Blaptinae

Blaptinae
Blapstinus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Cucujiformia
Family:	Tenebrionidae
Subfamily:	Blaptinae Leach, 1815
Tribes
Amphidorini LeConte, 1862 Blaptini Leach, 1815 Dendarini Mulsant & Rey, 1854 Dissonomini Medvedev, 1968 Opatrini Brullé, 1832 Pedinini Eschscholtz, 1829 Platynotini Mulsant & Rey, 1853 Platyscelidini Lacordaire, 1859
Diversity
at least 300 genera

Blaptinae is a subfamily of darkling beetles in the family Tenebrionidae. There are around 300 genera in Blaptinae, divided into 8 tribes. ^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}

Based on morphological and molecular evidence, Kamiński et al. (2021) moved seven tribes from Tenebrioninae into the newly resurrected subfamily Blaptinae. In 2024, the tribe Dissonomini was added. The new classification has been widely accepted by scientific community ^{[5] [6] [1]} Currently, the subfamily contains 283 genera and about 4000 species.

Blaptinae is one of the most widespread and abundant groups of darkling beetles in arid regions around the world. In several desert ecosystems, members of this subfamily form a dominant part of the local invertebrate fauna—for example Gonopus tibialis (sandworm beetle) in Namib ^[7] or Parastizopus armaticeps in Kalahari ^[8] .

Ovoviviparity has been documented in certain species of the tribe Platynotina ^[9] , where females have been observed carrying fully developed first-instar larvae within their bursa copulatrix ^[10] .

See also

• List of Blaptinae genera

References

1. 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.
2. Bousquet, Yves; Thomas, Donald B.; Bouchard, Patrice; Smith, Aaron D.; et al. (2018). "Catalogue of Tenebrionidae (Coleoptera) of North America". ZooKeys (728): 1–455. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.728.20602 . PMC   5799738 . PMID   29416389.
3. 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.
4. Kamiński, Marcin J.; Rork, Adam M.; Drake, Martha E.; Replogle, Charla R.; Lumen, Ryan; Wirth, Christopher C.; Kanda, Kojun; Smith, Aaron D. (2024-03-30). "Dissonomini Medvedev, 1968: The Eighth Tribe of the Subfamily Blaptinae (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae)". Annales Zoologici. 74 (1). doi:10.3161/00034541ANZ2024.74.1.009. ISSN   0003-4541.
5. Nabozhenko, Maxim V.; Chigray, Ivan A.; Ntatsopoulos, Konstantinos; Papadopoulou, Anna (2022-03-18). "A key to Russian and Eastern European species of Blaps Fabricius, 1775 (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: Blaptinae) with the description of a new species from the North Caucasus supported by morphological and molecular data". Zootaxa. 5116 (2): 267–291. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5116.2.5. ISSN   1175-5334.
6. Kamiński, Marcin; Lumen, Ryan; Kanda, Kojun; Iwan, Dariusz; et al. (2021). "Reevaluation of Blapimorpha and Opatrinae: addressing a major phylogeny-classification gap in darkling beetles (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: Blaptinae)". Systematic Entomology. 46: 140–156. doi:10.1111/syen.12453. S2CID   224888924.
7. Endrödy-Younga, Sebastian (2000). Revision of the subtribe Gonopina (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae, Opatrinae, Platynotini). Transvaal Museum.
8. Rasa, OAE. "Evidence for subsociality and division of labour in a desert tenebrionid beetle Parastiopus armaticeps Peringuey". Naturwissenschaften. 77: 591–592.
9. Lumen, Ryan; Kamiński, Marcin J (2024-06-03). "Revision of the darkling beetle genus Eurynotus (Blaptinae: Platynotini) and new records of ovovivipary in Tenebrionidae". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 201 (2): 358–386. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlad146. ISSN   0024-4082.
10. Tschinkel, Walter R. "Ovoviviparity in some tenebrionid beetles". Coleopterists Bulletin. 1978 (32): 315–317.

Further reading

• LeConte, J. L. (1981) [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.