Drilini

Drilini is a tribe of beetles known commonly as the false firefly beetles, in the family Elateridae.[1]

Drilini
Drilus flavescens (male)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Coleoptera
Family:
Elateridae
Subfamily:
Agrypninae
Tribe:
Drilini

Blanchard, 1845
Genera
  • Drilus Olivier, 1790
  • Malacogaster Bassi, 1833
  • Paradrilus Kiesenwetter, 1866
  • Selasia Laporte, 1836

Systematics

In 2011, this lineage, formerly treated as a family, was transferred to the family Elateridae as the tribe Drilini.[2] Two former genera, Pseudeuanoma and Euanoma, were moved to the Omalisidae.[3]

A 2019 study presented the first densely sampled molecular phylogeny of Drilini based on nuclear and mitochondrial markers, recovering 5 major clades well supported by morphology along with several new genera and species.[4]

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References
  1. Watson, L. and M. J. Dallwitz, M.J. 2003 onwards. Drilidae. Archived 21 May 2013 at the Wayback Machine British insects: the families of Coleoptera. Version: 25 July 2012.
  2. Kundrata, R., Kobieluszova, L. and L. Bocak. (2014). A review of Drilini (Coleoptera: Elateridae: Agrypninae) of the Northern Levant, with description of a new species from Syria and a key to Levantine species. Zootaxa 3755(5), 457-69.
  3. Kundrata, R. and L. Bocak. (2011). The phylogeny and limits of Elateridae (Insecta, Coleoptera): is there a common tendency of click beetles to soft-bodiedness and neoteny? Zoologica Scripta 40, 364–78.
  4. Robin Kundrata; Ladislav Bocak (2019). "Molecular phylogeny reveals the gradual evolutionary transition to soft-bodiedness in click-beetles and identifies sub-Saharan Africa as a cradle of diversity for Drilini (Coleoptera: Elateridae)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 187 (2): 413–452. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlz033.
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