Subtribe Tracheina Laporte, 1835

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• Trachisidae Laporte de Castelnau, F.L. 1835. Études entomologiqes ou descriptions d'insectes nouveaux et observations sur la synonymie, par M. F. L. de Laporte, Comte de Castelnau. Revue d'Entomologie (Caen) 3: 157-181 [166].

  Type genus:

   Trachys Fabricius, 1801 [by indication].

Introduction

Two genera comprise the Trachina: Trachys Fabricius and Habroloma C.G. Thomson. Habroloma has often been considered at the subgenus level under Trachys, but contemporary workers recognize both taxa as valid genera (Cobos 1979). The main features which distinguish these two genera are a more triangular body in Habroloma, while Trachys is generally more elongate-ovoid and the presence of a post-humeral carina in Habroloma, which is lacking in Trachys.

Both genera are exclusively leaf-mining as larvae and are widely distributed in the Old World. The last complete catalogue was by Obenberger (1937). The last revision of the Australian Trachina was by Carter (1928).

General References

Carter, H.J. 1928. Revision of the Australian species of the genera Curis, Neocuris and Trachys, together with notes and descriptions of new species of other Coleoptera. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 53(3): 270-290

Cobos, A. 1979. Revisión de la subfamilia Trachyinae a niveles supraespecíficos (Coleoptera, Buprestidae). Acta Entomologica Bohemoslovaca 76: 414-430

Laporte de Castelnau, F.L. 1835. Études entomologiqes ou descriptions d'insectes nouveaux et observations sur la synonymie, par M. F. L. de Laporte, Comte de Castelnau. Revue d'Entomologie (Caen) 3: 157-181

Laporte de Castelnau, F.L. 1835. Études entomologiqes ou descriptions d'insectes nouveaux et observations sur la synonymie, par M. F. L. de Laporte, Comte de Castelnau. Revue d'Entomologie (Caen) 3: 157-181 [166]

Obenberger, J. 1937. Buprestidae 6. pp. 1247-1714 in Junk, W. & Schenkling, S. (eds). Coleopterorum Catalogus. Berlin : W. Junk Vol. 157.

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