Patrobina Kirby, 1837, 1821

Bousquet, Yves, 2012, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico, ZooKeys 245, pp. 1-1722 : 465

Subtribe Patrobina Kirby, 1837

Patrobidae Kirby, 1837: 50. Type genus: Patrobus Dejean, 1821.

Diversity.

Northern Hemisphere, with about 80 species in the Nearctic (eight species) and Palaearctic (about 75 species, only six of them occurring in Europe) Regions arrayed in ten genera: Apatrobus Habu and Baba (28 species), Archipatrobus Zamotajlov (three species), Chaetapatrobus Lafer (one species), Chinapenetetrus Kurnakov (11 species), Dimorphopatrobus Casale and Sciaky (one species), Minypatrobus Uéno (four species), Parapenetretus Kurnakov (14 species), Patrobus (16 species), Platypatrobus (one species), and Quasipenetretus Zamotajlov (one species).