MORAVEC - NEOTROPICAL TIGER BEETLE GENERA OF THE SUBTRIBE ODONTOCHEILINA (Coleoptera: Cicindelidae)

The first part of the complete taxonomic and nomenclatorial revision of the 15 Neotropical genera of the newly defined beetle subtribe Odontocheilina W. Horn, 1899 sensu Moravec (2012a) is presented as Volume 1. The results are based on a thorough examination of relevant type specimens and more than seven thousand other specimens. In this first part of the revision, 87 species are recognized as members of the following three genera: Odontocheila Laporte de Castelnau, 1834 (78 species, 1 subspecies), Cenothyla Rivalier, 1969 (7 species) and Phyllodroma Lacordaire,1842 (2 species).

The infrageneric arrangement of the largest genus Odontocheila proposed by Rivalier (1969), who subdivided the genus into five species-groups, is considerably reassessed here according to more accurate diagnostic characters and also because the number of species has considerably increased. Consequently, the genus Odontocheila is subdivided here into nine species-groups. Keys to species of these three genera and to species-groups of Odontocheila are presented, as well as a preliminary key to all the genera of the Odontocheilina subtribe, including other 12 genera which are subject of Volume 2, where the previously subgenera of Pentacomia Bates, 1872 are treated as separate genera, formally elevated to their generic level by Moravec & Huber (2015) and Moravec (2018).