Bythinoplectini L. W. Schaufuss 1890
Creators: name: Asenjo, Angélico
name: Irmler, Ulrich
name: Klimaszewski, Jan
name: Chandler, Donald S.
name: Fierros-López, Hugo Eduardo
name: Vieira, Juliana S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae

description: Tribe Bythinoplectini L.W. Schaufuss, 1890
Subtribe Bythinoplectina L.W. Schaufuss, 1890
0034. Besucheteidos Comellini, 1985: 748
Type species: Besucheteidos guaimi Comellini, 1985
13 species are known from and are restricted to Central and South America.
Characters/Description: Comellini 1985: 710 (characters in key); Coulon 1989: 188 (characters in key), 189 (characters); Chandler 2002: 54 (characters in key).
Distribution.
Central America: Mexico, Costa Rica, Panama.
South America: Venezuela, Ecuador.
0035. Bythinoplectoides Comellini, 1985: 739
Type species: Bythinoplectoides gigas Comellini, 1985
1 species is included in this genus from Central America.
Characters/Description: Comellini 1985: 710 (characters in key); Coulon 1989: 85 (characters in key), 150 (characters); Chandler 2002: 54 (characters in key).
Distribution.
Central America: Mexico.
Other regions: Nearctic.
0036. Bythinoplectus Reitter, 1882b: 209
Type species: Bythinoplectus foveatus Reitter, 1883
31 species are included in this genus from Latin America.
Characters/Description: Raffray 1897: 229 (characters); Raffray 1898b: 204 (characters in key); Raffray 1904b: 501 (characters in key); Raffray 1908a: 22 (characters in key), 24 (characters); O. Park 1944: 242 (characters in key); Becker & Sanderson 1953a: 403 (characters in key), 404 (characters); Comellini 1985: 710 (characters in key), 716 (characters); Coulon 1989: 85 (characters in key), 151 (characters); Chandler 2002: 54 (characters in key).
Key: O. Park 1944: 251 (Mexican species); O. Park 1945a: 278 (species of the genus); O. Park 1952a: 7 (species of the genus); Becker & Sanderson 1953a: 406 (species of Honduras); O. Park et al. 1976: 5 (species of the West Indies); Newton & Peck 2006: 133 (species of Galapagos Isl.).
Distribution.
West Indies: Bahamas, Cuba, US Virgin Isl., Grenada, Trinidad-Tobago.
Central America: Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Costa Rica, Panama.
South America: Suriname, French Guiana, Galapagos Isl., Peru, Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina.
Other regions: Nearctic.
0037. Dichocoryna Comellini, 1985: 742
Type species: Dichocoryna longipalpis Comellini, 1985
2 species are included in this genus from Central and South America.
Characters/Description: Comellini 1985: 710 (characters in key), 742 (characters); Coulon 1989: 188 (characters in key), 191 (characters); Chandler 2001: 75 (characters in key), 76 (characters).
Distribution.
Central America: Costa Rica, Panama.
South America: Venezuela.
Other regions: Oriental, Australian.
0038. Hendecameros Comellini, 1985: 754
Type species: Hendecameros costaricense Comellini, 1985
10 species are known from and are restricted to Central and South America.
Characters/Description: Comellini 1985: 710 (characters in key); Coulon 1989: 234 (characters in key), 236 (characters).
Distribution.
Central America: Costa Rica, Panama.
South America: Colombia, Venezuela, French Guiana, Brazil.
0039. Octomeros Comellini, 1985: 714
Type species: Octomeros sulcatum Comellini, 1985
2 species are known from and are restricted to Central and South America.
Characters/Description: Comellini 1985: 708 (characters in key); Coulon 1989: 189 (characters in key), 222 (characters).
Distribution.
Central America: Costa Rica.
South America: Brazil.
0040. Poeciloceras Comellini, 1985: 712
Type species: Poeciloceras portentosum Comellini, 1985
Only one species is known from and is restricted to South America.
Characters/Description: Comellini 1985: 708 (characters in key); Coulon 1989: 86 (characters in key), 162 (characters).
Distribution.
South America: Brazil, Paraguay.
0041. Pyxidion Comellini, 1985: 744
Type species: Pyxidion acinaces Comellini, 1985
3 species are known from and are restricted to Central and South America.
Characters/Description: Comellini 1985: 710 (characters in key); Coulon 1989: 85 (characters in key), 135 (characters).
Distribution.
Central America: Panama.
South America: Brazil, Paraguay.
0042. Schizocoryna Comellini, 1985: 740
Type species: Schizocoryna wagneri Comellini, 1985
Only one species is known from and is restricted to Central America.
Characters/Description: Comellini 1985: 710 (characters in key); Coulon 1989: 234 (characters in key), 240 (characters).
Distribution.
Central America: Panama.
description: Published as part of 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, pp. 1-406 in Zootaxa 4621 (1) on pages 24-26, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4621.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3257228