Agra Fabricius, 1801

Bousquet, Yves, 2012, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico, ZooKeys 245, pp. 1-1722 : 834

Genus Agra Fabricius, 1801

Agra Fabricius, 1801: 224. Type species: Agra aenea Fabricius, 1801 designated by Latreille (1810: 426). Etymology. From the Greek agra (catch, booty, prey, seizure) [feminine].

Agrana Rafinesque, 1815: 109. Unjustified emendation of Agra Fabricius, 1801.

Agridia Chaudoir, 1861d: 109. Type species: Agridia platyscelis Chaudoir, 1861 designated by Erwin (1982a: 45). Synonymy established by Erwin (1982a: 45).

Diversity.

About 585 species in the Neotropical Region, one of them extending into southeastern Texas.

Taxonomic Note.

1. Erwin (1982a: 45) postulated that Agra is the putative sister-group of Callidiola Jeannel of Africa and Asia, currently recognized as a subgenus of Calleida . Casale (1998: 401) challenged this hypothesis and postulated that Agra could be the sister-group to physoderines which are found in Australia, some Pacific islands, eastern Asia, and central and south Africa. 2. According to Erwin (in Ball and Bousquet 2000: 115), two species, both undescribed, reach southeastern Texas. Therefore, the species currently recorded from United States is probably not a resident of North America.