Tribe Leptochirini Sharp, 1887a
0716. Leptochirus Germar, 1823: 35 (Figs. 103–104)
Type species: Leptochirus scoriaceus Germar, 1823
Subgenera:
Leptochirus Germar, 1823: 35 [*]
Type species: Leptochirus scoriaceus Germar, 1823
Mesochirus Bernhauer, 1903a: 120 [*]
Type species: Cucujus maxillosus Fabricius, 1801
Strongylochirus Bernhauer, 1903a: 120
Type species: Leptochirus laevis Laporte, 1840
Tropiochirus Bernhauer, 1903a: 120 [*]
Type species: Leptochirus proteus Fauvel, 1864
57 species are included in this genus from Latin America.
Characters/Description: Bernhauer 1903a: 117 (characters); Blackwelder 1943: 120 (characters in key), 162 (characters); Navarrete-Heredia et al. 2002: 212 (characters in key); Wu & Zhou 2007: 81 (characters in key); Asenjo & Ribeiro-Costa 2013: 1258 (characters as subgenus Tropiochirus).
Key: Bernhauer 1903a: 120 (subgenera and species); Asenjo & Ribeiro-Costa 2013: 1283 (species of the subgenus Tropiochirus).
Distribution.
West Indies: Trinidad-Tobago.
Central America: Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama.
South America: Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, French Guiana, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina.
Other regions: Palaearctic, Oriental.
0717. Plastus Bernhauer, 1903a: 142
Type species: Leptochirus convexus Laporte, 1835
Subgenera:
Barychirus Greenslade, 1971: 135
Type species: Priochirus colossalis Bernhauer, 1927
Eutriacanthus Jakobson, 1908: 466
Type species: Leptochirus unicolor Laporte, 1835
Triacanthochirus Bernhauer, 1923: 63 [synonymized by Greenslade, 1971: 137]
Type species: Leptochirus unicolor Laporte, 1835
Triacanthus Bernhauer, 1903: 136, 158 [synonymized by Bernhauer, 1923b: 63]
Type species: Leptochirus unicolor Laporte, 1835
Exochirus Greenslade, 1971: 139
Type species: Leptochirus beccarii Fauvel, 1878
Leiochirus Greenslade, 1971: 134
Type species: Priochirus latifrons Greenslade, 1971
Plastus Bernhauer, 1903: 142
Type species: Leptochirus convexus Laporte, 1835
Sinumandibulus Wu & Zhou, 2007: 81
Type species: Priochirus japonicus Sharp, 1889
Stigmatochirus Bernhauer, 1903: 141, 159
Type species: Priochirus dohrni Fauvel, 1902
Syncampsochirus Bernhauer, 1903: 141, 159 [*]
Type species: Leptochirus samoensis Blanchard, 1853
1 species is included in this genus from South America.
Characters/Description: Wu & Zhou 2007: 81 (characters, characters in key).
Distribution.
South America: Brazil.
Other regions: Palaearctic, Madagascan, Oriental, Australian, Oceanic.
0718. Priochirus Sharp, 1887a: 740 (Fig. 112)
Type species: Priochirus haemorrhous Sharp, 1887
Subgenera:
Cephalomerus Bernhauer, 1903a: 139, 159
Type species: Leptochirus pygmaeus Kraatz, 1859
Euleptarthrus Jakobson, 1908: 466
Type species: Leptochirus longicornis Fauvel, 1864
Leptarthrus Bernhauer, 1903a: 141, 159 [synonymized by Scheerpeltz 1933: 1004]
Type species: Leptochirus longicornis Fauvel, 1864
Neoleptarthrus Scheerpeltz, 1933: 1004 [synonymized by Greenslade 1971: 132]
Type species: Leptochirus longicornis Fauvel, 1864
Priochirus Sharp, 1887a: 740 [*]
Type species: Priochirus haemorrhous Sharp, 1887
Paraborolinus Nakane & Sawada, 1960: 121
Type species: Borolinus bicornis Nakane & Sawada, 1960
Peucodontus Bernhauer, 1903a: 140, 159
Type species: Leptochirus mandibularis Kraatz, 1859
11 species are included in this genus from Central and South America.
Characters/Description: Bernhauer 1903a: 135 (characters); Navarrete-Heredia et al. 2002: 212 (characters in key); Wu & Zhou 2007: 81 (characters in key), 89 (characters).
Key: Bernhauer 1903a: 136 (subgenera and species of the genus); Wu & Zhou 2007: 81 (subgenera of the genus).
Distribution.
Central America: Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Belize, Costa Rica, Panama.
South America: Colombia, Ecuador.
Other regions: Palaearctic, Oriental.