Tribe Coraebini Bedel, 1921

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• Coraebini Bedel, L. 1921. Faune des coléoptères du bassin de la Seine. Volume 4, Fasc. 2, sous-ordre Serricornia (Sternoxia). Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 90: 165-362 [170].

  Type genus:

   Coraebus Gory & Laporte, 1839 [by indication].

  Secondary source:

   Kubán, V., Majer, K. & Kolibác, J. 2001. Classification of the tribe Coraebini Bedel, 1921 (Coleoptera, Buprestidae, Agrilinae). Acta Musei Moraviae, Scientiae biologicae (Brno) 85: 185-287 [197].

Introduction

The fourteen genera that comprise the Coraebini make it the most diverse higher taxon in the Australian buprestid fauna. The very recent phylogenetic revision of this tribe by Kubán et al. (2001) has yielded a subtribal scheme of which six are represented in Australia: Ethoniina, Cisseina, Amorphosomina, Coraebina, Toxoscelina and Synechocerina. Four genera from Australia were not placed in the study: Alcinous Kerremans, Paracephala Saunders, Meliboethion Obenberger and Dinocephalia Obenberger. The latter three genera were revised by Bellamy (1988) and the Australian genera of this tribe were subjected to a phylogenetic analysis.

Alcinous Kerremans is represented by only two species, both occuring along the east coast of New South Wales and Queensland (Williams 1983).

The other four genera, Amorphosoma Laporte, Coraebus Gory & Laporte, Polyonychus Chevrolat and Toxoscelus Deyrolle, are of wider Old World or Oriental Region distribution. The single species each of Coraebus and Polyonychus are possibly one-time introductions or mislabelled specimens which do not belong to the native Australian fauna. The presence of Sambus and Toxoscelus is confirmed by recent determinations and descriptions by Bellamy & Peterson (2000).

General References

Bellamy, C.L. 1987. A revision of the genus Synechocera Deyrolle (Coleoptera, Buprestidae, Agrilinae). Invertebrate Taxonomy 1(1): 17-34

Bellamy, C.L. 1988. The classification and phylogeny of the Australian Coroebini, Bedel, with a revision of the genera Paracephala, Meliboeithon and Dinocephalia (Coleoptera: Buprestridae: Agrilinae). Invertebrate Taxonomy 2: 413–453

Bellamy, C.L. & Peterson, M. 2000. Contributions to the taxonomy of Australian Buprestidae (Coleoptera) Part II. Three new species and a new coraebine generic member of the Australian fauna. Folia Heyrovskyana 8(2): 101–108 [31 Oct. 2000]

Carter, H.J. 1923. Revision of the genera Ethon, Cisseis and their allies (Buprestidae). Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 48(2): 159-176

Kubán, V., Majer, K. & Kolibác, J. 2001. Classification of the tribe Coraebini Bedel, 1921 (Coleoptera, Buprestidae, Agrilinae). Acta Musei Moraviae, Scientiae biologicae (Brno) 85: 185-287

Williams, G.A. 1983. Observations on the genus Alcinous Deyrolle (Coleoptera: Buprestidae). Victorian Naturalist 100: 37-39

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