Cylindera Westwood, 1831

Bousquet, Yves, 2012, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico, ZooKeys 245, pp. 1-1722 : 210

Genus Cylindera Westwood, 1831

Cylindera Westwood, 1831: 300. Type species: Cicindela germanica Linnaeus, 1758 by monotypy. Etymology. From the Greek cylindros (cylinder), probably alluding to the more cylindrical shape of the sole species known to Westwood [feminine].

Diversity.

About 210 species in all zoogeographical regions. The North American fauna includes eight species (about 4% of the world fauna) placed in the nominotypical subgenus.

Taxonomic Note.

Lorenz (2005: 54-58) listed the following taxa as subgenera of Cylindera : Apterodela Rivalier (four species), Conidera Rivalier (two species), Eriodera Rivalier (one species), Eugrapha Rivalier (32 species), Gaymara Freitag and Barnes (five Neotropical species), Glomera Acciavatti and Pearson (two species), Ifasina Jeannel (67 species), Leptinomera Rivalier (25 species), Oligoma Rivalier (two species), Plectographa Rivalier (19 species), Setinteridenta Acciavatti (one species), and Verticina Rivalier (six species). Cicindelina Jeannel (one Madagascan species) was transferred from the genus Cicindela to Cylindera by Moravec (2010: 198).