Tribe Tracheini 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].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Bouchard, P., Bousquet, Y., Davies, A.E., Alonso-Zarazaga, M.A., Lawrence, J.F., Lyal, C.H.C., Newton, A.F., Reid, C.A.M., Schmitt, M., Ślipiński, S.A. & Smith, A.B.T. 2011. Family-Group names in Coleoptera (Insecta). ZooKeys 88(Special issue): 1–972 [289]

• Holynski, R. 1993. A reassessment of the internal classification of the Buprestidae Leach (Coleoptera). Crystal, series Zoologica 1: 1-42 [32]

Introduction

The traditional concept of leaf-mining Buprestidae relationships, except for Paratrachys Saunders (Polycestini: Paratrachina), has presumed that the similar cuneiform adult morphology related all of these groups into a single higher taxon, Trachini. However, as more information is compiled about larval morphology, host associations, and pupation strategies, it is becoming likely that Trachini is a polyphyletic group, comprised of convergent forms which have only been combined because there is no way to find the origin of extant taxa within the more basal portions of what might be four, or more, convergent lineages.

Of the four subtribes currently combined into the Trachini, only the nominate taxon, Trachina, occurs in Australia. The Pachyschelina is predominantly a New World taxon, but there are some species of Pachyschelus Solier that are found in tropical Asia. The other two taxa: Brachina and Leiopleuriina are restricted to the New World.

The current definition of Trachini is only part of the subtribe Traches used by Théry (1929). The most modern approaches to the classification of leaf-mining buprestids are by Cobos (1979) and Holynski (1993).

General References

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

Holynski, R. 1993. A reassessment of the internal classification of the Buprestidae Leach (Coleoptera). Crystal, series Zoologica 1: 1-42

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

Théry, A. 1929. Classification. pp. 266-275 in Carter, H.J. A check list of the Australian Buprestidae. With tables and keys to sub-families, tribes, and genera (by A. Théry). The Australian Zoologist 5(4): 265-304 [Date published 24 Mar 1929]

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