Platynus Bonelli, 1810

Bousquet, Yves, 2012, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico, ZooKeys 245, pp. 1-1722 : 773

Subgenus Platynus Bonelli, 1810

Platynus Bonelli, 1810: Tabula Synoptica. Type species: Carabus angusticollis Fabricius, 1801 (= Carabus assimilis Paykull, 1790) by subsequent monotypy in Germar (1817: 303).

Lyrophorus Chaudoir [in Chevrolat], 1846: 522. Type species: Carabus angusticollis Fabricius, 1801 (= Carabus assimilis Paykull, 1790) by monotypy. Etymology (original). From the Greek lyra (lyre) and phoro (to bear, carry) [masculine]. Note. This name is usually credited to Seidlitz (1872: 15 [Arten]) but it was made available by Chaudoir many years earlier.

Limodromus Motschulsky, 1850a: 70. Type species: Carabus angusticollis Fabricius, 1801 (= Carabus assimilis Paykull, 1790) designated by Motschulsky (1865: 316). Etymology. Probably from the Greek prefix limo - (meadow) and dromos (running) [masculine].

Diversity.

Sixteen species in the Nearctic (nine species, of which one extends into Mexico) and Palaearctic (seven species) Regions.