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This is a comprehensive list of all recorded species (866), including 11 subspecies, and genera (113) of Alticinae from Mexico to Panama, but also includes complete distributional data (with references) for each species. It includes all generic and specific synonymies published since the 1939-1940 Coleopterorum Catalogus. There are three new combinations and a new synonym. This checklist basically follows and, for the first time comprehensively synthesizes, the taxon arrangement of the late Jan Bechyne.
In our checklist of the Alticinae of Central America and Mexico (Furth and Savini, 1996), there were some species whose status or generic combination needs clarification. In preparing the
1996 checklist the authors referred to some unpublished notes of Jan Bechyne in order to understand his system of alticine names and to clarify to which genera he considered various species to belong.