Trachelostenini

Trachelostenini
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Cucujiformia
Family:	Tenebrionidae
Subfamily:	Tenebrioninae
Tribe:	Trachelostenini Lacordaire, 1859
Synonyms
Trachelostenidae

Trachelostenini is a tribe of darkling beetles in the family Tenebrionidae. There are at least three genera in Trachelostenini. ^{[1] [2]} It was historically ranked as the family Trachelostenidae, ^[3] but a 2015 study sunk the family into the tenebrionid (darkling beetle) subfamily Tenebrioninae. ^[4]

Genera

These genera belong to the tribe Trachelostenini:

• Leaus Matthews & Lawrence, 1992 (Australasia)
• Myrmecodema Gebien, 1943 (the Neotropics)
• Trachelostenus Solier, 1851 (the Neotropics)

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. 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.
3. Lawrence, John F. and Ślipinśki, Adam. "11.13. Trachelostenidae Lacordaire, 1859". Volume 2 Morphology and Systematics (Elateroidea, Bostrichiformia, Cucujiformia partim), edited by Willy Kükenthal, Richard A.B. Leschen, Rolf G. Beutel and John F. Lawrence, Berlin, New York: De Gruyter, 2011, pp. 571-574.
4. Matthews, Eric G.; Lawrence, John F. (2015-09-22). "Trachelostenini sensu novo: redescriptions of Trachelostenus Solier, Myrmecodema Gebien and Leaus Matthews & Lawrence, based on adults and larvae, and descriptions of three new species of Leaus (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae)" . Zootaxa. 4020 (2): 289. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4020.2.4. ISSN   1175-5334.

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.