Adesmiini

{{Short description|Tribe of darkling beetles}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Adesmia ground beetle (50712).jpg | image_caption = ''Adesmia'', Israel | taxon = Adesmiini | authority = Lacordaire, 1859 }}

'''Adesmiini''' is a tribe of darkling beetles in the subfamily Pimeliinae of the family Tenebrionidae. There are about 11 genera in Adesmiini, found primarily in tropical Africa.<ref name=Bouchard2021/><ref name=Bousquet2018/><ref name=Bouchard2011/>

==Genera== These genera belong to the tribe Adesmiini:<ref name=Bouchard2021/> * ''Adesmia'' Fischer von Waldheim, 1822 (the Palearctic, tropical Africa, and Indomalaya) * ''Alogenius'' Gebien, 1910 (tropical Africa) * ''Epiphysa'' Dejean, 1834 (tropical Africa) * ''Eustolopus'' Gebien, 1938 (tropical Africa) * ''Metriopus'' Solier, 1835 (tropical Africa) * ''Onymacris'' Allard, 1885 (tropical Africa) * ''Orientocara'' Koch, 1952 (tropical Africa) * ''Physadesmia'' Penrith, 1979 (tropical Africa) * ''Renatiella'' Koch, 1944 (tropical Africa) * ''Stenocara'' Solier, 1835 (tropical Africa) * ''Stenodesia'' Reitter, 1916 (tropical Africa)

==References== {{Reflist|refs= <ref name=Bousquet2018> {{Cite journal | title = Catalogue of Tenebrionidae (Coleoptera) of North America | date = 2018 | last1 = Bousquet | first1 = Yves | last2 = Thomas | first2 = Donald B. | last3 = Bouchard | first3 = Patrice | last4 = Smith | first4 = Aaron D. | last5 = Aalbu | first5 = Rolf L. | last6 = Johnston | first6 = M. Andrew | last7 = Steiner | first7 = Warren E. Jr. | display-authors = 4 | journal = ZooKeys | issue = 728| pages = 1–455 | doi = 10.3897/zookeys.728.20602 | pmc=5799738 | pmid=29416389 | doi-access = free }}</ref>

<ref name=Bouchard2021> {{Cite journal | title = Review of genus-group names in the family Tenebrionidae (Insecta, Coleoptera) | date = 2021 | last1 = Bouchard | first1 = Patrice | last2 = Bousquet | first2 = Yves | last3 = Aalbu | first3 = Rolf L. | last4 = Alonso-Zarazaga | first4 = Miguel A. | last5 = Merkl | first5 = Ottó | last6 = Davies | first6 = Anthony E. | display-authors = 4 | journal = ZooKeys | issue = 1050 | pages = 1–633 | url = https://zookeys.pensoft.net/article/64217/ | doi = 10.3897/zookeys.1050.64217 | pmid = 34385881 | pmc = 8328949 | hdl = 10261/250214 | hdl-access = free | doi-access = free }}</ref>

<ref name=Bouchard2011> {{Cite journal | title = Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta) | date = 2011 | last1 = Bouchard | first1 = Patrice | last2 = Bousquet | first2 = Yves | last3 = Davies | first3 = Anthony E. | last4 = Alonso-Zarazaga | first4 = Miguel A. | last5 = Lawrence | first5 = John F. | last6 = Lyal | first6 = Chris H. C. | last7 = Newton | first7 = Alfred F. | last8 = Reid | first8 = Chris A. M. | last9 = Schmitt | first9 = Michael | last10 = Ślipiński | first10 = S. Adam | last11 = Smith | first11 = Andrew B. T. | display-authors = 4 | journal = ZooKeys | issue = 88| pages = 1–972 | url = https://zookeys.pensoft.net/articles.php?id=4001 | doi = 10.3897/zookeys.88.807 | pmc=3088472 | pmid=21594053 | doi-access = free }}</ref> }}

==Further reading== {{refbegin}} * {{Cite book | title = Classification of the Coleoptera of North America | date = 1861 | last1 = LeConte | first1 = J. L. | publisher = Smithsonian Institution | series = Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections| volume = 3| issue = 136 | isbn = 978-0665100550 | url = https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/85732 | doi = 10.5962/bhl.title.38459 }} * {{Cite book | title = American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea | date = 2002 | last1 = Somerby | first1 = Ronald E. | last2 = Thomas | first2 = Donald B. | last3 = Triplehorn | first3 = Charles A. | editor-last1 = Arnett | editor-first1 = Ross H. Jr. | editor-last2 = Thomas | editor-first2 = Michael C. | editor-last3 = Skelley | editor-first3 = Paul E. | editor-last4 = Frank | editor-first4 = J. Howard | publisher = CRC Press | chapter = Family 106: Tenebrionidae| pages = 463–509 | isbn = 978-0-8493-0954-0 }} {{refend}}

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