Based on morphological and molecular evidence, Kamiński et al. (2021) moved seven tribes from Tenebrioninae into the newly resurrected subfamily Blaptinae. In 2024, the tribe Dissonomini was added. The new classification has been widely accepted by scientific community[5][6][1] Currently, the subfamily contains 283 genera and about 4000 species.
Blaptinae is one of the most widespread and abundant groups of darkling beetles in arid regions around the world. In several desert ecosystems, members of this subfamily form a dominant part of the local invertebrate fauna—for example Gonopus tibialis (sandworm beetle) in Namib[7] or Parastizopus armaticeps in Kalahari.[8]
Ovoviviparity has been documented in certain species of the tribe Platynotina,[9] where females have been observed carrying fully developed first-instar larvae within their bursa copulatrix.[10]
↑Rasa, OAE. "Evidence for subsociality and division of labour in a desert tenebrionid beetle Parastiopus armaticeps Peringuey". Naturwissenschaften. 77: 591–592.
Somerby, Ronald E.; Thomas, Donald B.; Triplehorn, Charles A. (2002). "Family 106: Tenebrionidae". In Arnett, Ross H. Jr.; Thomas, Michael C.; Skelley, Paul E.; Frank, J. Howard (eds.). American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press. pp.463–509. ISBN978-0-8493-0954-0.
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