Cnodalonini
Oken, 1843
darkling beetles
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13Cnodalonini is a large tribe of darkling beetles (Tenebrionidae: Stenochiinae) containing over 340 distributed primarily across the Oriental, Afrotropical, and Palaearctic regions. The tribe exhibits substantial morphological diversity, with genera such as Morphostenophanes, Hexarhopalus, Gauromaia, Euhemicera, and Annamosdara documented from Asia, while Mariepskopia represents the tribe in South African relict arboreal . Taxonomic revisions continue to reveal high , particularly in Southeast Asia and southern China.



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Distribution
Oriental Region (Southeast Asia, southern China, Taiwan, Vietnam, Myanmar, Thailand, Philippines, Hainan Island); Afrotropical Region (South Africa: relict arboreal ); Palaearctic Region (parts of East Asia). Specific documented localities include Yunnan, Guangxi, Hunan, Hubei, Jiangxi, Sichuan, Fujian, Xizang/Tibet, and Hainan in China; North Vietnam; Myanmar; Thailand; Mindanao and other Philippine islands; and South Africa.
Sources and further reading
- BugGuide
- Wikipedia
- iNaturalist taxon
- Catalogue of Life
- A revision of the genus Morphostenophanes Pic, 1925 (Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae, Stenochiinae, Cnodalonini)
- A taxonomic revision of the genus Hexarhopalus (Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae: Cnodalonini) from China
- A new species of the genus Morphostenophanes Pic, 1925 (Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae, Cnodalonini) from Vietnam
- A new species of the genus Euhemicera (Tenebrionidae: Cnodalonini) from South East Asia, with an updated catalogue of all known species
- Mariepskopia albomaculatagen. et sp. nov. (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: Cnodalonini) from Relict Arboreal Habitats in South Africa
- First record of the little known genus Annamosdara Kaszab, 1941 (Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae, Stenochiinae, Cnodalonini) from China, with description of a second species
- Notes on the Distribution and Ovipositor Morphology of Mylarisgigas (Linnaeus, 1767), Mylaris maxima (Germar, 1824), and Taphrosomadohrni Kirsch, 1866 (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: Stenochiinae: Cnodalonini)
- Two New Species of Darkling Beetles of the Genus Gauromaia Pascoe, 1866 (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: Cnodalonini) from Central and Southern Mindanao with Updated Species Geographic Distribution and a Key to Species of the Philippine Fauna