Coptodera is a genus of beetles in the family Carabidae, constituted of 105 species[1] distributed across North and South America, Africa, Oceania and eastern Asia.

Coptodera
Temporal range: Eocene–Recent
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Carabidae
Subfamily: Lebiinae
Tribe: Lebiini
Genus: Coptodera
Dejean, 1825
Subgenera
  • Coptodera Dejean, 1825
  • Coptoderina Jeannel, 1949
  • Coptoderinella Hansen, 1968
  • Haplocrepis Jeannel, 1949
Coptodera aerata, Oklahoma
Coptodera interrupta

They are small flattened beetles. The body size is usually under 11 mm and pronotum is generally wider than long. Many of them present patches or spots of different colours on the elytra.

A single fossil species of this genus has been described: Coptodera elektra, from Europe's Eocene, was described in 2015 from a single piece of Baltic amber.[2]

It contains the following species:[3]

References edit

  1. ^ Lorenz, W (2005). Systematic list of the extant ground beetles of the world (Insecta. Coleoptera "Geadephaga: Trachypachidae and Carabidae incl. Paussinae, Cicindelinae, Rhysodinae).
  2. ^ Gamboa, Sara; Ortuño, Vicente M. (2015-07-07). "A new fossil species of the genus Coptodera Dejean, 1825 (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Lebiinae) from Baltic amber". Zootaxa. 3981 (4): 592–596. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3981.4.9. ISSN 1175-5334.
  3. ^ "Coptodera Dejean, 1825". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2023-03-23.