Paederina Fleming, 1821

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 : 278-279

Subtribe Paederina Fleming, 1821

0923. Eupaederus Scheerpeltz, 1957a: 269

Type species: Paederus cyanipennis Guérin-Méneville, 1830

Only a single species is included in this genus from South America.

Distribution.

South America: Peru, Chile.

Other regions: Oriental.

0924. Paederus Fabricius, 1775: 268 ( Fig. 167 )

Type species: Staphylinus riparius Linnaeus, 1758

Subgenera:

Anomalopaederus Scheerpeltz, 1966a: 400

Type species: Paederus lacordairei Perroud, 1864

Eopaederus Scheerpeltz, 1957b: 458

Type species: Paederus caligatus Erichson, 1840

Gnathopaederus Chapin, 1927: 75

Type species: Gnathopaederus szechuanus Chapin, 1927

Harpopaederus Scheerpeltz, 1957b: 459

Type species: Paederus schoenherri Czwalina, 1889

Oedopaederus Scheerpeltz, 1957b: 466 [synonymized by Assing 2015b: 184]

Type species: Paederus chinensis Bernhauer, 1931

Heteropaederus Scheerpeltz, 1957b: 460 [*]

Type species: Paederus fuscipes Curtis, 1826

Neopaederus Blackwelder, 1939: 97 [*]

Type species: Paederus morio Mannerheim, 1830

Nepalopaederus Scheerpeltz, 1976b: 111

Type species: Paederus nepalensis Scheerpeltz, 1976

Oreinopaederus Scheerpeltz, 1976b: 112

Type species: Paederus vastus Scheerpeltz, 1976

Paederognathus Wendeler, 1928: 37 [*]

Type species: Paederus turrialbanus Wendeler, 1927

Gnathopaederus Wendeler, 1927: 1 [synonymized by Wendeler 1928: 37]

Type species: Paederus turrialbanus Wendeler, 1927

Paederognathus Wendeler, 1931: 43 [synonymized by Blackwelder 1952: 286]

Type species: Paederus turrialbanus Wendeler, 1927

Paederus Fabricius, 1775: 268 [*]

Type species: Staphylinus riparius Linnaeus, 1758

Geopaederus Gistel, 1848 : x [synonymized by Blackwelder 1952: 169]

Type species: Staphylinus riparius Linnaeus, 1758

Leucopaederus Casey, 1905: 67 [synonymized by Blackwelder 1939: 111]

Type species: Paederus ustus LeConte, 1858

Paederillus Casey, 1905: 62 [synonymized by Blackwelder 1939: 111]

Type species: Paederus littorarius Gravenhorst, 1806

Poederomorphus Gautier des Cottes, 1862: 75

Type species: Poederomorphus pedoncularius Gautier des Cottes, 1862

Dioncopaederus Scheerpeltz, 1957b: 464 [synonymized by Herman 2003: 5]

Type species: Paederus littoralis Gravenhorst, 1802

Pseudopaederus Bernhauer, 1915a: 137

Type species: Paederus nigerrimus Bernhauer, 1915

88 species are included in this genus from Latin America.

Characters/Description: Lynch-Arribálzaga 1884: 288 (characters); Blackwelder 1939: 97 (characters in key); Blackwelder, 1943: 230 (characters in key), 321 (characters); Navarrete-Heredia et al. 2002: 266 (characters in key).

Key: Lynch-Arribálzaga 1884: 290 (species of Buenos Aires province, Argentina); Blackwelder 1943: 322 (species of the West Indies); Scheerpeltz 1965a: 214 (Venezuelan species); Sanderson 1967: 59 (species of the Greater Antillean); Vieira et al. 2014: 246 (Brazilian species of medical importance).

Distribution.

West Indies: Cuba, Jamaica, Haiti, Martinique, St. Vincent & Grenadines, Trinidad-Tobago.

Central America: Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama.

South America: Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, French Guiana, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, Argentina.

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

Figures

FIGURES 160–171. Habitus; Paederinae (160–171); 160, after Assing 2013; 161, after Bierig 1933; 162, after Coiffait & Sáiz 1968; 163, after Asenjo 2011; 164, after Fauvel 1901; 165, after Herman 2013; 166, after Sharp 1886; 167, after Vieira et al. 2014; 168, after Fauvel 1901; 169, after Campbell & Peck 1989; 170, after Sharp 1885; 171, after Bruch 1930a; slightly modified. Scale bars: 1 mm.