Cylindera Westwood, 1831

Bousquet, Yves, 2012, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico, ZooKeys 245, pp. 1-1722 : 210

Subgenus Cylindera Westwood, 1831

Cylindera Westwood, 1831: 300. Type species: Cicindela germanica Linnaeus, 1758 by monotypy.

Eumecus Motschulsky, 1850a: 4. Type species: Cicindela germanica Linnaeus, 1758 designated by Motschulsky (1862b: 22).

Cicindosa Motschulsky, 1864: 173. Type species: Cicindosa obliquealba Motschulsky, 1864 (= Cicindela morio Klug, 1834) designated by Horn (1915: 236). Synonymy established by Freitag and Barnes (1989: 317).

Cylindrodera Bedel, 1879: 6. Unjustified emendation of Cylindera Westwood, 1831. Note. Bedel (1879) used the spelling Cylindera in the key (page 3) and Cylindrodera in the text (page 6), both as valid.

Cylindella Jacobson, 1924: 238. Unnecessary replacement name for Cylindera Westwood, 1831.

Diversity.

About 45 species (Lorenz 2005: 55-56) in the Nearctic (eight species, 14 species-group taxa), Neotropical (about 15 species), Oriental (four species), Palaearctic (14 species), and Afrotropical (six species) Regions.