Aphanasiini is a tribe of Long-Horned Beetles in the beetle family Cerambycidae. There are about five genera and nine described species in Aphanasiini, found in Australia and Africa.[1][2][3][4]

Aphanasiini
Aristogitus cylindricus, South Africa
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Cerambycidae
Subfamily: Cerambycinae
Tribe: Aphanasiini

Genera

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These five genera belong to the tribe Aphanasiini:[1]

Genus Aphanasium Dejean, 1835
Aphanasium albopilosum Lea, 1917 (Australia)
Aphanasium australe (Boisduval, 1835) (Australia)
Aphanasium flexilis (Pascoe, 1871) (Australia)
Aphanasium variegatum Blackburn, 1893 (Australia)
Genus Aphanosperma Britton, 1969
Aphanosperma occidentalis Britton, 1969 (Australia)
Aphanosperma orientalis Britton, 1969 (Australia)
Genus Aristogitus Thomson, 1864
Aristogitus cylindricus (Thomson, 1861) (South Africa)
Genus Myrsellus McKeown, 1945
Myrsellus unicolor (Hope, 1841) (Australia)
Genus Myrsinus Gahan, 1904
Myrsinus modestus Gahan, 1904 (Mozambique, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Namibia)

References

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  1. ^ a b "Catalogue of Life, Aphanasiini". Retrieved 2024-09-05.
  2. ^ Bezark, Larry G. "A Photographic Catalog of the Cerambycidae of the Old World". Retrieved 2024-08-18.
  3. ^ Tavakilian, Gerard (2023). "TITAN Cerambycidae database". Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris. doi:10.48580/dg9ld-38m.
  4. ^ 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.
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