, 1789

Coenobiotes Gistel, 1856: 387 [synonymized by Blackwelder 1952: 102]

Type species: Staphylinus sulcatus Paykull, 1789

20 species are included in this genus from Latin America.

Characters/Description: Lynch-Arribálzaga 1884: 29 (characters); Fenyes 1920: 152 (characters); Ashe 2002b: 126 (characters in key).

Key: Fenyes 1920: 136 (subgenera); Pace 2008a: 275 (species of Ecuador and Peru).

Distribution.

West Indies: Jamaica, Grenada.

Central America: Mexico, Guatemala.

South America: Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina.

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

0432. Falagrioma Casey, 1906: 230

Type species: Falagria thoracica Stephens, 1832

1 species is included in this genus from South America.

Distribution.

South America: Venezuela, Brazil.

Other regions: Nearctic, Palaearctic, Ethiopian, Oriental.

0433. Guajira Bierig, 1938b: 146

Type species: Guajira cubana Bierig, 1938

Only one species is known from and is restricted to the West Indies.

Distribution.

West Indies: Cuba.

0434. Leptagria Casey, 1906: 249

Type species: Leptagria perexilis Casey, 1906

7 species are included in this genus from Latin America.

Distribution.

West Indies: Jamaica, Dominican Republic, US Virgin Isl., British Virgin Isl., St. Lucia, St. Vincent & Grenadines, Grenada.

Central America: Mexico, Guatemala.

South America: Ecuador, Bolivia, Brazil.

Other regions: Nearctic, Madagascan, Oriental.

0435. Lissagria Casey, 1906: 252

Type species: Falagria laeviuscula LeConte, 1866

Omoschema Notman, 1920: 731 [synonymized by Hoebeke 1985: 930]

Type species: Omoschema laticeps Notman, 1920

3 species are included in this genus from Central and South America.

Characters/Description: Fenyes 1920: 153 (characters in key), 155 (characters).

Key: Eldredge 2012a: 227 (species of the genus).

Distribution.

Central America: Mexico.

South America: Venezuela, Ecuador.

Other regions: Nearctic.

0436. Myrmecocephalus W.J. MacLeay, 1871: 134

Type species: Myrmecocephalus cingulatus W.J. MacLeay, 1871

Lorinota Casey, 1906: 238 [synonymized by Blackwelder 1952: 227]

Type species: Falagria cingulata LeConte, 1866

Stenagria Sharp, 1883: 237 [synonymized by Blackwelder 1952: 358]

Type species: Stenagria gracilipes Sharp, 1883

Stilicioides Broun, 1880: 95 [synonymized by Blackwelder 1952: 362]

Type species: Stilicioides micans Broun, 1880

12 species are included in this genus from Latin America.

Characters/Description: Fenyes 1920: 158 (characters as Lorinota ), 159 (characters as Stenagria ); Ashe 2002b: 125 (characters in key); Newton & Peck 2006: 135 (characters in key).

Distribution.

West Indies: St. Vincent & Grenadines, Grenada.

Central America: Mexico, Guatemala, Panama.

South America: French Guiana, Ecuador, Galapagos Isl., Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Argentina.

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

0437. Myrmecopora Saulcy, 1865: 429

Type species: Myrmecopora publicana Saulcy, 1865

Subgenera:

Amechanopora Pace, 2004a: 196

Type species: Myrmecopora vietnamensis Pace, 2004

Anatolagria Assing, 2004a: 48

Type species: Myrmecopora effeminata Assing, 2004

Euphorbiusa Assing, 1997b: 132

Type species: Myrmecopora gravata Peyerimhoff, 1945

Iliusa Mulsant & Rey, 1873b: 6

Type species: Tachyusa fugax Erichson, 1839

Iliusa Mulsant & Rey, 1874c: 38 [ Newton & Thayer 2003]

Ilyusa Mulsant & Rey, 1875c: 419 [ Newton & Thayer 2003]

Ilyusa Mulsant & Rey, 1875a: 445 [ Newton & Thayer 2003]

Lamproxenusa Assing, 1997c: 339

Type species: Tachyusa rufescens Sharp, 1874

Myrmecopora Saulcy, 1865: 429

Type species: Myrmecopora publicana Saulcy, 1865

Paraxenusa Assing, 1997b: 101

Type species: Tachyusa laesa Erichson, 1839

Xenusa Mulsant & Rey, 1873b: 6 [*]

Type species: Tachyusa uvida Erichson, 1840

Xenusa Mulsant & Rey, 1874c: 38 [ Newton & Thayer 2003]

Xenusa Mulsant & Rey, 1875a: 436 [ Newton & Thayer 2003]

Xenusa Mulsant & Rey, 1875c: 410 [ Newton & Thayer 2003]

1 species is included in this genus from South America.

Characters/Description: Fenyes 1920: 165 (characters), 166 (characters of subgenus Iliusa ), 167 (characters subgenus Xenusa ); Ahn & Ashe 1995: 151 (characters in key).

Key: Fenyes 1920: 166 (subgenera).

Distribution.

South America: Chile.

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

0438. Tropidera Bernhauer, 1908: 349

Type species: Tropidera jenseni Bernhauer, 1908

Mesaraeus Fenyes, 1921a: 21 [synonymized by Blackwelder 1952: 238]

Type species: Mesaraeus laevigatus Fenyes, 1921

6 species are known from and are restricted to South America.

Characters/Description: Fenyes 1920: 292 (characters).

Distribution.

South America: French Guiana, Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina.

Figures

FIGURES 40–51. Habitus; Habrocerinae (40), Aleocharinae (41–51); 40, after Solier 1849; 41, Brazil: state of Paraná (MUSM); 42, Chile: region of Antofagasta (MUSM); 43, after Pace 2015e; 44, after Ashe 2002a; 45, after Pace 2014a; 46, after Pace 2012; 47, after Y.H. Kim & Ahn 2015; 48, after Pace 2014c; 49, Chile: region of Araucanía (MUSM); 50, after Irmler 2011; 51, after Caron & Ribeiro-Costa 2008; slightly modified. Scale bars: 1 mm.