Toxicini
Cryphaeus gazella, Indonesia
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Infraorder: Cucujiformia
Family: Tenebrionidae
Subfamily: Tenebrioninae
Tribe: Toxicini
Oken, 1843
Subtribes
  • Dysantina Gebien, 1922
  • Nycteropina Lacordaire, 1859
  • Toxicina Oken, 1843

Toxicini is a tribe of darkling beetles in the family Tenebrionidae. There are about 17 genera in Toxicini.[1][2]

Genera

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

  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.

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.


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