Tesserocerina

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Curculionoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Pancrustacea Cladus: Allotriocarida Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Subclassis: Pterygota Infraclassis: Neoptera Cladus: Eumetabola Cladus: Holometabola Superordo: Coleopterida Ordo: Coleoptera Subordo: Polyphaga Infraordo: Cucujiformia Superfamilia: Curculionoidea

Familia: Curculionidae
Subfamilia: Platypodinae
Tribus: Tesserocerini
Subtribus: Tesserocerina
Genera: †Cenocephalus – Chaetastus – †Eoplatypus – Mitosoma – Notoplatypus – Periommatus – Platytarsulus – Spathicranuloides – Spathidicerus – Tesserocerus – Tesserocranulus

Name

Tesserocerina Strohmeyer, 1914: 19

• Type genus: Tesserocerus Saunders, 1836.

Synonymy

• Tesserocerinae H. Strohmeyer, 1914: 19 [original name]
• Cenocephalina H. Strohmeyer, 1914: 19
  • Type genus: Cenocephalus Chapuis, 1865.
• Symmerina H. Strohmeyer, 1914: 19
  • Type genus: Symmerus Chapuis, 1865 [preoccupied genus name, not Symmerus Walker, 1848 [Diptera]; syn. of Chaetastus Nunberg, 1953].
• Periommatina Schedl, 1939: 397, in key
  • Type genus: Periommatus Chapuis, 1865
• Platytarsulina Schedl, 1939: 387
  • Type genus: Platytarsulus Schedl, 1935.
• Platypicerina Nunberg, 1953: 44
  • Type genus: Platypicerus Nunberg, 1953.

References

Primary references

• Strohmeyer, H. 1914. 163me fascicule. Coleoptera. Fam. Platypodidae. In: Wytsman, P.A. (Ed) Genera Insectorum. Vol. XXV. V. Verteneuil & L. Desmet, Bruxelles, pp. 1–55, pls. 1–12. [original description: p. 19]

Additional references

• Alonso-Zarazaga, M.A.; Lyal, C.H.C. 2009: A catalogue of family and genus group names in Scolytinae and Platypodinae with nomenclatural remarks (Coleoptera: Curculionidae). Zootaxa, 2258: 1–134. Abstract & excerpt
• Erichson, W.F. 1847: Conspectus Insectorum Coleopterorum, quae in Republica Peruana observata sunt. Archiv für Naturgeschichte, 13(1): 67–185.
• Donald E. Bright, Robert E. Skidmore 2002: A Catalog of Scolytidae and Platypodidae (Coleoptera): Supplement 2 (1995-1999). National Research Council of Canada, Conseil national de recherches Canada. NRC Research Press. 611 pp.

Vernacular names

English: Ambrosia Beetles