Tribe Platyprosopini Lynch-Arribálzaga, 1884

0945. Platyprosopus Mannerheim, 1830: 8, 36 (Fig. 219)

Type species: Platyprosopus elongatus Mannerheim, 1830

Megaprosopoda Strand, 1935: 297 [synonymized by Bordoni 2015: 57]

Type species: Platyprosopus beduinus Nordmann, 1837

Megaprosopus Reitter, 1908: 104 [synonymized by Strand 1935: 297]

Type species: Platyprosopus beduinus Nordmann, 1837

17 species are included in this genus from Central and South America.

Characters/Description: Lynch-Arribálzaga 1884: 166 (characters); Smetana 1982: 22 (characters); Navarrete- Heredia et al. 2002: 296 (characters in key).

Key: Irmler 1977: 58 (Neotropical species of the genus).

Distribution.

Central America: Mexico.

South America: Peru, Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina.

Other regions: Nearctic, Palaearctic, Ethiopian, Madagascan, Oriental.