Blaptini is a tribe of
darkling beetle
Darkling beetle is the common name for members of the beetle family Tenebrionidae. The number of species in the Tenebrionidae is estimated at more than 20,000 and the family is cosmopolitan in distribution.
Taxonomy
''Tenebrio'' is the Latin ge ...
s in the family
Tenebrionidae
Darkling beetle is the common name for members of the beetle family Tenebrionidae. The number of species in the Tenebrionidae is estimated at more than 20,000 and the family is cosmopolitan in distribution.
Taxonomy
''Tenebrio'' is the Latin ge ...
. There are more than 30 genera in Blaptini.
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In research by Kamiński et al. published in 2021, Blaptini and six other tribes were moved from ]Tenebrioninae
Tenebrioninae is the largest subfamily of the darkling beetles (Tenebrionidae), containing flour beetles, among others. Tenebrioninae contains more than 20 tribes.
Description
Adults
Adults are robust, mid-sized beetles that typically have ...
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.[
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Genera
These genera belong to the tribe Blaptini:
* '' Ablapsis'' Reitter, 1887 (the Palearctic)
* '' Agnaptoria'' Reitter, 1887 (the Palearctic)
* '' Asidoblaps'' Fairmaire, 1886 (the Palearctic and Indomalaya)
* '' Belousovia'' G.S. Medvedev, 2007 (the Palearctic)
* ''Blaps
''Blaps'' is a genus of darkling beetles in the family Tenebrionidae. There are more than 30 described species in ''Blaps'', the genus being most commonly found in Eurasia and Australia, with occasional sightings elsewhere in the world.
Speci ...
'' Fabricius, 1775 (North America, tropical Africa, Indomalaya, Australasia, and Oceania)
* '' Blaptogonia'' G.S. Medvedev, 1998 (the Palearctic and Indomalaya)
* '' Caraboblaps'' Bauer, 1921*
* '' Coelocnemodes'' Bates, 1879 (Indomalaya)
* '' Colasia'' Koch, 1965 (the Palearctic)
* '' Dila'' Fischer von Waldheim, 1844 (the Palearctic)
* '' Dilablaps'' Bogatchev, 1976 (the Palearctic)
* '' Gnaptor'' Brullé, 1831 (the Palearctic)
* '' Gnaptorina'' Reitter, 1887 (the Palearctic and Indomalaya)
* '' Holoblaps'' Bauer, 1921*
* '' Hoplitoblaps'' Fairmaire, 1889 (Indomalaya)
* ''Itagonia
''Itagonia'' is a genus of beetles in the family Tenebrionidae. The majority of species are found in Southwest China, but two are found in the more central and northern parts of the country, from Gansu to Hebei and Inner Mongolia
Inner Mongol ...
'' Reitter, 1887 (the Palearctic)
* '' Medvedevia'' Chigray, 2019 (the Palearctic)
* '' Medvedevoblaps'' Bouchard & Bousquet, 2021 (the Palearctic)
* '' Montagona'' G.S. Medvedev, 1998 (the Palearctic and Indomalaya)
* '' Nalepa'' Reitter, 1887 (the Palearctic)
* '' Nepalindia'' G.S. Medvedev, 1998 (Indomalaya)
* '' Periblaps'' Bauer, 1921*
* '' Prosodes'' Eschscholtz, 1829 (the Palearctic and Indomalaya)
* '' Protoblaps'' Bauer, 1921*
* '' Pseudognaptorina'' Kaszab, 1977 (the Palearctic and Indomalaya)
* '' Remipedella'' Semenov, 1907 (the Palearctic)
* '' Sintagona'' G.S. Medvedev, 1998 (the Palearctic)
* '' Tagona'' Fischer von Waldheim, 1820 (the Palearctic)
* '' Tagonoides'' Fairmaire, 1886 (the Palearctic)
* '' Thaioblaps'' Masumoto, 1989 (Indomalaya)
* '' Thaumatoblaps'' Kaszab & G.S. Medvedev, 1984 (the Palearctic)
* '' Viettagona'' G.S. Medvedev & Merkl, 2003 (Indomalaya)
References
Further reading
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Tenebrionoidea
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