Blaptinae

Blaptinae
Blapstinus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Polyphaga
Infraorder: Cucujiformia
Family: Tenebrionidae
Subfamily:
Leach, 1815
Tribes
Diversity
at least 300 genera

Blaptinae is a subfamily of darkling beetles in the family Tenebrionidae. There are around 300 genera in Blaptinae, divided into 8 tribes.[1][2][3][4]

Based on morphological and molecular evidence, Kamiński et al. (2021) moved seven tribes from Tenebrioninae into the newly resurrected subfamily Blaptinae. In 2024, the tribe Dissonomini was added. The new classification has been widely accepted by scientific community[5][6][1] Currently, the subfamily contains 283 genera and about 4000 species.

Blaptinae is one of the most widespread and abundant groups of darkling beetles in arid regions around the world. In several desert ecosystems, members of this subfamily form a dominant part of the local invertebrate fauna—for example Gonopus tibialis (sandworm beetle) in Namib[7] or Parastizopus armaticeps in Kalahari[8].

Ovoviviparity has been documented in certain species of the tribe Platynotina[9], where females have been observed carrying fully developed first-instar larvae within their bursa copulatrix[10].

See also

References

  1. ^ a b Bouchard, Patrice; Bousquet, Yves; Aalbu, Rolf L.; Alonso-Zarazaga, Miguel A.; et al. (2021). "Review of genus-group names in the family Tenebrionidae (Insecta, Coleoptera)". ZooKeys (1050): 1–633. doi:10.3897/zookeys.1050.64217. hdl:10261/250214. PMC 8328949. PMID 34385881.
  2. ^ Bousquet, Yves; Thomas, Donald B.; Bouchard, Patrice; Smith, Aaron D.; et al. (2018). "Catalogue of Tenebrionidae (Coleoptera) of North America". ZooKeys (728): 1–455. doi:10.3897/zookeys.728.20602. PMC 5799738. PMID 29416389.
  3. ^ Bouchard, Patrice; Bousquet, Yves; Davies, Anthony E.; Alonso-Zarazaga, Miguel A.; et al. (2011). "Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta)". ZooKeys (88): 1–972. doi:10.3897/zookeys.88.807. PMC 3088472. PMID 21594053.
  4. ^ Kamiński, Marcin J.; Rork, Adam M.; Drake, Martha E.; Replogle, Charla R.; Lumen, Ryan; Wirth, Christopher C.; Kanda, Kojun; Smith, Aaron D. (2024-03-30). "Dissonomini Medvedev, 1968: The Eighth Tribe of the Subfamily Blaptinae (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae)". Annales Zoologici. 74 (1). doi:10.3161/00034541ANZ2024.74.1.009. ISSN 0003-4541.
  5. ^ Nabozhenko, Maxim V.; Chigray, Ivan A.; Ntatsopoulos, Konstantinos; Papadopoulou, Anna (2022-03-18). "A key to Russian and Eastern European species of Blaps Fabricius, 1775 (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: Blaptinae) with the description of a new species from the North Caucasus supported by morphological and molecular data". Zootaxa. 5116 (2): 267–291. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5116.2.5. ISSN 1175-5334.
  6. ^ Kamiński, Marcin; Lumen, Ryan; Kanda, Kojun; Iwan, Dariusz; et al. (2021). "Reevaluation of Blapimorpha and Opatrinae: addressing a major phylogeny-classification gap in darkling beetles (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: Blaptinae)". Systematic Entomology. 46: 140–156. doi:10.1111/syen.12453. S2CID 224888924.
  7. ^ Endrödy-Younga, Sebastian (2000). Revision of the subtribe Gonopina (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae, Opatrinae, Platynotini). Transvaal Museum.
  8. ^ Rasa, OAE. "Evidence for subsociality and division of labour in a desert tenebrionid beetle Parastiopus armaticeps Peringuey". Naturwissenschaften. 77: 591–592.
  9. ^ Lumen, Ryan; Kamiński, Marcin J (2024-06-03). "Revision of the darkling beetle genus Eurynotus (Blaptinae: Platynotini) and new records of ovovivipary in Tenebrionidae". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 201 (2): 358–386. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlad146. ISSN 0024-4082.
  10. ^ Tschinkel, Walter R. "Ovoviviparity in some tenebrionid beetles". Coleopterists Bulletin. 1978 (32): 315–317.

Further reading

  • LeConte, J. L. (1981) [1861]. Classification of the Coleoptera of North America. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. Vol. 3. Smithsonian Institution. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.38459. ISBN 978-0665100550.
  • Somerby, Ronald E.; Thomas, Donald B.; Triplehorn, Charles A. (2002). "Family 106: Tenebrionidae". In Arnett, Ross H. Jr.; Thomas, Michael C.; Skelley, Paul E.; Frank, J. Howard (eds.). American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press. pp. 463–509. ISBN 978-0-8493-0954-0.
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