Metopiasini Raffray, 1904b

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 : 32-33

Tribe Metopiasini Raffray, 1904b

Subtribe Metopiasina Raffray, 1904b

0065. Barrometopia O. Park, 1942: 210

Type species: Barrometopia quasimoda Park, 1942

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

Characters/Description: O. Park 1942: 205 (characters in key).

Distribution.

Central America: Panama.

South America: Venezuela.

0066. Bibrax Fletcher, 1927: 149

Type species: Bibrax bradleyi Fletcher, 1927

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

Characters/Description: O. Park 1942: 284 (characters in key), 284 (characters); Comellini 1979: 689 (characters in key).

Distribution.

Central America: Panama.

0067. Chandleria Comellini, 1998: 345

Type species: Chandleria angusta Comellini, 1998

5 species are known from and are restricted to Central and South America.

Distribution.

Central America: Panama.

South America: Colombia.

0068. Metopias Gory, 1832 : unnumbered page

Type species: Metopias curculionoides Gory, 1832

Marnax Laporte, 1835: 137 [synonymized by Lacordaire 1854: 169]

Type species: Metopias curculionoides Gory, 1832

4 species are known from and are restricted to South America.

Characters/Description: Reitter 1885a: 334 (characters); Raffray 1908a: 187 (characters in key and characters); O. Park 1942: 204 (characters in key); Comellini 1993: 921 (characters).

Distribution.

South America: Suriname, French Guiana.

0069. Metopiasoides Comellini, 2000: 765 ( Fig. 24 )

Type species: Metopiasoides werneri Comellini, 2000

10 species are known from and are restricted to Central and South America.

Characters/Description: Comellini 2000: 765 (characters); Asenjo 2016: 587 (characters).

Distribution.

Central America: Costa Rica, Panama.

South America: Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil.

0070. Metopiellus Raffray, 1908a: 188 ( Fig. 25 )

Type species: Metopias hirtus Reitter, 1885

4 species are known from and are restricted to South America.

Characters/Description: Raffray 1908a: 187 (characters in key), 188 (characters); O. Park 1942: 205 (characters in key); Asenjo et al. 2017: 122 (characters).

Key: Asenjo et al. 2017: 122 (species of the genus).

Distribution.

South America: Brazil, Argentina.

0071. Metopiosoma Raffray, 1908a: 188

Type species: Metopias pacificus Westwood, 1856

9 species are known from and are restricted to South America.

Characters/Description: Raffray 1908a: 187 (characters in key), 188 (characters); O. Park 1942: 205 (characters in key); Comellini 1994: 107 (characters).

Distribution.

South America: Venezuela, Brazil, Argentina.

0072. Metopioxys Reitter, 1885a: 334

Type species: Metopioxys gladiator Reitter, 1885

20 are known from and are restricted to South America.

Characters/Description: Raffray 1908a: 187 (characters in key), 189 (characters); O. Park 1942: 204 (characters in key), 205 (characters); Comellini 1983: 438 (characters).

Key: O. Park 1942: 205 (species of the genus); Comellini 1983: 438 (species group).

Distribution.

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

Figures

FIGURES 16–27. Habitus; Micropeplinae (16–18), Neophoninae (19), Pselaphinae (20–27); 16, after Campbell 1968; 17, after Campbell 1973c; 18, after Tronquet & Degallier 2010; 19 Chile: region of Los Lagos (VMDC); 20, after Reitter 1883b; 21, after Reitter 1889; 22, after Bryant 1915; 23, after Raffray 1887; 24, after Asenjo 2016; 25, after Asenjo et al. 2017; 26, after O. Park 1952b; 27, after Bruch 1929; slightly modified. Scale bars: 1 mm.