Cossyphodini is a tribe of darkling beetles in the subfamily Pimeliinae of the family Tenebrionidae. There are about seven genera in Cossyphodini.[1][2][3]
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Coleoptera |
Family: | Tenebrionidae |
Subfamily: | Pimeliinae |
Tribe: | Cossyphodini Wasmann, 1899 |
Subtribes | |
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Genera
editThese genera belong to the tribe Cossyphodini[1]
- Cossyphodes Westwood, 1851 (the Palearctic and tropical Africa)
- Cossyphodinus Wasmann, 1899 (tropical Africa and Indomalaya)
- Cossyphodites Brauns, 1901 (tropical Africa)
- Esemephe Steiner, 1980 (the Neotropics)
- Mimocossyphus Pic, 1923 (the Palearctic)
- Paramellon C.O. Waterhouse, 1882 (the Palearctic, tropical Africa, and Indomalaya)
- Paramellops Andreae, 1961 (tropical Africa)
References
edit- ^ a b 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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
edit- 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.