Tribe Tenebrionini Latreille, 1802

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• Tenebrionites Latreille, P.A. 1802. Histoire Naturelle, Générale et Particulière des Crustacés et des Insectes. Ouvrage faisant suite à l’histoire naturelle générale et particulière, composée par Leclerc de Buffon, et rédigée par C.S. Sonnini, membre de plusieurs sociétés savantes. Familles naturelles des genres. Tome troisième. Paris : F. Dufart xii + 13–467 + [1] pp. [An "X" (title page = 1802)] [165, 170] [name made available under Art. 11.7.2 (Tenebrionidae: Kirby 1819a) as Ténébrionites.].

  Type genus:

   Tenebrio Linnaeus, 1758.

  Secondary source:

   Kirby, W. 1819. A century of insects, including several new genera described from his cabinet. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 12: 375-453 [dated 1818] (Tenebrionidae).
• Biuini Skopin, N.G. 1978. Tenebrionidae. pp. 223-266 in Klausnitzer, B. (ed.). Ordnung Coleoptera (Larven). The Hague : Dr W.Junk. [224] [incorrect original spelling, should be Biini; Biini is preoccupied in Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae].

  Type genus:

   Bius Dejean, 1834.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Bouchard, P., Lawrence, J.F., Davies, A.E. & Newton, A.F. 2005. Synoptic classification of the world Tenebrionidae (Insecta: Coleoptera) with a review of the family-group names. Annales Zoologici, Warszawa 4 55: 499-530 [508] (Ténébrionites Latreille; Biuini Skopin)

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