Amphidorini

Amphidorini
Eleodes subnitens
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Tenebrionidae
Subfamily: Blaptinae
Tribe: Amphidorini
LeConte, 1862

Amphidorini is a tribe of darkling beetles in the family Tenebrionidae. There are six genera in Amphidorini.[1][2][3][4]

In research by Kamiński et al. published in 2021, Amphidorini and six other tribes were moved from Tenebrioninae 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.[5][3]

In 2022, Johnston et al. removed the South American genus Nycterinus from Amiphidorini, it is now placed in incertae sedis within Tenebrinoninae.[6]

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  6. ^ Johnston, M. Andrew; Smith, Aaron D.; Kanda, Kojun; Kamiński, Marcin J.; Naverette, Priscila; Sanchez, Lucio A.; Aalbu, Rolf L.; Miller, Kelly B.; Wheeler, Quentin D.; Franz, Nico M. (March 2022). "Testing the Taxonomy of Amphidorini Leconte (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae): A Molecular Phylogeny Leveraging Museum Sequencing". Annales Zoologici. 72 (1): 49–68. doi:10.3161/00034541ANZ2022.72.1.003. ISSN 0003-4541.