{{Short description|Tribe of beetles}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = | image_caption = | taxon = Heptophyllini | authority = Medvedev, 1951 | synonyms = }} '''Heptophyllini''' is a tribe of scarab beetles in the family Scarabaeidae.<ref name=":1">{{cite web |last= Schoolmeesters|first= P.|date= 2025|title= ''Heptophyllini'' at Catalogue of Life|url=https://www.catalogueoflife.org/data/taxon/KVF|website= World Scarabaeidae Database (version 2025-10-07). In O. Bánki, Y. Roskov, M. Döring, G. Ower, D. R. Hernández Robles, C. A. Plata Corredor, T. Stjernegaard Jeppesen, A. Örn, T. Pape, D. Hobern, S. Garnett, H. Little, R. E. DeWalt, J. Miller, T. Orrell, & R. Aalbu, Catalogue of Life (2025-10-10 XR).|location= Amsterdam, Netherlands|publisher= Catalogue of Life Foundation|access-date=May 23, 2026}}</ref>
== Taxonomy == The tribe Heptophyllini is one of the insufficiently known and also poorly defined groups of the Old World Melolonthinae. The tribe was proposed by Medvedev to accommodate four genera (''Heptophylla'', ''Hexataenius'', ''Hilyotrogus'' and ''Toxospathius''). Medvedev argued out that Heptophyllini occupies a certain intermediate position between the tribes Melolonthini and Rhizotrogini. However, this opinion was weakly supported by morphological data. Kalinina examined the larval stages of ''Hilyotrogus bicoloreus'' in detail and found no differences from the larvae of Rhizotrogini, but retained Heptophyllini as a valid tribe. Although weakly supported, the tribe Heptophyllini has been considered valid in the last 50 years. Two additional genera (''Laotrichia'' and ''Taiwanotrichia''), were described, and the total number of taxa assigned to Heptophyllini now exceeds 50.<ref name=":2">{{cite journal|last1=Bezděk|first1=A.|last2=Král|first2=D.|last3=Luo|first3=Y. P.|last4=Lu|first4=Y. Y.|date= 2025|title= Heptophylla gongshana Bezděk & Král, n. sp. from China (Yunnan) and a Checklist of the Tribe Heptophyllini (Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae).|url= https://doi.org/10.3390/taxonomy5040052|journal=Taxonomy|volume=5|issue=52|pages= 1-20.|access-date= May 23, 2026}} {{Creative Commons text attribution notice|cc=by4}}</ref>
==Genera== The following genera are recognised in the tribe Heptophyllini: *''Heptophylla'' <small>Motschulsky, 1857</small> *''Hexataenius'' <small>Fairmaire, 1891</small> *''Hilyotrogus'' <small>Fairmaire, 1886</small> *''Laotrichia'' <small>Keith, 2007</small> *''Taiwanotrichia'' <small>Kobayashi, 1990</small> *''Toxospathius'' <small>Fairmaire, 1878</small>
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Category:Beetle tribes Category:Heptophyllini Category:Melolonthinae
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