Toxicini

Short description: Tribe of beetles

Toxicini

Cryphaeus gazella, Indonesia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Arthropoda
Class:  | Insecta
Order:  | Coleoptera
Infraorder:  | Cucujiformia
Family:  | Tenebrionidae
Subfamily:  | Tenebrioninae
Tribe:  | Toxicini
Oken, 1843
Subtribes

* Dysantina Gebien, 1922
* Nycteropina Lacordaire, 1859
* Toxicina Oken, 1843

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

1. ↑ 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. PMID 34385881. PMC 8328949. https://zookeys.pensoft.net/article/64217/.
2. ↑ 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. PMID 21594053. PMC 3088472. https://zookeys.pensoft.net/articles.php?id=4001.

## Further reading

* LeConte, J. L. (1861). Classification of the Coleoptera of North America. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. 3. Smithsonian Institution. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.38459. ISBN 978-0665100550. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/85732.
* Somerby, Ronald E.; Thomas, Donald B.; Triplehorn, Charles A. (2002). "Family 106: Tenebrionidae". American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press. pp. 463–509. ISBN 978-0-8493-0954-0.

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