Trachelostenini is a tribe of darkling beetles in the family Tenebrionidae. There are at least three genera in Trachelostenini. It was historically ranked as the family Trachelostenidae,Lawrence, John F. and Ślipinśki, Adam. "11.13. Trachelostenidae Lacordaire, 1859". Volume 2 Morphology and Systematics (Elateroidea, Bostrichiformia, Cucujiformia partim), edited by Willy Kükenthal, Richard A.B. Leschen, Rolf G. Beutel and John F. Lawrence, Berlin, New York: De Gruyter, 2011, pp. 571-574. but a 2015 study sunk the family into the tenebrionid (darkling beetle) subfamily Tenebrioninae.
Genera These genera belong to the tribe Trachelostenini: Leaus Matthews & Lawrence, 1992 (Australasia) Myrmecodema Gebien, 1943 (the Neotropics) Trachelostenus Solier, 1851 (the Neotropics)
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