Cymindidina Laporte, 1834, 1802

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

Subtribe Cymindidina Laporte, 1834

Cymindidae Laporte, 1834: 46. Type genus: Cymindis Latreille, 1805. Note. The stem of Cymindis is Cymindid - (Madge 1989: 462).

Taridae Gistel, 1848b: [2]. Type genus: Tarus Clairville, 1806 (= Cymindis Latreille, 1805).

Pseudomasoreini Jeannel, 1942: 1039. Type genus: Pseudomasoreus Desbrochers des Loges, 1904. Synonymy established by Ball and Hilchie (1983: 132).

Diversity.

About 315 species (Lorenz 2005: 465-470, excluding Metaxymorphus ) in the Nearctic (27 species), Neotropical (12 species), Oriental (six species), Palaearctic (about 170 species), and Afrotropical (about 115 species) Regions. These species are arrayed in nine genera: Taridius Chaudoir (four Oriental species), Afrotarus Jeannel (seven species in Africa, Arabia, and India), Cymindis (about 200 species), Petrimagnia Kryzhanovskij and Mikhailov (one species from Tadzhikistan), Leptosarcus Péringuey (two Afrotropical species), Pseudomasoreus Desbrochers des Loges (20 species in Africa, one of them extending into southwestern Europe), Assadecma Basilewsky (one Madagascan species), Hystrichopus Boheman (about 70 species in Africa and one in Yemen), and Plagiopyga Boheman (13 Afrotropical species). According to Ball and Hilchie (1983: 197), the Afrotropical genus Metaxymorphus Chaudoir belongs to the subtribe Dromiusina . On the other hand, Basilewsky (1984: 551), followed by Lorenz (2005: 470), listed it, but with strong doubt, with the Cymindidina .