Scotocryptus

Peck, Stewart B., Gnaspini, Pedro & Newton, Alfred F., 2020, Updated catalog and generic keys of the Leiodidae (Insecta: Coleoptera) of the Neotropical region (“ Latin America ”: Mexico, the West Indies, and Central and South America), Zootaxa 4741 (1), pp. 1-114 : 87

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4741.1.1
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:2F901615-D948-4C68-81E9-75282F594BAF
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3797273
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treatment provided by	Plazi (2020-04-28 07:42:27, last updated by Guilherme 2025-02-03 18:44:38)
scientific name	Scotocryptus
status

Treatment

Key to Subgenera of Scotocryptus View in CoL (modified from Portevin, 1907 and Peck, 2003a)

1a Base of pronotum undulous, so that pronotal hind angles are prolonged behind; scutellum usually visible................................................................................................... subgenus Scotocryptus View in CoL

1b Base of pronotum nearly straight, so that hind angles are not prolonged behind; scutelllum usually not visible............................................................................................ subgenus Scotocryptopsis View in CoL

References

Peck, S. B. (2003 a) The eyeless inquiline genera Parabystus and Scotocryptus of Costa Rica and Panama: inhabitants of nests of stingless bees (Coleoptera: Leiodidae). Sociobiology, 42, 65 - 80.

Portevin, G. (1907) Clavicornes nouveaux du groupe des necrophages. Iie Memoire. Annales de la Societe Entomologique de France, 76, 67 - 82.