Calleidina Chaudoir, 1873

Bousquet, Yves, 2012, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico, ZooKeys 245, pp. 1-1722 : 826

Subtribe Calleidina Chaudoir, 1873

Callidides Chaudoir, 1873b: 97. Type genus: Callida Agassiz, 1846 (unjustified emendation of Calleida Latreille, 1824, not in prevailing usage) (= Calleida Latreille, 1824).

Plochionidae des Gozis, 1875: 3. Type genus: Plochionus Dejean, 1821.

Anomotarina Habu, 1967: 117. Type genus: Anomotarus Chaudoir, 1875. Synonymy established by Ball and Hilchie (1983: 173).

Diversity.

Worldwide, with about 660 species arrayed in 46 genera (Lorenz 2005: 491-498). The North American fauna is represented by 24 species (about 3.5 % of the world fauna).

Taxonomic Note.

Erwin (2004: 6) advocated combining calleidines with agrines into one subtribe ( Agrina ) but did not provide any justification. In a cladistic analysis of lebiine exemplars performed by Casale (1998: Fig. 91), calleidines turned out as the sister-group to metallicines and agrines as the sister-group to physoderines. In this work, agrines are retained as a distinct subtribe. In the analysis of Ball et al. (1995), calleidines showed up as the sister-group to gallerucidiines. Jeannel (1949a: 946) listed the gallerucidiines and thysanotines (currently considered as pericalines) with the calleidines (including trichines).