Palorini Explained

Palorini is a tribe of darkling beetles in the family Tenebrionidae. There are about 12 genera in Palorini.

Genera

These genera belong to the tribe Palorini:

• Astalbus Fairmaire, 1900 (tropical Africa)
• Austropalorus Halstead, 1967 (Australasia)
• Eutermicola Lea, 1916 (Australasia)
• Palorinus Blair, 1930 (Indomalaya and Australasia)
• Paloropsis Masumoto & Grimm, 2004 (Indomalaya)
• Palorus Mulsant, 1854 (North America, the Palearctic, Indomalaya, Australasia, and Oceania)
• Platycotylus Olliff, 1883 (tropical Africa, Indomalaya, and Australasia)
• Prolabrus Fairmaire, 1897 (tropical Africa)
• Pseudeba Blackburn, 1903 (Australasia)
• Ulomina Baudi di Selve, 1876 (North America, the Palearctic, Indomalaya, Australasia, and Oceania)
• Ulomotypus Broun, 1886 (Australasia)
• † Vabole Alekseev & Nabozhenko, 2015

Further reading

• Book: Classification of the Coleoptera of North America. 1861. LeConte . J. L.. Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. 3. 136. 978-0665100550. 10.5962/bhl.title.38459.
• Book: American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. 2002. Somerby . Ronald E.. Thomas . Donald B.. Triplehorn . Charles A.. Arnett . Ross H. Jr.. Thomas . Michael C.. Skelley . Paul E.. Frank . J. Howard. CRC Press. Family 106: Tenebrionidae. 463–509. 978-0-8493-0954-0.