Galeritina Kirby, 1825, 1941

Bousquet, Yves, 2012, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico, ZooKeys 245, pp. 1-1722 : 839

Subtribe Galeritina Kirby, 1825

Galeritidae Kirby, 1825: 564. Type genus: Galerita Fabricius, 1801.

Galeritinini Jeannel, 1949a: 1057. Type genus: Galeritina Jeannel, 1949 (= Galerita Fabricius, 1801). Note. This name has been placed on the Official Index of Rejected and Invalid Family-Group Names in Zoology (ICZN 1968: 98).

Galeritulini Jedlička, 1963: 279. Type genus: Galeritula Strand, 1936 (= Galerita Fabricius, 1801). Note. This name has been placed on the Official Index of Rejected and Invalid Family-Group Names in Zoology (ICZN 1968: 98).

Diversity.

About 105 species in the temperate, subtropical, and tropical areas of the Nearctic (eight species of Galerita ), Neotropical (64 species), Oriental (seven species of Galerita ), Palaearctic (five species of Galerita ), and Afrotropical (31 species) Regions. The species are placed in four genera: Ancystroglossus Chaudoir (six Neotropical species), Eunostus Laporte (14 Afrotropical species), Galerita (82 species), and Trichognathus Latreille (one Neotropical species).