Sphodrini Laporte, 1834, 1829

Bousquet, Yves, 2012, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico, ZooKeys 245, pp. 1-1722 : 724

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.245.3416

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scientific name

Sphodrini Laporte, 1834
status

 

Tribe Sphodrini Laporte, 1834 View in CoL View at ENA

Sphodridae Laporte, 1834: 78. Type genus: Sphodrus Clairville, 1806.

Diversity.

About 825 species in the Nearctic (13 species), Neotropical (16 species in Mexico), Oriental (about eight species), Palaearctic (about 775 species), and Afrotropical (17 species in Ethiopia) Regions, arrayed in six subtribes: Atranopsina (about 100 species), Calathina (about 185 species), Dolichina (17 species), Pristosiina (about 65 Asian species), Synuchina (about 100 species), and Sphodrina (about 360 species).

Taxonomic Note.

Several authors, including Lindroth (1966) and Ball and Bousquet (2000), placed the sphodrines within the tribe Platynini .

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Carabidae