Genus Coptodera Dejean, 1825 Coptodera Dejean, 1825: 273. Type species: Coptodera festiva Dejean, 1825 designated by Hope (1838: 85). Etymology (original). From the Greek copto (to cut, chop) and dere (neck, by extension pronotum), alluding to the straight (i.e., without lobe as in Lebia) basal edge of the pronotum (" corselet ... coupé carrément postérieurement ") of the adult [feminine]. Diversity. About 105 species (Lorenz 2005: 457-458) in the Nearctic (five species), Neotropical (43 species), Australian, Afrotropical, Oriental, and Palaearctic (13 species in eastern Asia only) Regions. These species are arrayed in four subgenera: Coptodera s.str. (about 45 species), Haplocrepis Jeannel (six Afrotropical species), Coptoderina Jeannel (53 species), and Coptoderinella Hansen (one Afrotropical species).

Published as part of Bousquet, Yves, 2012, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico, pp. 1-1722 in ZooKeys 245 on page 794, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.245.3416, http://zenodo.org/record/578462