Opatrini

Opatrini

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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