Broscina Hope, 1838, 2000

Bousquet, Yves, 2012, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico, ZooKeys 245, pp. 1-1722 : 307

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scientific name	Broscina Hope, 1838
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Subtribe Broscina Hope, 1838 View in CoL

Broschidae Hope, 1838: 80. Type genus: Broscus Panzer, 1813.

Cephalotida Heer, 1838: 7. Type genus: Cephalotes Bonelli, 1810 (= Broscus Panzer, 1813). Note. This family-group name is permanently invalid, being based on a preoccupied type genus (ICZN 1999: Article 39).

Zacotini G.H. Horn, 1881: 165, 169. Type genus: Zacotus LeConte, 1869.

Diversity.

About 75 species in the Nearctic (four species), Oriental (four species), and Palaearctic (about 65 species) Regions. One species ( Miscodera arctica ) is Holarctic and one is adventive ( Broscus cephalotes ) in North America.

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