Promethis

Taxonavigation
| Taxonavigation: Tenebrionoidea |
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Superregnum: Eukaryota |
Familia: Tenebrionidae
Subfamilia: Stenochiinae
Tribus: Cnodalonini
Genus:
Species:
P. aberrans –
P. aequatorialis –
P. albertisi –
P. almorensis –
P. amanoi –
P. amplipennis –
P. andamanica –
P. angulata –
P. angulicollis –
P. barbata –
P. barbereti –
P. birmanica –
P. borneensis –
P. brevicornis –
P. buruensis –
P. cameronensis –
P. carbonaria –
P. carteri –
P. chinensis –
P. confusa –
P. conicollis –
P. coracina –
P. cordicollis –
P. crassihornis –
P. crenatostriata –
P. cupripennis –
P. darlingtoni –
P. dentipes –
P. depressa –
P. evanescens –
P. excisa –
P. exigua –
P. formosana –
P. fortepunctaticeps –
P. frontosulcatis –
P. fruhstorferi –
P. furcaticollis –
P. furva –
P. gebieni –
P. glabra –
P. glabricula –
P. granulata –
P. guangxiana –
P. haagi –
P. hangayi –
P. harmandi –
P. harpagon –
P. heros –
P. hiekei –
P. illaesicollis –
P. impressa –
P. insomnis –
P. insularis –
P. iriomotensis –
P. javanica –
P. kaoshana –
P. kempi –
P. kinabaluensis –
P. kurosawai –
P. laevicollis –
P. laosensis –
P. lottinii –
P. luzonica –
P. mandibularis –
P. manillarum –
P. masumotoi –
P. matanga –
P. microcephala –
P. microthorax –
P. mindanaoensis –
P. minor –
P. nigra –
P. nitouana –
P. noctivigila –
P. oceanica –
P. okinawana –
P. opaca –
P. opacimentum –
P. oshimana –
P. parallela –
P. pauperula –
P. pedestris –
P. penicilligera –
P. persimilis –
P. philippinensis –
P. piluensis –
P. plicifrons –
P. producta –
P. proteus –
P. pseudoimpressa –
P. pubiventris –
P. punctatostriata –
P. puncticollis –
P. punctithorax –
P. punctulator –
P. quadraticollis –
P. quadricollis –
P. queenslandica –
P. rectangula –
P. rondoni –
P. rufipennis –
P. rufofemorata –
P. rugosa –
P. sanguinicrus –
P. selangorana –
P. setipes –
P. setulosa –
P. silvestris –
P. sinuatocollis –
P. sterrha –
P. striatipennis –
P. subbiangulata –
P. subfoveata –
P. subrobusta –
P. subvalgipes –
P. sulawesiae –
P. sulcatipennis –
P. sulcicollis –
P. sulcigera –
P. sulcitibia –
P. sumatrana –
P. szetchuanica –
P. taiwana –
P. tatsienlua –
P. temporalis –
P. tenasserimica –
P. tibialis –
P. timorensis –
P. tokunoshimana –
P. tonkinea –
P. tonkinensis –
P. transversicollis –
P. undulata (†) –
P. unidentata –
P. valga –
P. valgipes –
P. vietnamica –
P. villososternalis –
P. vitalisi –
P. walshae –
P. wenxiana –
P. xantusi –
P. yunnanica
Name
Promethis Pascoe, 1869.
Type species: Upis (Iphthinus) angulata Erichson, 1842.
Synonymy
- Mederis Motschulsky, 1872: 24. Synonymy in Kaszab, 1988a: 70.
- Type species: Upis (Iphthinus) angulata Erichson, 1842.
- Pediris Motschulsky, 1872: 24. Synonymy in Kaszab, 1988a: 70.
- Type species: Pediris longipes Motchulsly, 1872 [= Upis sulcigera Boisduval, 1835].
- Setenis Motschulsky, 1872: 24. Synonymized with Promethis Pascoe, 1869 by Kaszab, 1988a: 70.
- Type species: Tenebrio valgus Wiedemann, 1823.
- Pseudobates Fairmaire, 1882: 231. Synonymy in Kaszab, 1988a: 70.
- Type species: Nyctobates coracina Fairmaire, 1882 [= N. subrobusta Motschulsky, 1872].
References
Primary references
- Fairmaire, L. 1882. Coléoptères hétéromères de Sumatra. Notes from the Leyden Museum 4: 219–265. (French) BHL. Reference page.
- Motschoulsky, V. 1872. Enumération des nouvelles espèces de coléoptères rapportés de ses voyages. Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou 45(3–4): 23–55. BHL. Reference page.
- Pascoe, F.P. 1869. Descriptions of new genera and species of Tenebrionidæ from Australia and Tasmania. Annals and Magazine of Natural History ser. 4 3(14): 132–153. BHL. Reference page. [see page 148]
Additional references
- Ba, Y.-B.; Ren, G.-D. 2009: Taxonomy of Promethis Pascoe (Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae) on Hainan Island, China. Zootaxa, 2064: 27–38. Abstract & excerpt
- Iwan, D., Löbl, I., Bouchard, P., Bousquet, Y., Kamiński, M, Merkl, O., Ando, K. & Schawaller, W. 2020. Family Tenebrionidae Latreille, 1802. In: Iwan, D. & Löbl, I. (eds.), Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera. Volume 5. Tenebrionoidea. Revised and Updated Second Edition. Brill. xxiv, 945 pp. DOI: 10.1163/9789004434998
(via Wikipedia Library
). ISBN 978-90-04-43499-8. Google Books. Reference page. [see pages 464–467] - Kaszab, Z. (†) 1988. Katalog und Bestimmungstabelle der Gattung Promethis Pascoe, 1869 (Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae). Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 34(2–3): 67–170. Online. Reference page.
- Kaszab, Z. (†) 1988. Faunistische Angaben der Gattung Promethis Pascoe, 1869 (Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae). Folia entomologica hungarica 49: 55–116. PDF. Reference page.
- Masumoto, K. 2007. Tenebrionidae. In: Morimoto, K. (ed.), 新訂 原色昆虫大圖鑑 [Iconographia Insectorum Japonicorum Colore Naturali Edita], Vol. II (Coleoptera). 526 pp. Tokyo: Hokuryukan Co., Ltd. ISBN 978-4-8326-0826-9 (Japanese). Reference page. [see page 271]
- Nabozhenko, M.V. & Tanaka, T. 2022. Promethis undulatus sp. n. – the first fossil darkling beetle (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: Stenochiinae: Cnodalonini) from the late Miocene of Japan. Caucasian Entomological Bulletin 18(2): 273–278. DOI: 10.23885/181433262022182-273278
. Reference page.
Links
- Promethis – Taxon details on Index to Organism Names (ION). Accessed: 23 May 2025.