Chiliarchum

Chiliarchum
A member of Phanerotomeina in Kruger National Park
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Polyphaga
Infraorder: Cucujiformia
Family: Tenebrionidae
Tribe: Sepidiini
Genus: Chiliarchum
Carl Koch, 1954 [or 1953][1]

The genus Chiliarchum are ground-dwelling, Afrotropical beetles in the family Tenebrionidae.[2][3]. In some schemes it has been presented as a subgenus Ocnodes (Chiliarchum) (e.g. Kamiński et al., 2019),[4] but later treated as a valid genus in Kamiński et al., 2020.[2][3]

Species

The species include:[5][2] (or a subgenus from older schemes[6])

  • Chiliarchum arnoldi (Koch, 1952)
  • Chiliarchum bertolonii (Guérin-Méneville, 1844)
  • Chiliarchum freyi (Koch, 1952)
  • Chiliarchum guerini (Haag-Rutenberg, 1871)
  • Chiliarchum junodi (Péringuey, 1899)

References

  1. ^ Koch, Carlo. (1954). The Tenebrionidae of southern Africa XXVI New Port. East African species collected by Dr A J Barbosa. Revista da faculdade de ciencias, Universidade de Lisboa. Serie C. Ciencias Naturais.
  2. ^ a b c Marcin J Kamiński; Olivia M Gearner; Kojun Kanda; Kali Swichtenberg; Luboš Purchart; Aaron D Smith (16 June 2020). "First insights into the phylogeny of tok-tokkie beetles (Tenebrionidae: Molurina, Phanerotomeina) and examination of the status of the Psammodes vialis species-group" (PDF). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 191 (3): 883–901. doi:10.1093/ZOOLINNEAN/ZLAA052. ISSN 1096-3642. Wikidata Q110666094.
  3. ^ a b Patrice Bouchard; Yves Bousquet; Rolf L. Aalbu; Miguel Ángel Alonso-Zarazaga; Ottó Merkl; Anthony E. Davies (26 July 2021). "Review of genus-group names in the family Tenebrionidae (Insecta, Coleoptera)". ZooKeys. 1050: 1–633. doi:10.3897/ZOOKEYS.1050.64217. ISSN 1313-2989. Wikidata Q113335587.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link)
  4. ^ Marcin Jan Kamiński; Kojun Kanda; Ryan Lumen; et al. (2019). "A catalogue of the tribe Sepidiini Eschscholtz, 1829 (Tenebrionidae, Pimeliinae) of the world". ZooKeys. 844 (844): 1–121. doi:10.3897/ZOOKEYS.844.34241. ISSN 1313-2989. PMC 6527536. PMID 31143077. Wikidata Q64268326.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link)
  5. ^ "Chiliarchum". GBIF. Retrieved 7 January 2026.
  6. ^ "Ocnodes (Chiliarchum)". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 7 January 2026.