Platyprosopini Lynch-Arribálzaga, 1884

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 : 284

Tribe Platyprosopini Lynch-Arribálzaga, 1884

0945. Platyprosopus Mannerheim, 1830: 8 , 36 ( Fig. 219 )

Type species: Platyprosopus elongatus Mannerheim, 1830

Megaprosopoda Strand, 1935: 297 [synonymized by Bordoni 2015: 57]

Type species: Platyprosopus beduinus Nordmann, 1837

Megaprosopus Reitter, 1908: 104 [synonymized by Strand 1935: 297]

Type species: Platyprosopus beduinus Nordmann, 1837

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

Characters/Description: Lynch-Arribálzaga 1884: 166 (characters); Smetana 1982: 22 (characters); Navarrete- Heredia et al. 2002: 296 (characters in key).

Key: Irmler 1977: 58 (Neotropical species of the genus).

Distribution.

Central America: Mexico.

South America: Peru, Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina.

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

Figures

FIGURES 208–219. Habitus; Staphylininae (208–219); 208, Chile: region Metropolitana de Santiago (MUSM); 209, after Navarrete-Heredia 2003; 210, after Asenjo & Ribeiro-Costa 2009; 211, Peru: department of Cuzco (MUSM); 212, Argentina: province of Jujuy (MUSM); 213, Peru: department of Madre de Dios (MUSM); 214, Peru: department of Cuzco (MUSM); 215, Peru: department of Madre de Dios (MUSM); 216, Peru: department of Lima (MUSM); 217, Peru: department of Cuzco (MUSM); 218, Brazil: state of Paraná (MUSM); 219, after Smetana 1982; slightly modified. Scale bars: 1 mm.