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Pyrophorini
Taxonomy
Pyrophorites was named by Candèze (1863). It is extant.
It was corrected as Pyrophorinae by Tröster (1991), Tröster (1993) and Tröster (1999); it was reranked as the tribe Pyrophorini by Bouchard et al. (2011), Kundrata et al. (2020) and Kundrata et al. (2021).
It was assigned to Elateridae by Tröster (1991), Tröster (1993) and Tröster (1999); and to Agrypninae by Bouchard et al. (2011), Kundrata et al. (2020) and Kundrata et al. (2021).
It was corrected as Pyrophorinae by Tröster (1991), Tröster (1993) and Tröster (1999); it was reranked as the tribe Pyrophorini by Bouchard et al. (2011), Kundrata et al. (2020) and Kundrata et al. (2021).
It was assigned to Elateridae by Tröster (1991), Tröster (1993) and Tröster (1999); and to Agrypninae by Bouchard et al. (2011), Kundrata et al. (2020) and Kundrata et al. (2021).
Subtaxa
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1991 | Pyrophorinae Tröster p. 100 |
| 1993 | Pyrophorinae Tröster p. 51 |
| 1999 | Pyrophorinae Tröster p. 13 |
| 2011 | Pyrophorini Bouchard et al. |
| 2020 | Pyrophorini Kundrata et al. p. 6 |
| 2021 | Pyrophorini Kundrata et al. p. 14 |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
Tr. Pyrophorini Candèze 1863
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available