Toxicini
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| Cryphaeus gazella, Indonesia | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Family: | Tenebrionidae |
| Subfamily: | Tenebrioninae |
| Tribe: | Toxicini Oken, 1843 |
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Toxicini is a tribe of darkling beetles in the family Tenebrionidae. There are about 17 genera in Toxicini.[1][2]
Genera
[edit]These genera belong to the tribe Toxicini:
- Calymmus Montrouzier, 1860 (Australasia)
- Chalcostylus Fairmaire, 1898 (tropical Africa)
- Cryphaeus Klug, 1833 (the Palearctic, tropical Africa, Indomalaya, and Australasia)
- Cylindrosia Gebien, 1922 (tropical Africa)
- Diceroderes Solier, 1841 (the Neotropics)
- Dysantes Pascoe, 1869 (tropical Africa and Indomalaya)
- Epitoxicum Bates, 1873 (Indomalaya)
- Ilyxerus Pascoe, 1866 (Australasia)
- Macellocerus Solier, 1848 (tropical Africa)
- Mychestes Pascoe, 1870 (Australasia)
- Nycteropus Klug, 1833 (tropical Africa)
- Opostirus Kirsch, 1865 (the Neotropics)
- Orcopagia Pascoe, 1868 (Australasia)
- Ozolais Pascoe, 1866 (the Neotropics)
- Taiwanocryphaeus Masumoto, 1996 (Indomalaya)
- Toxicum Latreille, 1802 (the Palearctic, Indomalaya, and Australasia)
- Wattius Kaszab, 1982 (the Neotropics)
References
[edit]- ^ Bouchard, Patrice; Bousquet, Yves; Aalbu, Rolf L.; Alonso-Zarazaga, Miguel A.; et al. (2021). "Review of genus-group names in the family Tenebrionidae (Insecta, Coleoptera)". ZooKeys (1050): 1–633. doi:10.3897/zookeys.1050.64217. hdl:10261/250214. PMC 8328949. PMID 34385881.
- ^ Bouchard, Patrice; Bousquet, Yves; Davies, Anthony E.; Alonso-Zarazaga, Miguel A.; et al. (2011). "Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta)". ZooKeys (88): 1–972. doi:10.3897/zookeys.88.807. PMC 3088472. PMID 21594053.
Further reading
[edit]- LeConte, J. L. (1861). Classification of the Coleoptera of North America. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. Vol. 3. Smithsonian Institution. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.38459. ISBN 978-0665100550.
- Somerby, Ronald E.; Thomas, Donald B.; Triplehorn, Charles A. (2002). "Family 106: Tenebrionidae". In Arnett, Ross H. Jr.; Thomas, Michael C.; Skelley, Paul E.; Frank, J. Howard (eds.). American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press. pp. 463–509. ISBN 978-0-8493-0954-0.
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