Eupomphini

Eupomphini is a tribe of blister beetles in the family Meloidae. There are about 7 genera and more than 20 described species in Eupomphini.^[1][2][3]

Tegrodera latecincta

Eupomphini
Cysteodemus armatus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Family:	Meloidae
Subfamily:	Meloinae
Tribe:	Eupomphini LeConte, 1862

Genera

These seven genera belong to the tribe Eupomphini:

• Cordylospasta Horn, 1875
• Cysteodemus LeConte, 1851 (desert spider beetles)
• Eupompha LeConte, 1858
• Megetra LeConte, 1859
• Phodaga LeConte, 1858
• Pleuropasta Wellman, 1909
• Tegrodera LeConte, 1851 (iron cross blister beetles)

References

1. "Eupomphini Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
2. "Eupomphini tribe Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
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. Bibcode:2011ZooK...88....1B. doi:10.3897/zookeys.88.807. PMC 3088472. PMID 21594053.

Further reading

• Pinto, J. D.; Bologna, M. A. (1999). "The New World genera of Meloidae (Coleoptera): a key and synopsis". Journal of Natural History. 33 (4): 569–620. Bibcode:1999JNatH..33..569P. doi:10.1080/002229399300254.
• Bologna, Marco A.; Pinto, John D. (2001). "Phylogenetic studies of Meloidae (Coleoptera), with emphasis on the evolution of phoresy". Systematic Entomology. 26 (1): 33–72. Bibcode:2001SysEn..26...33B. doi:10.1046/j.1365-3113.2001.00132.x.
• 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.
• Lobl, I.; Smetana, A., eds. (2013). Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Volume 5: Tenebrionoidea. Apollo Books. ISBN 978-90-04-26090-0.
• LeConte, J. L. (1861). Classification of the Coleoptera of North America. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. Vol. 3. Smithsonian Institution. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.38459. ISBN 978-0665100550.

External links

• Media related to Eupomphini at Wikimedia Commons