Cnemeplatiini

Jacquelin du Val, 1861

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Cnemeplatiini is a tribe of darkling beetles within the Pimeliinae. The tribe comprises approximately nine distributed across multiple biogeographic regions including the Palearctic, Indomalaya, tropical Africa, Australasia, and the Americas. Members are classified in the Tenebrionidae, a large and diverse group of beetles commonly known as darkling beetles.

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Pronunciation

How to pronounce Cnemeplatiini: /nɛˌmɛpˈlatiː.ɪnaɪ/

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Identification

Members of Cnemeplatiini can be distinguished from other Pimeliinae tribes by tribal-level morphological characters established in taxonomic revisions, though specific diagnostic features require examination. The Alaudes, within this tribe, has been subject to recent revision and includes identifiable by detailed morphological characters described in taxonomic literature.

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Distribution

The tribe has a broad, disjunct distribution spanning multiple continents. Cnemeplatia occurs in the Palearctic, tropical Africa, and Indomalaya; Alaudes in North America; Actizeta in New Zealand; Durandius, Rondoniella, and Lepidocnemeplatia in Indomalaya; Lepidocnemeplatia also in North America and the Neotropics; Philhammus in the Palearctic and tropical Africa; and Thorictosoma and Wattiana in Australasia.

Similar Taxa

Other Pimeliinae tribesCnemeplatiini is distinguished from other tribes within the Pimeliinae by tribal-level morphological characters; precise differentiation requires examination of specific morphological features used in tribal .

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Taxonomic history

The tribe was established by Jacquelin du Val in 1861. Recent taxonomic work includes a 2018 revision of the Alaudes that described new from the southwestern USA and Mexico, and established a new subtribe within Cnemeplatiini.