Subtribe Gyrophaenina Kraatz, 1856b
0453. Agaricochara Kraatz, 1856b: 361
Type species: Gyrophaena laevicollis Kraatz, 1854
14 species are included in this genus from the West Indies and South America.
Characters/Description: Seevers 1951: 740 (characters); Ashe 1984: 241 (characters in key), 255 (characters). Distribution.
West Indies: Martinique, St. Lucia.
South America: Colombia, Ecuador, Peru.
Other regions: Nearctic, Palaearctic.
0454. Agaricomorpha Ashe, 1984: 263
Type species: Gyrophaena apacheana Seevers, 1951
1 species is included in this genus from South America.
Characters/Description: Ashe 1984: 241 (characters in key); Ashe 2002b: 130 (characters in key); Eldredge 2012c: 232 (characters in key).
Distribution.
South America: Argentina.
Other regions: Nearctic, Palaearctic.
0455. Ashea Y.H. Kim & Ahn, 2015: 92 (Fig. 47)
Type species: Ashea megacephala Kim & Ahn, 2015
Only one species is known from and is restricted to South America.
Characters/Description: Y.H. Kim & Ahn 2015: 99 (characters in key).
Distribution.
South America: Peru.
0456. Brachida Mulsant & Rey, 1871: 4
Type species: Homalota notha Erichson, 1839
Brachida Mulsant & Rey, 1872b: 94 [synonymized by Blackwelder 1952: 84]
Brachida Mulsant & Rey, 1873c: 74 [synonymized by Blackwelder 1952: 84]
30 species are included in this genus from South America.
Characters/Description: Ashe 1984: 240 (characters in key), 254 (characters).
Key: Pace 2002: 126, 128, 130, 133, 134 (some species of the genus); Pace 2008a: 247 (species of Ecuador and Peru).
Distribution.
South America: Colombia, Venezuela, Suriname, French Guiana, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, Argentina.
Other regions: Palaearctic, Ethiopian, Madagascan, Oriental, Australian, Oceanic.
0457. Brachycantharus Bierig, 1939a: 16
Type species: Brachycantharus gibber Bierig, 1939
2 species are known from and are restricted to Central and South America.
Distribution.
Central America: Panama.
South America: Brazil.
0458. Brachychara Sharp, 1883: 267
Type species: Brachychara crassa Sharp, 1883
10 species are included in this genus from Latin America.
Characters/Description: Ashe 1984: 241 (characters in key), 261 (characters); Ashe 2002b: 130 (characters in key). Distribution.
West Indies: Cuba, St. Vincent & Grenadines.
Central America: Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Panama.
South America: French Guiana, Ecuador, Brazil.
Other regions: Nearctic.
0459. Dactyloglossa Pace, 1986a: 418
Type species: Dactyloglossa inca Pace, 1986
Only one species is known from and is restricted to South America.
Distribution.
South America: Bolivia.
0460. Eumicrota Casey, 1906: 280
Type species: Gyrophaena corruscula Erichson, 1839
33 species are included in this genus from Latin America.
Characters/Description: Seevers 1951: 732 (characters); Ashe 1984: 241 (characters in key), 249 (characters); Ashe 2002b: 130 (characters in key); Y.H. Kim & Ahn 2015: 99 (characters in key).
Key: Pace 2002: 120, 122, 124, 126 (some species of Eumicrota).
Distribution.
West Indies: St. Lucia.
Central America: Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Panama.
South America: Venezuela, French Guiana, Brazil, Argentina.
Other regions: Nearctic.
