Subtribe Tanygnathinina Reitter, 1909

1009. Atanygnathus Jakobson, 1909: 521

Type species: Tanygnathus terminalis Erichson, 1839

Tanygnathinus Reitter, 1909: 105 [synonymized by Bernhauer & Schubert 1916: 439]

Type species: Tanygnathus terminalis Erichson, 1839

Tanygnathus Erichson, 1839b: 417 [synonymized by Bernhauer & Schubert 1916: 439]

Type species: Tanygnathus terminalis Erichson, 1839

10 species are included in this genus from Latin America.

Characters/Description: Blackwelder 1943: 395 (characters in key), 471 (characters); Smetana 1971: 270 (characters); Smetana 1988: 368 (characters); Navarrete-Heredia et al. 2002: 298 (characters in key); Newton & Peck 2006: 152 (characters in key).

Key: Blackwelder 1943: 471 (species of the West Indies); Smetana 1988: 369 (species of the genus).

Distribution.

West Indies: Cuba, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Antigua & Barbuda, St. Vincent & Grenadines, Grenada, Trinidad-Tobago.

Central America: Mexico, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Panama.

South America: Venezuela, Brazil.

Other regions: Nearctic, Palaearctic, Ethiopian, Madagascan, Oriental, Australian.