Gyrophaenina Kraatz, 1856b

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 : 140-143

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.

Figures

FIGURES 40–51. Habitus; Habrocerinae (40), Aleocharinae (41–51); 40, after Solier 1849; 41, Brazil: state of Paraná (MUSM); 42, Chile: region of Antofagasta (MUSM); 43, after Pace 2015e; 44, after Ashe 2002a; 45, after Pace 2014a; 46, after Pace 2012; 47, after Y.H. Kim & Ahn 2015; 48, after Pace 2014c; 49, Chile: region of Araucanía (MUSM); 50, after Irmler 2011; 51, after Caron & Ribeiro-Costa 2008; slightly modified. Scale bars: 1 mm.