Toxicini

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: Toxicini
Genera: Calymmus – Cryphaeus – Cylindrosia – Diceroderes – Dysantes – Ilyxerus – Mychestes – Orcopagia – Ozolais – Phloeopsidius – Taiwanocryphaeus – Toxicum – Wattius
Name

Toxicini Lacordaire, 1859

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

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.