Triboliini Explained

Triboliini is a tribe of darkling beetles in the family Tenebrionidae. There are about 10 genera in Triboliini.

Genera

These genera belong to the tribe Triboliini:

• Aesymnus Champion, 1886 (the Neotropics)
• Hypogena Dejean, 1834 (North America and the Neotropics)
• Latheticus C.O. Waterhouse, 1880 (North America, the Palearctic, Indomalaya, and Oceania)
• Lyphia Mulsant & Rey, 1859 (North America, tropical Africa, Indomalaya, Australasia, and Oceania)
• Metulosonia Bates, 1873 (the Neotropics)
• Mycotrogus Horn, 1870 (North America and the Neotropics)
• Platybolium Blair, 1938 (Indomalaya)
• Spelaebiosis Bousquet & Bouchard, 2018 (the Neotropics)
• Tribolium W.S. MacLeay, 1825 (flour beetles) (worldwide)
• Xenogloeus Wollaston, 1861 (tropical Africa)

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.