Toxicini Explained

Toxicini is a tribe of darkling beetles in the family Tenebrionidae. There are about 17 genera in Toxicini.

Genera

These genera belong to the tribe Toxicini:

• Calymmus Montrouzier, 1860 (Australasia)
• Chalcostylus Fairmaire, 1898 (tropical Africa)
• Cryphaeus Klug, 1833 (the Palearctic, tropical Africa, Indomalaya, and Australasia)
• Cylindrosia Gebien, 1922 (tropical Africa)
• Diceroderes Solier, 1841 (the Neotropics)
• Dysantes Pascoe, 1869 (tropical Africa and Indomalaya)
• Epitoxicum Bates, 1873 (Indomalaya)
• Ilyxerus Pascoe, 1866 (Australasia)
• Macellocerus Solier, 1848 (tropical Africa)
• Mychestes Pascoe, 1870 (Australasia)
• Nycteropus Klug, 1833 (tropical Africa)
• Opostirus Kirsch, 1865 (the Neotropics)
• Orcopagia Pascoe, 1868 (Australasia)
• Ozolais Pascoe, 1866 (the Neotropics)
• Taiwanocryphaeus Masumoto, 1996 (Indomalaya)
• Toxicum Latreille, 1802 (the Palearctic, Indomalaya, and Australasia)
• Wattius Kaszab, 1982 (the Neotropics)

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.