Coptodera is a genus of beetles in the family Carabidae, constituted of 105 species distributed across North and South America, Africa, Oceania and eastern Asia.
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.
It contains the following species:
Coptodera acutipennis (Buquet, 1834)Coptodera aeneorufa Bates, 1869Coptodera aerata Dejean, 1825Coptodera alluaudi (Jeannel, 1949)Coptodera amoenula Boheman, 1848Coptodera apicalis Shpeley & Ball, 1993Coptodera aurata Chavrolat, 1835Coptodera bifasciata Putzeys, 1845Coptodera braziliensis Shpeley & Ball, 1993Coptodera brunnea Shpeley & Ball, 1993Coptodera catalai (Jeannel, 1949)Coptodera cechovsky Kirschenhofer, 2010Coptodera chalcites Bates, 1869Coptodera championi Bates, 1883Coptodera chaudoiri Andrewes, 1919Coptodera congoana Burgeon, 1937Coptodera cupreotincta Bates, 1869Coptodera dromioides (Bates, 1869)Coptodera elongata Putzeys, 1845Coptodera eluta Andrewes, 1923Coptodera emarginata Dejean, 1825Coptodera erwini Shpeley & Ball, 1993Coptodera esakii Nakane, 1956Coptodera farai Jedlicka, 1963Coptodera festiva Dejean, 1825Coptodera flexuosa Schmidt-Gobel, 1846Coptodera foveolata Shpeley & Ball, 1993Coptodera fulminans (Bates, 1869)Coptodera hova Alluaud, 1936Coptodera immaculata (Mateu, 1970)Coptodera interrupta Schmidt-Gobel, 1846Coptodera japonica Bates, 1883Coptodera lineata (Bates, 1883)Coptodera marginata Dupuis, 1912Coptodera megalops Bates, 1869Coptodera nigrosignata (Reiche, 1843)Coptodera nigroviridis Shpeley & Ball, 1993Coptodera nitidula (Buquet, 1834)Coptodera nobilis Jedlicka, 1963Coptodera osakana Nakane, Ohkura & Ueno, 1955Coptodera pakitza Shpeley & Ball, 1993Coptodera picea Dejean, 1826Coptodera poecila Bates, 1883Coptodera proksi Jedlicka, 1963Coptodera relucens Bates, 1869Coptodera rufescens Buquet, 1835Coptodera sahlbergi Chaudoir, 1869Coptodera sallei Shpeley & Ball, 1993Coptodera schaumi Chaudoir, 1861Coptodera seyrigi Alluaud, 1936Coptodera sigillata Shpeley & Ball, 1993Coptodera squiresi (Chaudoir, 1869)Coptodera stockwelli Shpeley & Ball, 1993Coptodera subapicalis Putzeys, 1877Coptodera subapicaloides Jedlicka, 1956Coptodera taiwana Nakane, 1956Coptodera teutonica Shpeley & Ball, 1993Coptodera transversa (Reiche, 1843)Coptodera tripartita Chaudoir, 1869Coptodera tripunctata Shpeley & Ball, 1993Coptodera undulata Perty, 1830Coptodera versicolor Bates, 1869Coptodera viridis Shpeley & Ball, 1993Coptodera waytkowskii Liebke, 1951Coptodera xanthopleura Bates, 1891