0461. Gyrophaena Mannerheim, 1830: 74
Type species: Staphylinus nanus Paykull, 1800
Subgenera:
Agaricophaena Reitter, 1909: 85
Type species: Staphylinus boleti Linnaeus, 1758
Enkentrophaena Eichelbaum, 1913: 139
Type species: Gyrophaena plicata Fauvel, 1898
Gyrophaena Mannerheim, 1830: 74 [*]
Type species: Staphylinus nanus Paykull, 1800
Leptarthrophaena Blackwelder, 1952: 215 [*]
Type species: Gyrophaena affinis Mannerheim, 1830
Leptarthrophaena Scheerpeltz & Höfler, 1948: 170 [synonymized by Blackwelder 1952: 215] Orphnebioidea Schubert, 1908: 611
Type species: Orphnebioidea rosti Schubert, 1908
Phaenogyra Mulsant & Rey, 1871: 76
Type species: Gyrophaena strictula Erichson, 1839
Phaenogyra Mulsant & Rey, 1872b: 166 [Newton & Thayer 2003]
Phaenogyra Mulsant & Rey, 1873c: 74 [Newton & Thayer 2003]
Razia Blackwelder, 1952: 337
Type species: Zyras abnormalis Bernhauer, 1916
Allocota Bernhauer, 1916b: 428 [synonymized by Blackwelder 1952: 337]
Type species: Zyras abnormalis Bernhauer, 1916
93 species are included in this genus from Latin America.
Characters/Description: Seevers 1951: 673 (characters); Ashe 1984: 241 (characters in key), 242 (characters); Ashe 2002b: 130 (characters in key); Y.H. Kim & Ahn 2015: 99 (characters in key).
Key: Cameron 1922b: 638 (species of the West Indies); Seevers 1951: 671 (some subgenera); Ashe 1984: 245 (subgenera of Gyrophaena); Pace 2008a: 233 (species of Ecuador and Peru).
Distribution.
West Indies: Cuba, Jamaica, Haiti, US Virgin Isl., Guadeloupe, St. Lucia, Saint Vincent & the Grenadines, Grenada.
Central America: Mexico, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama.
South America: Colombia, Venezuela, French Guiana, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina.
Other regions: Nearctic, Palaearctic, Ethiopian, Madagascan, Oriental, Australian, Oceanic.
0462. Microbrachida Bierig, 1939a: 20
Type species: Microbrachida gilvicornis Bierig, 1939
Only one species is known from and is restricted to Central America.
Distribution.
Central America: Costa Rica.
0463. Neobrachychara Bierig, 1939a: 19
Type species: Neobrachychara horni Bierig, 1939
Only one species is known from and is restricted to Central America.
Distribution.
Central America: Panama.
0464. Phanerota Casey, 1906: 285
Type species: Aleochara fasciata Say, 1834
Subgenera:
Acanthophaena Blackwelder, 1952: 34
Type species: Gyrophaena appendiculata Motschulsky, 1858
Acanthophaena Cameron, 1934: 23 [synonymized by Blackwelder 1952: 34]
Phanerota Casey, 1906: 285 [*]
Type species: Aleochara fasciata Say, 1834
20 species are included in this genus from Latin America.
Characters/Description: Seevers 1951: 747 (characters); Ashe 1984: 241 (characters in key), 246 (characters); Ashe 2002b: 130 (characters in key); Y.H. Kim & Ahn 2015: 99 (characters in key).
Key: Ashe 1984: 248 (subgenera of Phanerota); Klimaszewski & Peck 1998: 230 (species of the Galapagos Isl.); Pace 2002: 118 (some Brazilian species of Phanerota); Newton & Peck 2006: 137 (species of the Galapagos Isl.).
Distribution.
West Indies: St. Lucia, Trinidad-Tobago.
Central America: Mexico, Guatemala, Panama.
South America: Colombia, French Guiana, Ecuador, Galapagos Isl., Peru, Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina.
Other regions: Nearctic, Ethiopian, Oriental, Australian, Oceanic.
0465. Probrachida Ashe, 1984: 252
Type species: Brachida modesta Sharp, 1883
6 species are included in this genus from Central and South America.
Characters/Description: Ashe 1984: 240 (characters in key); Ashe 2002b: 130 (characters in key); Eldredge 2012c: 231 (characters), 232 (characters in key).
Distribution.
Central America: Guatemala, Panama.
South America: Bolivia, Brazil, Argentina.
Other regions: Nearctic.