Subfamily
Ammotrechinae Roewer 1934
Ammotrechinae Roewer, 1934: 590-591
;
Mello-Leitão, 1938b: 22; Muma, 1951: 123;
Muma, 1970a: 44; Muma, 1971b
:
11; Muma, 1976: 24-25.
Diagnosis: Roewer
(1934) characterized the subfamily as follows:
"Ammotrechidae,
deren 2. und 3. Tarsus jeweils l-gliedrig und deren 4.
Tarsus 3-gliedrig ist; 2. und 3. Tibia dorsal-apikal nicht bedornt,
ventralapikal mit 2 Dornborsten. Das erste Glied des 3-gliedrigen 4.
Tarsus ist das längste, das zweite nur so lang wie dick, das dritte
etwas kürzer als das erste (Abb. 335, f-k)."
[Ammotrechidae
whose 2nd and 3 Tarsi are each 1-segmented and whose 4th Tarsi are
3-segmented; 2nd and 3 Tibia dorsoapically undadorned, ventroapically
with 2 spinelike setae. The first segment of the 3-segmented 4th Tarsus
is the longest, the second only as long as wide, the third slightly
shorter than the first (Fig. 335, f-k).]
Ventral view of Ammotrechinae
tarsi: 335f = leg II, III (Pseudocleobis) ;
335g-i,k = leg IV (g = Ammotrechella,
Neocleobis; h = Ammotrecha, Ammotrechesta,
Ammotrechinus; i = Ammotrechula; k =
Pseudocleobis). (Spination varies according to genus).
Distribution: North,
Central and South America.
Included genera:
Ammotrecha Banks
1900 (10 species)
Ammotrechella Roewer 1934 (17 species)
Ammotrechesta
Roewer 1934 (5 species)
Ammotrechinus Roewer 1934 (1 species)
Ammotrechula
Roewer 1934 (12 species)
Antillotrecha Armas 1994 (2 species)
Campostrecha Mello Leitão
1937 (1 species)
Dasycleobis
Mello Leitão
1940 (1 species)
Neocleobis
Roewer 1934 (1 species)
Pseudocleobis Pocock 1900 (20 species)
Roewer (1934) recognized 10
genera within this subfamily when he first established it. Of these,
Ammotrechelis Roewer 1934 was later transferred to the Daesiidae
(Maury 1987), Ammotrechona was synonymized with Ammotrechella
(Armas 2004), Tetracleobis was synonymized with Pseudocleobis
(Maury 1976), and the rest remain.
