Coptodera Dejean, 1825

Bousquet, Yves, 2012, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico, ZooKeys 245, pp. 1-1722 : 794

publication ID	https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.245.3416
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4774263
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scientific name	Coptodera Dejean, 1825
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Genus Coptodera Dejean, 1825

Coptodera Dejean, 1825: 273. Type species: Coptodera festiva Dejean, 1825 designated by Hope (1838: 85). Etymology (original). From the Greek copto (to cut, chop) and dere (neck, by extension pronotum), alluding to the straight (i.e., without lobe as in Lebia ) basal edge of the pronotum (" corselet ... coupé carrément postérieurement ") of the adult [feminine].

Diversity.

About 105 species (Lorenz 2005: 457-458) in the Nearctic (five species), Neotropical (43 species), Australian, Afrotropical, Oriental, and Palaearctic (13 species in eastern Asia only) Regions. These species are arrayed in four subgenera: Coptodera s.str. (about 45 species), Haplocrepis Jeannel (six Afrotropical species), Coptoderina Jeannel (53 species), and Coptoderinella Hansen (one Afrotropical species).

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Hexapoda
Order	Coleoptera
Family	Carabidae