Pogonini Laporte, 1834, 1932

Bousquet, Yves, 2012, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico, ZooKeys 245, pp. 1-1722 : 460-461

Tribe Pogonini Laporte, 1834

Pogonidae Laporte, 1834: 70. Type genus: Pogonus Dejean, 1821.

Pogonopsini Bedel, 1900a: 20. Type genus: Pogonopsis Bedel, 1898.

Diversity.

About 85 species (Lorenz 2005: 237-238) in the Nearctic (six species), Neotropical (five species), Australian (about 15 species), Palaearctic (about 50 species), and Afrotropical (five species) Regions arrayed in 12 genera: Bedeliolus Semenov (three Palaearctic species), Cardiaderus Dejean (one Palaearctic species), Diodercarus Lutshnik (one Palaearctic species), Diplochaetus (four species), Ochtozetus Chaudoir (two South American species), Olegius Komarov (one species from Turkmenistan), Pogonistes Chaudoir (eight Palaearctic species), Pogonopsis Bedel (one north African species), Pogonus (about 55 species), Sirdenus Dejean (five Palaearctic species, one of them extending into the Afrotropical Region), Syrdenoidius Baehr and Hudson (one species from south Australia), and Thalassotrechus (one species).

Identification.

Bousquet and Laplante (1997) revised the Western Hemisphere species and provided a key for their identification.