Pedinini

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: Pedinini
Subtribus (8): Dendarina - Eurynotina - Leichenina - Loensina - Melambiina(= Litoborina) - Pedinina - Platynotina - Pythiopina
[source: Bouchard et al. (2005)]
Overview of genera

Blindus – Cabirutus – Clastopus – Colpotus – Dendarus – Diphyrrhynchus – Kochogaster – Lechius – Leichenum – Microphylacinus – Pedinus – Phylacinus – Phylan – Tragardhus – ...
References

Bouchard, P., Lawrence, J.F., Davies, A.E. & Newton, A.F. 2005. Synoptic classification of the world Tenebrionidae (Insecta: Coleoptera) with a review of family-group names. Annales Zoologici 55(4): 499–530. PDF. Reference page.
Iwan, D.; Kamiński, M.; Aalbu, R. 2011: A new genus Microphylacinus and revision of the closely related Phylacinus Fairmaire, 1896 (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: Pedinini) from Madagascar. Zootaxa, 2913: 1–15. Preview
Iwan, D. & Schimrosczyk, D. 2008. Description of the larva of Anchophthalmus Gerstaecker, 1854 (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: Pedinini), with a key to larvae of Platynotina. African Entomology 16: 287–295. hdl: 10520/EJC32775 Paywall Reference page.
Kaminski, M.J. 2012. Taxonomy of the Afrotropical genera Angolositus Koch, 1955 and Pseudoselinus Iwan, 2002 with a key to species (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: Pedinini). Zootaxa 3500: 49–60. Preview Reference page.
Kamiński, M.J. 2017. Afrotropical Melambiina: revision of the genus Tragardhus Koch, 1956 and redescription of Pseudemmallus Koch, 1956 (Tenebrionidae: Pedinini). Zootaxa 4347(1): 71–93. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4347.1.4. Reference page.

Pedinini is a tribe of darkling beetles in the family Tenebrionidae. There are about 19 genera in Pedinini.[1][2][3][4]

In research by Kamiński et al. published in 2021, Pedinini and six other tribes were moved from Tenebrioninae into the newly resurrected subfamily Blaptinae. These tribes contained 281 genera and about 4000 species, about 50% of Tenebrioninae. The new classification was followed by Bouchard et al. the same year.[5][3]
Genera

These genera belong to the tribe Pedinini:

Amatodes Dejean, 1834 (tropical Africa)
Ametrocera Fåhraeus, 1870 (tropical Africa)
Anaxius Fåhraeus, 1870 (tropical Africa)
Apsheronellus Bogatchev, 1967 (the Palearctic)
Aptila Fåhraeus, 1870 (tropical Africa)
Asidodema Koch, 1958 (tropical Africa)
Blastarnodes Koch, 1958 (tropical Africa)
Cabirutus Strand, 1929 (the Palearctic and Indomalaya)
Colpotinus Fairmaire, 1891 (the Palearctic)
Diestecopus Solier, 1848 (tropical Africa)
Drosochrus Erichson, 1843 (the Palearctic and tropical Africa)
Leichenum Dejean, 1834 (North America, the Palearctic, Indomalaya, Australasia, and Oceania)
Loensus R. Lucas, 1920 (tropical Africa and Indomalaya)
Micrantereus Solier, 1848 (the Palearctic and tropical Africa)
Nicandra Fairmaire, 1888 (tropical Africa)
Oncopteryx Gebien, 1943 (tropical Africa)
Pedinus Latreille, 1797 (the Palearctic and Indomalaya)
Piscicula Robiche, 2004 (tropical Africa)
Psectes Hesse, 1935 (tropical Africa)

References

"Pedinini 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.

Kamiński, Marcin; Lumen, Ryan; Kanda, Kojun; Iwan, Dariusz; et al. (2021). "Reevaluation of Blapimorpha and Opatrinae: addressing a major phylogeny-classification gap in darkling beetles (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: Blaptinae)". Systematic Entomology. 46: 140–156. doi:10.1111/syen.12453. S2CID 224888924.