Drilini

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
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: Elateriformia
Superfamilia: Elateroidea

Familia: Elateridae
Subfamilia: Agrypninae
Tribus: Drilini
Genera (5): Drilorhinus – Drilus – Malacogaster – Paradrilus – Selasia
Name

Drilini Blanchard, 1845

References

Blanchard, C.É. 1845. Histoire naturelle des insectes leurs moeurs, leurs métamorphoses et leur classification ou traité élémentaire d’entomologie. Tome premier. Paris, 398 pp.; pls. 1–10. DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.35820 BHL Reference page.
Bocak, L.; Branham, M.A.; Kundrata, R. 2010: 4.9. Drilidae Blanchard, 1845. Pp. 104-110 in: Leschen, R.A.B.; Beutel, R.G.; Lawrence, J.F. (volume eds.) Coleoptera, beetles. Volume 2: Morphology and systematics (Elateroidea, Bostrichiformia, Cucujiformia partim). In: Kristensen, N.P. & Beutel, R.G. (eds.) Handbook of zoology. A natural history of the phyla of the animal kingdom. Volume IV. Arthropoda: Insecta. Part 38. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter. ISBN 3110190753 ISBN 9783110190755
Kundrata, R. 2017. New species of Selasia Laporte, 1838 (Elateridae: Agrypninae: Drilini) from Nepal and Pakistan. Zootaxa 4344(2): 380–386. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4344.2.12.

Reference page.
Kundrata, R. & Bocak, L. 2011. The phylogeny and limits of Elateridae (Insecta, Coleoptera): is there a common tendency of click beetles to soft-bodiedness and neoteny? Zoologica scripta 40(4): 364–378. DOI: 10.1111/j.1463-6409.2011.00476.x Reference page.
Sarka Trllova, S. & Kundrata, R. 2015. A review of the genus Selasia (Elateridae: Agrypninae: Drilini) in the Palaearctic Region. Zootaxa 3920(4): 563–571. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3920.4.5. Reference page.

Links

Drilidae in SYNOPSIS OF THE DESCRIBED COLEOPTERA OF THE WORLD
Atlas of beetles (Drilidae) of Russia - project by A.G. Kirejtshuk and A. Herrmann

Drilini is a tribe of beetles known commonly as the false firefly beetles, in the family Elateridae.[1]
Systematics

In 2011, this lineage, formerly treated as a family, was transferred to the family Elateridae as the tribe Drilini.[2] Two former genera, Pseudeuanoma and Euanoma, were moved to the click beetle subfamily Omalisinae.[3]

A 2019 study presented the first densely sampled molecular phylogeny of Drilini based on nuclear and mitochondrial markers, recovering 5 major clades well supported by morphology along with several new genera and species.[4]
References

Watson, L. and M. J. Dallwitz, M.J. 2003 onwards. Drilidae. Archived 21 May 2013 at the Wayback Machine British insects: the families of Coleoptera. Version: 25 July 2012.
Kundrata, R., Kobieluszova, L. and L. Bocak. (2014). A review of Drilini (Coleoptera: Elateridae: Agrypninae) of the Northern Levant, with description of a new species from Syria and a key to Levantine species. Zootaxa 3755(5), 457-69.
Kundrata, R. and L. Bocak. (2011). The phylogeny and limits of Elateridae (Insecta, Coleoptera): is there a common tendency of click beetles to soft-bodiedness and neoteny? Zoologica Scripta 40, 364–78.
Robin Kundrata; Ladislav Bocak (2019). "Molecular phylogeny reveals the gradual evolutionary transition to soft-bodiedness in click-beetles and identifies sub-Saharan Africa as a cradle of diversity for Drilini (Coleoptera: Elateridae)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 187 (2): 413–452. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlz033.