Cyrtoptyphlus Dodero, 1900

Hlaváč, Peter, Janák, Jiří & Baňař, Petr, 2025, Endogean and cavernicolous Coleoptera of the Balkans. XXVIII. Synopsis of the subfamily Leptotyphlinae Fauvel, 1874 (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae) of the Balkan Peninsula, with the description of three new species from Serbia and Montenegro, Zootaxa 5594 (1), pp. 61-97 : 71

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scientific name	Cyrtoptyphlus Dodero, 1900
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Cyrtotyphlus Dodero, 1900a: 401 .

Type species: Cyrtotyphlus convexus Dodero, 1900 . Designation by monotypy.

Cyrtotyphlus Dodero : Coiffait, 1957: 61 (in key); Coiffait, 1959: 276 (redescription, key to species); Pace, 1976: 45 (diagnosis, distribution); Pace, 1977b: 196 (key to species of Apennine Mountains); Pace, 1996: 75 (redescription, key to Italian species); Struyve, 2022: 10 (in key).

Diagnosis. Gular sutures confluent in anterior third of head, finished in confluent point; antennae with 10 or 11 antennomeres; antennal club composed of two antennomeres; antennomere 5 about as large as 4 and 6; tarsal formula 2-2-2; aedeagus symmetric with strongly enlarged parameres, largely covering distal part of median lobe, with some distal setae.

Remarks. Smaller genus, with 7 species, 3 species are in France and Italy, one Italian species is also recorded from Slovenia, two species are in Greece, one in Eastern Macedonia and Thrace and one on the island Samothráki. One species is known from Montenegro and one from Romania.

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Coleoptera
Family	Staphylinidae
SubFamily	Leptotyphlinae
Tribe	Entomoculiini