Pedinini

Pedinini
Pedinus femoralis
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Infraorder:	Cucujiformia
Family:	Tenebrionidae
Subfamily:	Blaptinae
Tribe:	Pedinini Eschscholtz, 1829
Subtribes
Helopinina Lacordaire, 1859 Leichenina Mulsant, 1854 Pedinina Eschscholtz, 1829

Pedinini is a tribe of darkling beetles in the family Tenebrionidae. There are about 19 genera in Pedinini. ^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}

In research by Kamiński et al. published in 2021, Pedinini and six other tribes were moved from Tenebrioninae into the newly resurrected subfamily Blaptinae. These tribes contained 281 genera and about 4000 species, about 50% of Tenebrioninae. The new classification was followed by Bouchard et al. the same year. ^{[5] [3]}

Genera

These genera belong to the tribe Pedinini:

• Amatodes Dejean, 1834 (tropical Africa)
• Ametrocera Fåhraeus, 1870 (tropical Africa)
• Anaxius Fåhraeus, 1870 (tropical Africa)
• Apsheronellus Bogatchev, 1967 (the Palearctic)
• Aptila Fåhraeus, 1870 (tropical Africa)
• Asidodema Koch, 1958 (tropical Africa)
• Blastarnodes Koch, 1958 (tropical Africa)
• Cabirutus Strand, 1929 (the Palearctic and Indomalaya)
• Colpotinus Fairmaire, 1891 (the Palearctic)
• Diestecopus Solier, 1848 (tropical Africa)
• Drosochrus Erichson, 1843 (the Palearctic and tropical Africa)
• Leichenum Dejean, 1834 (North America, the Palearctic, Indomalaya, Australasia, and Oceania)
• Loensus R. Lucas, 1920 (tropical Africa and Indomalaya)
• Micrantereus Solier, 1848 (the Palearctic and tropical Africa)
• Nicandra Fairmaire, 1888 (tropical Africa)
• Oncopteryx Gebien, 1943 (tropical Africa)
• Pedinus Latreille, 1797 (the Palearctic and Indomalaya)
• Piscicula Robiche, 2004 (tropical Africa)
• Psectes Hesse, 1935 (tropical Africa)

References

1. "Pedinini 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. 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.

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.