Toxicini

Toxicini
Cryphaeus gazella, Indonesia
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
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.