Bolitophagini

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Endopterygota
Superordo: Coleopterida
Ordo: Coleoptera
Subordo: Polyphaga
Infraordo: Cucujiformia
Superfamilia: Tenebrionoidea

Familia: Tenebrionidae
Subfamilia: Tenebrioninae
Tribus: Bolitophagini
Genera: Afrobyrsax – Atasthalomorpha – Bolitophagus – Bolitotherus – Boletoxenus – Byrsax – Eledona – Eledonoprius – Parabolitophagus –

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Name

Bolitophagini Kirby, 1837
References

Atlas of darkling beetles (Tenebrionidae) of Russia

Bolitophagini is a tribe of darkling beetles in the family Tenebrionidae. There are more than 20 genera in Bolitophagini.[1][2][3][4]
Genera

These genera belong to the tribe Bolitophagini:

Afrobyrsax Ardoin, 1973 (tropical Africa)
Atasthalomorpha Miyatake, 1964 (the Palearctic)
Atasthalus Pascoe, 1871 (Indomalaya)
Boletoxenus Motschulsky, 1858 (the Palearctic and Indomalaya)
Bolitolaemus Gebien, 1921 (tropical Africa)
Bolitonaeus Lewis, 1894 (the Palearctic and Indomalaya)
Bolitophagiella Miyatake, 1964 (the Palearctic)
Bolitophagus Illiger, 1798 (North America and the Palearctic)
Bolitotherus Candèze, 1861 (North America)
Bolitotrogus Miyatake, 1964 (the Palearctic and Indomalaya)
Byrsax Pascoe, 1860 (the Palearctic, Indomalaya, and Australasia)
Eleates Casey, 1886 (North America)
Eledona Latreille, 1797 (the Palearctic)
Eledonoprius Reitter, 1911 (the Palearctic)
Lanhsia Shibata, 1980 (Indomalaya)
Megeleates Casey, 1895 (North America)
Microatasthalus Ando, 2010 (Indomalaya)
Microbolitonaeus Grimm, 2014 (Indomalaya)
Parabolitophagus Miyatake, 1964 (the Palearctic)
Rhipidandrus LeConte, 1862 (worldwide)
Sumbawia Gebien, 1925 (Indomalaya)
† Proteleates Wickham,1914

References

"Bolitophagini tribe Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2021-08-08.
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; 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.

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.