Nycteliini

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: Pimeliinae
Tribus: Nycteliini
Genera: Auladera – Callyntra – Entomobalia – Entomoderes – Epipedonota – Gyriosomus – Mitragenius – Nyctelia – Patagonogenius – Pilobalia – Psectrascelis – Scelidospecta
Name

Nycteliini Solier, 1834

Type genus: Nyctelia Pierre André Latreille, 1825
References

Flores, G.E. 1997: Revisión de la tribu Nycteliini (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae). Revista de la Sociedad Entomológica Argentina, 56: 1–19.
Flores, G.E. 2000: Cladistic analysis of the Neotropical tribe Nycteliini (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae). Journal of the New York Entomological Society, 108: 13–25.
Flores, G.E. 2009: Revision of some types of the South American tribes Nycteliini, Praocini, and Scotobiini (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae), with new synonymies. Zootaxa, 1985: 21–33. Abstract & excerpt
Flores, G.E.; Triplehorn, C.A. 2002: Entomobalia, new genus, the first member of Nycteliini (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) from Brazil. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 104: 602–613.

Nycteliini is a tribe of darkling beetles in the subfamily Pimeliinae of the family Tenebrionidae. There are about 12 genera in Nycteliini, found in the Neotropics.[1][2][3]
Genera

These genera belong to the tribe Nycteliini[1]

Auladera Solier, 1836
Callyntra Solier, 1836
Entomobalia Flores & Triplehorn, 2002
Entomoderes Solier, 1836
Epipedonota Solier, 1836
Gyriosomus Guérin-Méneville, 1834
Mitragenius Solier, 1836
Nyctelia Berthold, 1827
Patagonogenius Flores, 1999
Pilobalia Burmeister, 1875
Psectrascelis Solier, 1836
Scelidospecta Kulzer, 1954

References

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

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.