Subfamily NEOPHONINAE Fauvel, 1905

0024. Neophonus Fauvel, 1905: 99 (Fig. 19)

Type species: Neophonus bruchi Fauvel, 1905

Only one species is known from and is restricted to South America. Characters/Description: Thayer 1987: 395 (characters); Newton & Thayer 1995: 290 (characters in key as Distribution. South America: Chile, Argentina. Subfamily PSELAPHINAE Latreille, 1802Supertribe Batrisitae Reitter, 1882b Tribe Batrisini Reitter, 1882b Subtribe Batrisina Reitter, 1882b 0025. Arthmius LeConte, 1849: 91 Type species: Arthmius globicollis LeConte, 1849101 species are included in this genus from Central and South America.Characters/Description: Raffray 1894: 231 (characters in key); Raffray 1898a: 441 (characters), 443 (characters in key), 462 (characters); Raffray 1904a: 4 (characters in key); Raffray 1908a: 134 (characters in key), 149 (characters); O. Park 1942: 215 (characters in key), 215 (characters); O. Park 1944: 248, 249 (characters in key); Becker & Sanderson 1953a: 404 (characters in key); Becker & Sanderson 1953b: 454 (characters); Jeannel 1962b: 384 (characters); Chandler 2002: 52 (characters in key). Key: Schaufuss 1887: 140 (some species of the genus as Batrisus); Reitter 1888: 246 (Brazilian species); Raffray 1898a: 463 (species of the genus); Raffray 1904a: 16 (species group); Fletcher 1930: 97 (some Neotropical species); O. Park 1942: 217–219, 222–230, 233–236 (Neotropical group of species and species); O. Park 1943: 195 (Mexican species); O. Park 1944: 251 (Mexican species); Becker & Sanderson 1953b: 455 (species of Honduras). Distribution. Central America: Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Panama. South America: Colombia, Venezuela, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, Chile, Argentina. Other regions: Nearctic. Distribution. Central America: Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Panama. South America: Colombia, Venezuela, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, Chile, Argentina. Other regions: Nearctic. 0026. Batoctenus Sharp, 1887b: 18 Type species: Batoctenus puncticollis Sharp, 18875 species are known in this genus and are restricted to Central and South America.Characters/Description: Raffray 1904a: 7 (characters in key); Raffray, 1908a: 136 (characters in key), 165 (characters); O. Park 1942: 215 (characters in key), 247 (charcters), 249 (characters).Key: O. Park 1942: 250 (species of the genus).Distribution. Central America: Panama. South America: Bolivia, Brazil. 0027. Iteticus Raffray, 1904a: 19 Type species: Batrisus princeps Reitter, 188310 species are known from and are restricted to Central and South America. Characters/Description: Raffray 1904a: 5 (characters in key); Raffray 1908a: 135 (characters in key), 155 (characters); O. Park 1942: 215 (characters in key), 246 (characters). Key: Raffray 1898a: 432 (species of the genus as Batrisus); O. Park 1942: 247 (species of the genus). Distribution.

Central America: Panama.

South America: Bolivia, Brazil, Chile.

0028. Oxarthrius Reitter, 1883a: 378 (Fig. 28)

Type species: Oxarthrius bispinosus Reitter, 1883

Subgenera:

Baroxarthrius O. Park, 1942: 244 [*]

Type species: Oxarthrius escharus O. Park, 1942

Oxarthrius Reitter, 1883a: 378 [*]

Type species: Oxarthrius bispinosus Reitter, 1883

13 species are known from and are restricted Central and South America.

Characters/Description: Reitter 1888: 248 (characters); Raffray 1894: 230 (characters in key), 261 (characters); Raffray 1898a: 436 (characters); Raffray 1904a: 4 (characters in key); Raffray 1908a: 134 (characters in key), 153 (characters); O. Park 1942: 215 (characters in key), 240 (characters); Chandler 2002: 52 (characters in key); Chandler 2013: 324 (characters of Baroxarthrius); Asenjo et al. 2018: 414 (characters).

Key: Raffray 1898a: 437 (species); O. Park 1942: 241 (subgenera), 241 (species of subgenus Oxarthrius).

Distribution.

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

South America: Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina.

0029. Syrbatus Reitter, 1882a: 134

Type species: Batrisus clypeatus Reitter, 1882

Subgenera:

Syrbatidius Jeannel, 1952c: 212

Type species: Syrbatus collarti Jeannel, 1950

Syrbatodes Jeannel, 1959: 318 [synonymized by Leleup 1973: 49]

Type species: Syrbatus leleupi Jeannel, 1950

Syrbatus Reitter, 1882a: 134 [*]

Type species: Batrisus clypeatus Reitter, 1882

30 species are included in this genus from South America.

Characters/Description: Raffray 1894: 231 (characters in key); Raffray 1898a: 443 (characters), 443 (characters in key); Raffray 1904a: 4 (characters in key); Raffray 1908a: 134 (characters in key); O. Park 1942: 215 (characters in key), 233 (characters); Leleup 1981: 34 (characters).

Key: Reitter 1888: 244 (Brazilian species of the genus); Raffray 1898a: 443 (species of the genus); Raffray 1904a: 15 (species group); O. Park 1942: 233–236 (group of species and species).

Distribution.

South America: Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina.

Other regions: Ethiopian.

0030. Syrmocerus Raffray, 1898a: 459

Type species: Arthmius cervus Raffray, 1898

6 species are known from and are restricted to South America. Characters/Description: Raffray 1898a: 443 (characters in key), 459 (characters); Raffray 1904a: 4 (characters in key); Raffray 1908a: 134 (characters in key), 153 (characters); O. Park 1942: 215 (characters in key), 238 (characters); Borgmeier 1954: 201 (characters). Key: Raffray 1898a: 459 (species of the genus); O. Park 1942: 238 (species of the genus). Distribution. South America: Brazil.