Melanimonini
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Cheirodes
Cheirodes is a genus of darkling beetles (Tenebrionidae) in the tribe Melanimonini. The genus was established by Géné in 1839 and was revived in 1973 when T. J. Spilman synonymized the later name Anemia (Laporte, 1840) with Cheirodes. It contains numerous species distributed across Africa, Europe, Asia, and North America, organized into six recognized subgenera. Many species were originally described under Anemia and later transferred to Cheirodes.