4. Genus CINYRA Laporte & Gory, 1837
[Feminine - 5 species - Neotropical, Oceania regions]

Buprestis (Cinyra) Laporte & Gory 1837:157 (Buprestis, 14th Division); Imhoff 1856:46; Lacordaire 1857:45; Gemminger & Harold 1869:1381; Kerremans 1885:136; 1892:109; 1893a:137; 1903a:137.
Type species: Buprestis elongata Laporte & Gory, 1837 (subsequent designation: Casey 1909:53).
Cynira Saunders 1871:47 (lapsus calami); Kerremans 1893a:109; 1903a:137; Obenberger 1930:360; Blackwelder 1944:312; Bellamy 1985b:419.
Cinyra: Casey 1909:174; Obenberger 1930:359; Blackwelder 1944:312; Cobos 1975:94; 1979d:226; Bellamy 1985b:414; Hołyński 1993c:13, 27; Bellamy 2003b:39.
Paraleptodema Obenberger 1936u:106; Cobos 1955a:4; Obenberger 1958d:488; Cobos 1975:91 (spp. key); 1979:226 (synonym of Cinyra); Levey 1978a:156; Bellamy 1985b:414; 2003b:40.
Type species: Paraleptodema strandi Obenberger, 1936 (by monotypy).