Adesmiini
Adesmia, Israel
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Infraorder: Cucujiformia
Family: Tenebrionidae
Subfamily: Pimeliinae
Tribe: Adesmiini
Lacordaire, 1859

Adesmiini is a tribe of darkling beetles in the subfamily Pimeliinae of the family Tenebrionidae. There are about 11 genera in Adesmiini, found primarily in tropical Africa.[1][2][3]

Genera

These genera belong to the tribe Adesmiini:[1]

  • Adesmia Fischer von Waldheim, 1822 (the Palearctic, tropical Africa, and Indomalaya)
  • Alogenius Gebien, 1910 (tropical Africa)
  • Epiphysa Dejean, 1834 (tropical Africa)
  • Eustolopus Gebien, 1938 (tropical Africa)
  • Metriopus Solier, 1835 (tropical Africa)
  • Onymacris Allard, 1885 (tropical Africa)
  • Orientocara Koch, 1952 (tropical Africa)
  • Physadesmia Penrith, 1979 (tropical Africa)
  • Renatiella Koch, 1944 (tropical Africa)
  • Stenocara Solier, 1835 (tropical Africa)
  • Stenodesia Reitter, 1916 (tropical Africa)

References

  1. 1 2 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.

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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