Tritomini

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: Cucujoidea

Familia: Erotylidae
Subfamilia: Erotylinae
Tribus: Tritomini
Genera: Altisessor – Cubyrus – Cyrtomorphus – Epytus – Hirsutotriplax – Ischyrus – Lybanodes – Mycotretus – Neoxestus – Notaepytus – Pseudamblyopus – Pseudischyrus – Scelidopetalon – Triplax – Tritoma – Xalpirta
Name

Tritomini Curtis, 1834

Synonyms

Tritominae

References

Template:Curtis, 1834

Jia, N., Su, X., Liu, J., Lu, W-C., Ren, G-D., Li, J., Wang, Y-Y. & Zhao, Y-C. 2019. Taxonomy of Cyrtomorphus Lacordaire (Coleoptera, Erotylidae, Tritomini) from China. ZooKeys, 886: 155–161. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.886.37991 Open access Reference page.
Liu, J., Lu, W-C., Zang, H-M. & Li, J. 2021. First record of the genus Pseudamblyopus (Coleoptera, Erotylidae) in China, with description of a new species. Zookeys 1040: 25–31. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1040.59547 Open access Reference page.
Pecci-Maddalena, I.S. de C. & Lopes-Andrade, C. 2017. Redescription of two species and proposal of a new synonym in the genus Mycotretus Lacordaire, 1842 (Coleoptera: Erotylidae: Tritomini). Zootaxa 4282(1): 147–165. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4282.1.9. Reference page.
Pecci-Maddalena, I.S. de C., Lopes-Andrade, C. & Skelley, P.E. 2019. Xalpirta mauryi sp. nov. (Coleoptera: Erotylidae: Tritomini) from Southeast Brazil. Zootaxa 4629(3): 342–350. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4629.3.2. Reference page.
Skelley, P.E. 2009: Pleasing fungus beetles of the West Indies (Coleoptera: Erotylidae: Erotylinae). Insecta Mundi, (0082): 1–94. PDF

Tritomini is a tribe of pleasing fungus beetles in the family Erotylidae. There are about 7 genera and at least 30 described species in Tritomini.[1][2]
Tritoma sanguinipennis

Genera

These seven genera belong to the tribe Tritomini:[2]

Haematochiton Gorham, 1888
Hirsutotriplax Skelley, 1993
Ischyrus Lacordaire, 1842
Mycotretus Lacordaire, 1842
Pseudischyrus Casey, 1916
Triplax Herbst, 1793
Tritoma Fabricius, 1775

References

"Tritomini Tribe Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-03-05.

"Tritomini Overview". Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved 2018-03-05.

Further reading

Blatchley, W.S. (1910). An illustrated descriptive catalogue of the Coleoptera, beetles (exclusive of the Rhynchophora) known to occur in Indiana. Nature Pub.
Boyle, W. Wayne (1956). "A revision of the Erotylidae of America North of Mexico (Coleoptera)". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 110 (2): 61–172.
Crotch, G.R. (1873). Check list of the Coleoptera of America, north of Mexico. Naturalists' Agency. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.38811.
Evans, Arthur V.; Hogue, James N. (2006). Field Guide to Beetles of California. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0520246577.
Klimaszewski, Jan; Watt, J.Charles (1997). "Coleoptera: family-group review and keys to identification". Fauna of New Zealand. 37.
Lawrence, J.F.; Newton Jr., A.F. (1995). Pakaluk, James; Slipinski, Stanislaw Adam (eds.). Families and subfamilies of Coleoptera (with selected genera, notes, references and data on family-group names). Biology, Phylogeny, and Classification of Coleoptera: Papers Celebrating the 80th Birthday of Roy A. Crowson. Vol. 2. Muzeum i Instytut Zoologii PAN. pp. 779–1006. ISBN 83-85192-34-4.
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 0665100558.
Leng, Charles W. (1920). Catalogue of the Coleoptera of America, North of Mexico. John D. Sherman, Jr. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.8777.
Leschen, Richard A.B. (2003). "Erotylidae (Insecta: Coleoptera: Cucujoidea): phylogeny and review". Fauna of New Zealand. 47.
Lord, Nathan Patrick; Hartley, Christopher S.; Lawrence, John F.; McHugh, Joseph V.; et al. (2010). "Phylogenetic analysis of the minute brown scavenger beetles (Coleoptera: Latridiidae), and recognition of a new beetle family, Akalyptoischiidae fam. n. (Coleoptera: Cucujoidea)". Systematic Entomology. 35 (4): 753–763. doi:10.1111/j.1365-3113.2010.00532.x. ISSN 0307-6970.
Skelley, Paul E.; McHugh, Joseph V. (2002). "Family 87. Erotylidae Leach 1815". In Arnett Jr., R. Jr.; Thomas, M.; Skelley, P.; Frank, J. (eds.). American Beetles vol. 2, Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press. pp. 348–355. ISBN 0-8493-0954-9.
White, Richard E. (1998) [1983]. A Field Guide to the Beetles of North America (Peterson Field Guides). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN 0395910897.