Pterostichini Bonelli, 1810, 1866

Bousquet, Yves, 2012, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico, ZooKeys 245, pp. 1-1722 : 494

Tribe Pterostichini Bonelli, 1810

Pterostichii Bonelli, 1810: Tabula Synoptica. Type genus: Pterostichus Bonelli, 1810.

Poecilii Bonelli, 1810: Tabula Synoptica. Type genus: Poecilus Bonelli, 1810.

Molopides Bonelli, 1810: Tabula Synoptica. Type genus: Molops Bonelli, 1810.

Feroniens Dejean, 1825: 3. Type genus: Feronia Latreille, 1816 (= Poecilus Bonelli, 1810).

Trigonotomidae Laporte, 1834: 75 (as Trogonotomidae ). Type genus: Trigonotoma Dejean, 1828.

Catadromiens Brullé, 1835a: 277, 328. Type genus: Catadromus Macleay, 1825.

Stomides Gené, 1839: 50. Type genus: Stomis Clairville, 1806.

Euchroides Chaudoir, 1874b: 16. Type genus: Euchroa Brullé, 1835.

Platysmatini Tschitschérine, 1899a: 84. Type genus: Platysma Bonelli, 1810. Note. The stem of Platysma is Platysmat - (Madge 1989: 467).

Myadina Jacobson, 1907: 334. Type genus: Myas Sturm, 1826. Note. The stem of Myas is Myad - (Madge 1989: 465).

Abaxini Schuler, 1970: 115. Type genus: Abax Bonelli, 1810. Note. The stem of Abax is Abac - (Madge 1989: 460).

Aristochroodini Sciaky, 1996: 437. Type genus: Aristochroodes Marcilhac, 1993.

Diversity.

Worldwide, with about 2,620 species. The North American fauna is represented by about 255 species (9.7% of the world fauna), of which six are adventive, arrayed in 38 genus-group taxa including the eastern endemic Abacidus (five species), Cyclotrachelus (43 species), Cylindrocharis (three species), Feronina (two species), Gastrellarius (three species), Gastrosticta (ten species), Lophoglossus (six species), Monoferonia (four species), Paraferonia (one species), and Piesmus (one species), the western endemic Anilloferonia (three species), Leptoferonia (26 species), Orsonjohnsonus (one species), and Pseudoferonina (nine species), as well as Hypherpes (60 species) and Lamenius (one species).