Autaliini Thomson, 1859

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 : 114-115

Tribe Autaliini Thomson, 1859

0370. Attonia Wasmann, 1925b: 52

Type species: Attonia hirta Wasmann, 1925

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

Distribution.

South America: Brazil.

0371. Autalia Leach in Samouelle, 1819: 177

Type species: Staphylinus impressus Olivier, 1795

Hydatobia Gistel, 1834: 10 [synonymized by Bousquet & Bouchard 2017: 120]

Type species: Staphylinus impressus Olivier, 1795

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

Characters/Description: Hoebeke & Ashe 1994: 193 (characters); Ashe 2002b: 130 (characters in key); J.S. Park & Ahn 2005: 1 (characters).

Key: Hoebeke & Ashe 1994: 207 (Neotropical species).

Distribution.

Central America: Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica.

South America: Brazil.

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

0372. Ophioglossa Fauvel, 1866b: 259 ( Fig. 67 )

Type species: Ophioglossa araucana Fauvel, 1866

Antrogastra Bernhauer, 1912d: 70 [synonymized by Blackwelder 1952: 57]

Type species: Ophioglossa bruchiana Bernhauer, 1912

Ophioglossa Fauvel, 1866a: 10 [ Newton & Thayer 2003]

Type species: Ophioglossa araucana Fauvel, 1866

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

Characters/Description: Fenyes 1920: 134 (characters), 135 (characters as subgenera Ophioglossa , Antrogastra ); Coiffait & Sáiz 1967: 65 (characters in key), 97 (characters); Pace 1986a: 419 (characters in key); Ashe 2002b: 129 (characters in key).

Key: Fenyes 1920: 135 (as subgenera); Pace 1987b: 473 (some species of Chile).

Distribution.

Central America: Mexico, Nicaragua.

South America: Brazil, Paraguay, Chile, Argentina.

Other regions: Oceanic.

0373. Rhopalogastrum Bernhauer, 1912d: 68

Type species: Rhopalogastrum claviventre Bernhauer, 1912

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

Distribution.

South America: Argentina.

Figures

FIGURES 64–75. Habitus; Aleocharinae (64–75); 64, after Pace 2015a; 65, after Bortoluzzi et al. 2016; 66, after Kanao et al. 2012; 67, after Pace 1999c; 68, Peru: department of Madre de Dios (CEMT); 69, after Pace, 2011b; 70, after Bruch 1933a; 71, after Pace 2015e; 72, Chile: region of Coquimbo (MUSM); 73, after Pace 1996b; 74, after Pace 1987b; 75, after Kistner 2006; slightly modified. Scale bars: 1 mm.