Licinina Bonelli, 1810, 1913

Subtribe Licinina Bonelli, 1810 View in CoL

Licinii Bonelli, 1810: Tabula Synoptica. Type genus: Licinus Latreille, 1802.

Badistidae Gistel, 1856: 357. Type genus: Badistes Agassiz, 1846 (unjustified emendation of Badister Clairville, 1806, not in prevailing usage) (= Badister Clairville, 1806).

Diversity.

Worldwide, with about 100 species in the Nearctic (14 species of Badister ), Neotropical (five species, one of them belonging to the Chilean genus Eutogeneius Solier), Australian (11 species), Oriental (four species), Palaearctic (68 species), and Afrotropical (three species of Badister ) Regions. Approximately 82% of the species are found in the Northern Hemisphere.

Faunistic Note.

Several specimens of Licinus silphoides (Rossi) were taken alive in Massachusetts as noted by LeConte (1873b: 324). It is likely that a population persisted for a while but since no specimen has been caught in North America in the xx Century, the species is certainly not established on this continent.