Pinodytes Horn, 1880

Peck, Stewart B. & Cook, Joyce, 2011, Systematics, distributions and bionomics of the Catopocerini (eyeless soil fungivore beetles) of North America (Coleoptera: Leiodidae: Catopocerinae) 3077, Zootaxa 3077 (1), pp. 1-118 : 14-15

Genus Pinodytes Horn, 1880 , resurrected status

Pinodytes Horn 1880: 248 . Type species: Catops cryptophagoides Mannerheim, 1852 (monotypy); valid name: Pinodytes cryptophagoides (Mannerheim) .

Homeosoma Austin 1880: 16 (attributed to Horn; preoccupied, not Curtis 1833); synonomy in Hatch 1928: 72. Type species: Catops cryptophagoides (Mannerheim), 1852 . Note: as Homaeosoma in Neave (1939-40).

Typhloleiodes Hatch 1935: 116 ; synonomy in Hatch 1957: 19. Type species: Typhloleiodes subterraneus Hatch, 1935 ; by original designation.

Diagnosis. Antennal segments 7, 9. and 10 do not bear tooth-like serrations. Metaventrite and first visible abdominal sternite without setose paired impressions. Spiculum gastrale present. Parameres continuous with basal piece. Parameres with paired apical or subapical setae. Anterior apophysis present on female sternite 8. Spermatheca usually elongate, sinuate. Larvae (of examined species) with bilobed ligula and maxillary lobe ( Newton 1998).

Distribution and diversity. The genus is Nearctic in distribution, and is presently known to contain 42 species in North America west of the Mississippi River; distributed from the Ozarks and east Texas, westward to southern California, and through Colorado and Idaho to central Alaska, but absent in most of glaciated western North America.