Cyclosomini Laporte, 1834, 1829

Bousquet, Yves, 2012, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico, ZooKeys 245, pp. 1-1722 : 789

Tribe Cyclosomini Laporte, 1834

Cyclosomidae Laporte, 1834: 69. Type genus: Cyclosomus Latreille, 1829.

Tetragonoderides Chaudoir, 1871a: 111. Type genus: Tetragonoderus Dejean, 1829.

Sarothrocrepidae Chaudoir, 1876d: 2, 83. Type genus: Sarothrocrepis Chaudoir, 1850. Note. The stem of Sarothrocrepis is Sarothrocrepid - (Madge 1989: 467).

Diversity.

About 120 species in the Nearctic (four species), Neotropical (about 40 species of Tetragonoderus ), Australian (one adventive Tetragonoderus ), Oriental, Palaearctic (20 species), and Afrotropical Regions. These species are arrayed in four genera: Cyclosomus Latreille (13 species), Cyclicus Jeannel (22 afro-oriental species), Mnuphorus Chaudoir (11 species) and Tetragonoderus (about 75 species). The Northern Hemisphere is represented by about 25 species (approximately 21% of the world fauna).

Taxonomic Note.

This tribe is treated here in a restricted sense following Ball and Bousquet (2000: 109) and excluded the graphipterines, corsyrines, masoreines, somoplatines, and nemotarsines.