Drilini Explained

Drilini is a tribe of beetles known commonly as the false firefly beetles, in the family Elateridae.^[1]

Systematics

In 2011, this lineage, formerly treated as a family, was transferred to the family Elateridae as the tribe Drilini.^[2] Two former genera, Pseudeuanoma and Euanoma, were moved to the click beetle subfamily Omalisinae.^[3]

A 2019 study presented the first densely sampled molecular phylogeny of Drilini based on nuclear and mitochondrial markers, recovering 5 major clades well supported by morphology along with several new genera and species.^[4]

Notes and References

1. Watson, L. and M. J. Dallwitz, M.J. 2003 onwards. Drilidae. British insects: the families of Coleoptera. Version: 25 July 2012.
2. Kundrata, R., Kobieluszova, L. and L. Bocak. (2014). A review of Drilini (Coleoptera: Elateridae: Agrypninae) of the Northern Levant, with description of a new species from Syria and a key to Levantine species. Zootaxa 3755(5), 457-69.
3. Kundrata, R. and L. Bocak. (2011). The phylogeny and limits of Elateridae (Insecta, Coleoptera): is there a common tendency of click beetles to soft-bodiedness and neoteny? Zoologica Scripta 40, 364–78.
4. Robin Kundrata . Ladislav Bocak . Molecular phylogeny reveals the gradual evolutionary transition to soft-bodiedness in click-beetles and identifies sub-Saharan Africa as a cradle of diversity for Drilini (Coleoptera: Elateridae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 187. 2. 413–452. 2019. 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlz033.