Dorcasominae

Subfamily of beetles

Dorcasominae

Apterotoxitiades vivesi, South Africa
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Family:	Cerambycidae
Subfamily:	Dorcasominae Lacordaire 1868

Dorcasominae is a subfamily in the longhorn beetle family Cerambycidae. There are about 14 genera and more than 30 described species in Dorcasominae, found mainly in Asia and Africa. These genera are sometimes considered members of the tribe Dorcasomini, which would be the only tribe of this subfamily. This classification is in accordance with the TITAN Cerambycidae database,^[1] Catalogue of Life,^[2] and Photographic Catalog of the Cerambycidae of the Old World.^[3] It is similar to that of Bouchard et al. in "Family-group names in Coleoptera", 2011.^[4]

In addition to the 14 genera currently in Dorcasominae, this subfamily formerly contained more than 100 genera in following tribes:^[2]^[3]^[1]^[4]

Apatophyseini (now in subfamily Apatophyseinae with 98 genera)
Protaxini (now in subfamily Cerambycinae)
Trigonarthrini (now in subfamily Cerambycinae)
Trypogeini (now genus Trypogeus of this subfamily)

Genera

These 14 genera belong to the subfamily Dorcasominae:^[2]

Afroartelida Vives & Adlbauer, 2005
Afrocrisis Vives, 2009
Apterotoxitiadella Bjørnstad, 2017
Apterotoxitiades Adlbauer, 2008
Borneophysis Vives & Heffern, 2006
Capetoxotus Tippmann, 1959
Dorcasomus Audinet-Serville, 1834
Kudekanye Rice, 2008
Lycosomus Aurivillius, 1903
Microcapnolymma Pic, 1928
Micrometopus Quedenfeldt, 1885
Otteissa Pascoe, 1864
Pachyticon Thomson, 1857
Trypogeus Lacordaire, 1869

References

^ ^a ^b Tavakilian, Gerard (2023). "TITAN Cerambycidae database". Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris. doi:10.48580/dg9ld-38m.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Catalogue of Life, Dorcasominae Lacordaire 1868". Retrieved 2024-09-04.
^ ^a ^b Bezark, Larry G. "A Photographic Catalog of the Cerambycidae of the Old World". Retrieved 2024-08-18.
^ ^a ^b Bouchard, Patrice; Bousquet, Yves; Davies, Anthony E.; Alonso-Zarazaga, Miguel A.; et al. (2011). "Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta)". ZooKeys (88): 1–972. Bibcode:2011ZooK...88....1B. doi:10.3897/zookeys.88.807. PMC 3088472. PMID 21594053.