Cymindis Latreille, 1805

Bousquet, Yves, 2012, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico, ZooKeys 245, pp. 1-1722 : 795-796

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Genus Cymindis Latreille, 1805

Cymindis Latreille, 1805: 190. Type species: Buprestis humeralis Geoffroy, 1785 by monotypy. Etymology. From the Greek cymindis (kind of hawk in Pliny the Elder) [feminine]. Note. Bousquet and Larochelle (1993: 267-269) treated Cymindis as masculine but the name is feminine (Theil 1882: 709).

Tarus Clairville, 1806: 94, 95. Type species: Buprestis humeralis Geoffroy, 1785 designated by Curtis (1828: plate 235).

Diversity.

About 200 species (Lorenz 2005: 465-469, as Pinacodera and Cymindis ) in the Nearctic (27 species), Neotropical (13 species), and Palaearctic (167 species) Regions arrayed in 15 subgenera.

Taxonomic Note.

Ball and Hilchie (1983) regarded Afrotarus , Pinacodera , and Taridius as subgenera of Cymindis , implicitly considering all 14 subgenera of Cymindis currently recognized in Lorenz (2005) as synonyms of Cymindis s.str. For practical reasons this approach is not followed here except that Pinacodera is retained as a subgenus of Cymindis .