Opatrini

Opatrini
A Gonocephalum "Darkling beetle" viewed from above
Gonocephalum adpressiforme
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Tenebrionidae
Subfamily: Tenebrioninae
Tribe: Opatrini
Brullé, 1832

Opatrini is a tribe of darkling beetles (Tenebrionidae) in the subfamily Tenebrioninae.

Selected genera

  • Adavius
  • Ammobius
  • Anemia
  • Clitobius
  • Dilamus
  • Falsocaedius
  • Gonocephalum
  • Hadrodes
  • Hadrus
  • Helenomelas
  • Lobodera
  • Melanesthes
  • Melanimon Steven, 1829
  • Mesomorphus
  • Neopachypterus Bouchardt, Lobl & Merkl, 2007 (formerly Pachypterus Lucas, 1846 (non Swainson, 1839: preoccupied))
  • Opatroides
  • Opatrum
  • Penthicus
  • Platynosum
  • Polycoelogastridium
  • Prodilamus
  • Psammestus
  • Pseudoammobius
  • Pseudolamus
  • Pseudoleichenum
  • Scleron
  • Scleropatroides
  • Scleropatrum
  • Sinorus
  • Tarphiophasis

Eupachypterus is a fossil genus of Opatrini, known from amber found in Ypresian deposits of France dating from more than 50 million years ago. It was already quite similar to some living Opatriini, such as Neopachypterus and Pseudolamus.

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