Kantokryly

Ground beetles. The most abundant countries in the Mediterranean, where they live in arid and semiarid regions. In Siberia they reach the tundra steppes and highlands. Active at night.

About 200 species in the Holarctic. About a dozen species in Europe. They belong to the tribe Lebiini in the subfamily Harpalinae .

Subgenus

• C. (Arrhostus)
• C. (Baicalotarus)
• C. (Chaetotarus)
• C. (Cymindis)
• C. (Iscariotes)
• C. (Menas)
• C. (Neopsammoxenus)
• C. (Paracymindis)
• C. (Platycymindis)
• C. (Tarsostinus)
• C. (Tarulus)

For the fauna of the USSR, Kryzhanovsky (1983) cited 60 species from 13 subgenuses. ^[one]

• Subgenus Cymindis (Cymindis):
  • C. (C.) angularis
  • C. (C.) humeralis
  • C. (C.) intermedia
  • C. (C.) kuznetzowi
  • C. (C.) larisae
  • C. (C.) lineata
  • C. (C.) ovipennis
  • C. (C.) scapularis
• Subgenus Cymindis (Eremocymindis)
  • Cymindis pallidula
• Subgenus Cymindis (Iscariotes)
  • Cymindis kiritshenkoi
  • Cymindis sabulosa
• Subgenus Cymindis (Menas)
  • Cymindis bedeli
  • Cymindis cylindrica
  • Cymindis faldermanni
  • Cymindis miliaris
  • Cymindis violacea
• Subgenus Cymindis (Paracymindis)
  • Cymindis simplex
  • Cymindis vassili
• Subgenus Cymindis (Tarsostinus)
  • Cymindis binotata
  • Cymindis equestris
  • Cymindis lateralis
  • Cymindis macularis
  • Cymindis medvedevi
• Subgenus Cymindis (Tarulus)
  • Cymindis vagemaculata
  • Cymindis amicta
  • Cymindis simillima
  • Cymindis vaporariorum
  • Cymindis velata
  • Cymindis zargoides

• Kryzhanovsky O. L. 1983: Genus Cymindis. // Fauna of the USSR, Coleopterans (Volume I, issue 2) .- Leningrad, “Science”, p.284.
• Kryzhanovskij OL et al. 1995: A Checklist of the ground-beetles of Russia and Adjacent Lands (Coleoptera, Carabidae). - Sofia: Pensoft Series Faunist. 3, 271 pp.
• Lindroth, CH 1961-1969. The ground beetles (Carabidae excl. Cicindelinae) of Canada and Alaska. Parts 1-6. Opuscula Entomologica xlviii + 1192 pp

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• Genus Cymindis on Fauna Europaea