Bolitophagini

Bolitophagini
Rhipidandrus paradoxus , Oklahoma
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Cucujiformia
Family:	Tenebrionidae
Subfamily:	Tenebrioninae
Tribe:	Bolitophagini W. Kirby, 1837

Bolitophagini is a tribe of darkling beetles in the family Tenebrionidae. There are more than 20 genera in Bolitophagini. ^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}

The type genus of the tribe is Bolitophagus, ^[5] giving the tribe its name.

Etymology

Bolitophagus derives from the Greek (βωλίτησ φάγο - Boletus phage), which describes the taxon as an insect which eats fungi. ^[6]

Genera

These genera belong to the tribe Bolitophagini:

• Afrobyrsax Ardoin, 1973 (tropical Africa)
• Atasthalomorpha Miyatake, 1964 (the Palearctic)
• Atasthalus Pascoe, 1871 (Indomalaya)
• Boletoxenus Motschulsky, 1858 (the Palearctic and Indomalaya)
• Bolitolaemus Gebien, 1921 (tropical Africa)
• Bolitonaeus Lewis, 1894 (the Palearctic and Indomalaya)
• Bolitophagiella Miyatake, 1964 (the Palearctic)
• Bolitophagus Illiger, 1798 (North America and the Palearctic)
• Bolitotherus Candèze, 1861 (North America)
• Bolitotrogus Miyatake, 1964 (the Palearctic and Indomalaya)
• Byrsax Pascoe, 1860 (the Palearctic, Indomalaya, and Australasia)
• Eleates Casey, 1886 (North America)
• Eledona Latreille, 1797 (the Palearctic)
• Eledonoprius Reitter, 1911 (the Palearctic)
• Lanhsia Shibata, 1980 (Indomalaya)
• Megeleates Casey, 1895 (North America)
• Microatasthalus Ando, 2010 (Indomalaya)
• Microbolitonaeus Grimm, 2014 (Indomalaya)
• Parabolitophagus Miyatake, 1964 (the Palearctic)
• Rhipidandrus LeConte, 1862 (worldwide)
• Sumbawia Gebien, 1925 (Indomalaya)
• † Proteleates Wickham, 1914

References

1. "Bolitophagini tribe Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2021-08-08.
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; 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.
4. 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.
5. "Tribe Bolitophagini Kirby, 1837". Australian Faunal Directory. Australian Government. Retrieved 2025-08-20.
6. Kugelann, Johann Gottlieb, 1753-1815; Illiger, Johann Karl Wilhelm, 1775-1813; Johann Christian Ludwig Helwig (1798), Verzeichniss der Käfer Preussens (in German), Halle: bei Johann Jacob Gebauer, doi:10.5962/BHL.TITLE.125071, OCLC   9681734, OL   6539430M, Wikidata   Q51402002 BHL page 52579373

Further reading

• 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.