Cnemeplatiini

Cnemeplatiini
Philhammus ferenczi, Gambia
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Family:	Tenebrionidae
Subfamily:	Pimeliinae
Tribe:	Cnemeplatiini Jacquelin du Val, 1861
Subtribes
Actizetina Watt, 1992 Alaudina Aalbu, Caterino & Smith, 2018 Cnemeplatiina Jacquelin du Val, 1861 Rondoniellina Ferrer & Moragues, 2000 Thorictosomatina Watt, 1992

Cnemeplatiini is a tribe of darkling beetles in the subfamily Pimeliinae of the family Tenebrionidae. There are about nine genera in Cnemeplatiini.[1][2][3][4]

Genera

These genera belong to the tribe Cnemeplatiini[2]

• Actizeta Pascoe, 1875 (Australasia)
• Alaudes Horn, 1870 (North America)
• Cnemeplatia Costa, 1847 (the Palearctic, tropical Africa, and Indomalaya)
• Durandius Kaszab, 1970 (Indomalaya)
• Lepidocnemeplatia Bousquet & Bouchard, 2018 (North America, the Neotropics, and Indomalaya)
• Philhammus Fairmaire, 1871 (the Palearctic and tropical Africa)
• Rondoniella Kaszab, 1970 (Indomalaya)
• Thorictosoma Lea, 1919 (Australasia)
• Wattiana Matthews & Lawrence, 2005 (Australasia)

References

1. "Cnemeplatiini tribe Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2021-08-07.
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.
3. 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.
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.

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.