MEGALOPSIDIINAE Leng, 1920

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 : 232

Subfamily MEGALOPSIDIINAE Leng, 1920

0783. Megalopinus Eichelbaum, 1915: 104 ( Figs. 128–131 )

Type species: Oxyporus caelatus Gravenhorst, 1802

Aulacotrachelus L. Benick, 1920: 1 [synonymized by L. Benick 1922: 1]

Type species: Oxyporus caelatus Gravenhorst, 1802

Megalops Erichson, 1839a: 30 [synonymized by Scheerpeltz 1933: 1142]

Type species: Oxyporus caelatus Gravenhorst, 1802

Megalopsidia Leng, 1918: 204 [synonymized by Blackwelder 1952: 235]

Type species: Oxyporus caelatus Gravenhorst, 1802

Subgenera:

Gata Blackwelder, 1943: 202 [*]

Type species: Megalops praeditus Sharp, 1886

Perostylus L. Benick, 1917: 190 [synonymized by Blackwelder 1943: 202]

Type species: Megalops praeditus Sharp, 1886

Megalopinus Eichelbaum, 1915: 104 [*]

Type species: Oxyporus caelatus Gravenhorst, 1802

Megalopsidiella Bernhauer, 1933c: 333 [*]

Type species: Megalopsidia ogloblini Bernhauer, 1933

Polycyrtopsidia Scheerpeltz, 1972d: 95 [*]

Type species: Megalopsidia sanguinitriguttata Scheerpeltz, 1972

Stylopodus L. Benick, 1917: 190 [*]

Type species: Megalops cephalotes Erichson, 1840

332 species are included in this genus from Latin America.

Characters/Description: Coiffait & Sáiz 1968: 395 (characters, Megalopsidia ).

Key: Bernhauer 1933c: 333 ( Megalopsidia of the Argentina); Blackwelder 1943: 203 (species of the subgenus Stylopodus of the West Indies); Sáiz 1970d: 3 (species of Chile); Puthz 1972: 119 ( Megalopinus of the Chile); Puthz 1994a: 17 (species of Megalopinus peploides group); Puthz 1994b: 425 (species of incisicollis complex); Puthz 2012: 620 (Neotropical species and species group), 674 (species of the subgroup pulcher of caelatus group), 682 (species of cephalotes group), 690 (species of incisicollis group), 711 (species the frons - complex of punctatus group).

Distribution.

West Indies: Cuba, St. Vincent & Grenadines, Grenada, Trinidad-Tobago.

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

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

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

Figures

FIGURES 124–135. Habitus; Oxytelinae (124–125); Oxyporinae (126–127); Megalopsidiinae (128–131); Scydmaeninae (132–135); 124, after Palomino & Dale 1989; 125, after Sharp 1887a; 126, after Márquez & Asiain 2006; 127, after Márquez et al. 2005; 128, after Puthz 2012; 129, after Sharp 1887a; 130, after Puthz 2012; 131, Chile: region of Araucanía (VMDC); 132, after Jałoszyński 2013a; 133, after Jałoszyński 2013e; 134, after Jałoszyński 2011a; 135, after Lord et al. 2014; slightly modified. Scale bars: 1 mm.