D. hetschkoi Reitter, 1884: 39; Portevin, 1903a: 161 (as “new species”, as “Reitt. in litt.”); Jeannel, 1936: 153 (assignment to group); Szymczakowski, 1961: 157, 1963: 680, 1969b: 412; Peck, 1973b: 104, 1977: 189; Gnaspini, 1991a: 332; Salgado, 1992a: 214, 1999: 37, 2005d: 979, 2008b: 221, 2010a: 294, 2010b: 150, 2011c: 426, 2015b: 28, 2018a: 68, 2018b: 421; Peck & Cook, 2016: 82, 2017: 95. No information about types in original description (Reitter nor Portevin); ? Syntype (s) in MNHN [in Jeannel, 1936; Portevin description refers to [probably] Grouvelle collection; sex and number of specimens not given]. Type locality: Blumenau, [Santa Catarina State, Brazil]. Distribution: Argentina: Misiones Province; Belize: Belice, Cayo, Orange Walk, and Stann Creek Districts; Brazil: Amazonas, Bahia, Mato Grosso, Minas Gerais, Pará, Rio de Janeiro, Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina, and São Paulo (in caves and forest) States; Costa Rica: Cartago, Guanacaste, Heredia, Limón, Puntarenas, and San José Provinces; Ecuador: Cotopaxi, Esmeraldas, Manabí, Orellana, and Pichincha Provinces; Guatemala: Alta Verapaz, Izabal, and Petén Departments; Honduras: Francisco Morazán Department; Mexico (in forests and caves): Campeche, Chiapas, Nuevo León, Oaxaca, Puebla, Querétaro, Quintana Roo, San Luis Potosí, Tabasco, Tamaulipas, Veracruz, and Yucatán States; Nicaragua: Granada and Río San Juan Departments; Panama: Canal Zone, Chiriquí, Coclé, and Colón Provinces; Peru: Cuzco Department; Venezuela: Distrito Capital, Miranda and Táchira States., Published as part of Peck, Stewart B., Gnaspini, Pedro & Newton, Alfred F., 2020, Updated catalog and generic keys of the Leiodidae (Insecta: Coleoptera) of the Neotropical region (" Latin America ": Mexico, the West Indies, and Central and South America), pp. 1-114 in Zootaxa 4741 (1) on page 27, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4741.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3772899, {"references":["Reitter, E. 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