A.F. Newton et al.: Staphylinidae of the Biologia Centrali-Americana: Current status of the names

Zootaxa 1251: 1-70 (2006) ISSN 1175-5326 (print edition) 
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Staphylinidae (Insecta: Coleoptera) of the Biologia Centrali-Americana: Current status of the names 

JOSE LUIS NAVARRETE-HEREDIA, CECILIA GOMEZ-RODRIGUEZ & ALFRED F. NEWTON

Centro de Estudios en Zoologia, CUCBA, Universidad de Guadalajara, Apdo. Postal 234, 45100, Zapopan, 
Jalisco, Mexico. E-mail: snavarre@cucba.udg.mx 

Zoology Department, Field Museum of Natural History, Roosevelt Road at Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL, 
60605, USA. E-mail: anewton@fielmuseum.org 

Table of contents 

Abstract ................................ 3
Introduction ............................ 4
Material and methods .................... 4
Results ................................. 5
Acknowledgments ......................... 8
References .............................. 8
Appendix ................................12


Abstract 

The Biologia Centrali-Americana (1879-1915), an obligate reference for the taxonomy of insects 
and other organisms from Mexico and Central America, is now available free on the web at http:// 
www.sil.si.edu/digitalcollections/bca/. However, many included names are now out of date. We 
provide an updated list of all names of Staphylinidae (including Pselaphidae and Scaphidiidae) 
cited in the Biologia Centrali-Americana to use as a complement to that work. Of the 1610 
staphylinid species-group names originally included, 929 remain as valid names without change, 
581 have been previously transferred to other genera, 125 have been treated as junior synonyms, 
four treated as misidentifications of other names, and one (Cephaloplectus godmani Sharp, 1883) 
has been transferred to the family Ptiliidae. Our study also shows that 38 additional names should 
be transferred as new combinations to the genera Achenomorphus (from Aderocharis), Biocrypta 
and Homaeotarsus (from Ochthephilum), Neohypnus (from Xantholinus), and Platydracus (from 
Staphylinus and Amichorus), and seven species previously transferred to Medon should be returned 
to their original genus Scioporus as resurrected combinations.