Aglyptinus Cockerell

Peck, Stewart B., Gnaspini, Pedro & Newton, Alfred F., 2020, Updated catalog and generic keys of the Leiodidae (Insecta: Coleoptera) of the Neotropical region (“ Latin America ”: Mexico, the West Indies, and Central and South America), Zootaxa 4741 (1), pp. 1-114 : 83

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4741.1.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3797227
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scientific name	Aglyptinus Cockerell
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Genus Aglyptinus Cockerell View in CoL

Aglyptinus Cockerell, 1906: 240 View in CoL (replacement name for Aglyptus LeConte View in CoL , not Förster [1856]). Type species: Colenis laevis LeConte (monotypy).

= Aglyptus LeConte, 1866: 369 View in CoL (preoccupied, not Förster [1856]). Type species: Colenis laevis LeConte (monotypy).

= Aglyptonotus Champion, 1913: 65 View in CoL (replacement name for Aglyptus LeConte View in CoL ); Hatch, 1929a: 4 syn. (not stated as taxonomic change).

Key: to species of West Indies in Peck & Cook, 2014: 41.

Distribution: 41 species—Neotropical, eastern Nearctic, England, New Guinea. Note: An undetermined (?undescribed) species from Tobago Island (of Trinidad and Tobago) (Peck et al., 2002: 12), and many undescribed species ( Seago & Wheeler, 2004: 235).

Biology: Often found on mushrooms and other epigean fungi in moist forests ( Newton, 1984).