Platynini Bonelli, 1810

Bousquet, Yves, 2012, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico, ZooKeys 245, pp. 1-1722 : 730

Tribe Platynini Bonelli, 1810

Platynii Bonelli, 1810: Tabula Synoptica. Type genus: Platynus Bonelli, 1810.

Anchomenii Bonelli, 1810: Tabula Synoptica. Type genus: Anchomenus Bonelli, 1810.

Sericodiadae Kirby, 1837: 14. Type genus: Sericoda Kirby, 1837.

Agonidae Kirby, 1837: 23. Type genus: Agonum Bonelli, 1810. Note. The Commission (ICZN 1996: 223) ruled that the stem of the genus Agonum is Agonum- , not Agon - as it should be, to remove homonymy with Agonidae Swainson, 1839 (Osteichthyes, Scorpaeniformes).

Colpodidas Chaudoir, 1872c: 285. Type genus: Colpodes Macleay, 1825.

Agelaeina Jacobson, 1907: 334. Type genus: Agelaea Gené, 1839.

Diversity.

Worldwide, with about 2,670 species arrayed in 170 genera (Lorenz 2005: 407-437, excluding Enoicina and Atranus ). The Northern Hemisphere has about 750 species (28% of the world fauna) and North America alone about 160 (6%).