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Amycterini

tribe of insects

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 15, 2024
Entity authorityQ18141289 ↗
Source-derived summary

Amycterini is a tribe of beetles in the subfamily Cyclominae.

Genera

Acantholophus - Acherres - Achorostoma - Aedriodes - Alexirhea - Amorphorhinus - Amycterus - Anascoptes - Antalaurinus - Atychoria - Brachyrothus - Chriotyphus - Cubicorhynchus - Cucullothorax - Dialeptopus - Dicherotropis - Ennothus - Euomella - Euomus - Gagatophorus - Hyborrhinus - Hypotomops - Lataurinus - Melanegis - Molochtus - Myotrotus - Mythites - Neohyborrhynchus - Notonophes - Oditesus - Ophthalamycterus - Parahyborrhynchus - Pseudonotonophes - Sclerorinus - Sclerorrhinella - Sosytelus - Talaurinellus - Talaurinus - Tetralophus - Xenommamycterus

References

Ferguson, E.W. 1912: Revision of the Amycterides. Part ii. Talaurinus. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, 37 (1): 83–135, pls. 2–3.

Ferguson, E.W. 1913: Revision of the Amycterides. Part ii. Talaurinus (continued). Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, 38 (2): 340–394.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Amycterini” as tribe of insects. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1912, 1913—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Amycterini, tribe and insects can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as tribe of insects. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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This entry incorporates text from “Amycterini” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.