D. curtus Portevin, 1903a: 162, 1921: 535 (as D. monilis, misidentification—see Note 1); Jeannel, 1936: 152 (assignment to group); Szymczakowski, 1961: 150; Salgado, 2002a: 255, 2007b: 143, 2008b: 221, 2010a: 294, 2014c: 124, 2016a: 63, 2018a: 65. Syntypes (several specimens, [probably] in Grouvelle collection, in original description, with a male habitus illustrated) in MNHN [in Jeannel, 1936, males and females]. Type locality: Cochabamba [Department], Bolivia. Distribution: Bolivia: Cochabamba Department; Ecuador: Cotopaxi, Pichincha, and Zamora-Chinchipe Provinces; Peru: Cuzco and Huánuco Departments; Venezuela: Distrito Capital. Note 1: Considering the synonymic list in Jeannel, 1936: 152, it seems that this species was misidentified as D. monilis Murray [1856] in Portevin, 1921: 535. Note 2: Mexico (in caves): The records in Guerrero (in Szymczakowski, 1968: 18, as a doubtful record) and in Chiapas (in Peck, 1973b: 105, 1977: 186) are in error but the true identification of those specimens is not reported (SBP, personal data).

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 22, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4741.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3772899