Tribe Brachinini Bonelli, 1810

Diagnosis. Mandibular scrobe multisetose or unisetose. Labial palps with terminal segment wedge-shaped, subcylindrical or globose-attenuate. Gular sutures divergent posteriorly. Pro-coxal cavities uniperforate or biperforate; propleural suture present or absent; upper spur of protibia present or absent and external; Male protarsal ventral adhesive vestiture segments composed of two parallel rows of modified setae; mesepimeron wide, but not approaching mesocoxa. Head and pronotum mostly reddish yellow to reddish brown. Protibia with one apical and one subapical spur, conjunct mesocoxa. Metepimeron lobed. Elytra color variable from bluish to black with pale maculae, truncate, costate, sometime striae not prominent. Abdomen with seven sterna in female and eight sterna in male, normally visible. Crepitating chambers openings near the middle of anterior side of modified ninth tergum in both male and female (Erwin 1970).

Three genera have been recorded from northern Pakistan, Brachinus Weber, 1801; Mastax Fischer von Waldheim, 1828 and Pheropsophus Solier, 1833.