Eupomphini

Tribe of beetles

Eupomphini
Cysteodemus armatus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Meloidae
Subfamily: Meloinae
Tribe: Eupomphini
LeConte, 1862

Eupomphini is a tribe of blister beetles in the family Meloidae. There are about 7 genera and more than 20 described species in Eupomphini.[1][2][3]

Tegrodera latecincta

Genera

These seven genera belong to the tribe Eupomphini:

  • Cordylospasta Horn, 1875
  • Cysteodemus LeConte, 1851 (desert spider beetles)
  • Eupompha LeConte, 1858
  • Megetra LeConte, 1859
  • Phodaga LeConte, 1858
  • Pleuropasta Wellman, 1909
  • Tegrodera LeConte, 1851 (iron cross blister beetles)

References

  1. ^ "Eupomphini Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
  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. Bibcode:2011ZooK...88....1B. doi:10.3897/zookeys.88.807. PMC 3088472. PMID 21594053.

Further reading

  • Pinto, J. D.; Bologna, M. A. (1999). "The New World genera of Meloidae (Coleoptera): a key and synopsis". Journal of Natural History. 33 (4): 569–620. Bibcode:1999JNatH..33..569P. doi:10.1080/002229399300254.
  • Bologna, Marco A.; Pinto, John D. (2001). "Phylogenetic studies of Meloidae (Coleoptera), with emphasis on the evolution of phoresy". Systematic Entomology. 26 (1): 33–72. Bibcode:2001SysEn..26...33B. doi:10.1046/j.1365-3113.2001.00132.x.
  • 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.
  • Lobl, I.; Smetana, A., eds. (2013). Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Volume 5: Tenebrionoidea. Apollo Books. ISBN 978-90-04-26090-0.
  • 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.
  • Media related to Eupomphini at Wikimedia Commons
Taxon identifiers
Eupomphini
  • Wikidata: Q21226031
  • Wikispecies: Eupomphini
  • BioLib: 790400
  • BugGuide: 381010
  • ITIS: 731343


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