Taxonomic Swap 100360 (Committed on 2021-10-16)

Restoring this clade to tribe status, reflecting the current consensus from recent phylogenetic analyses.

The previous ranking of this clade as subtribe Crypturgina, still found on Bugguide.net and some other sources, reflects the "modified Wood" schema that was generally adopted after the former Family Scolytidae was demoted to a subfamily of Curculionidae (as Scolytinae). As a convention, many tribes that had been placed under Scolytidae:Scolytinae were demoted to subtribes of Scolytini. However, recent analyses have found this to be polyphyletic.

See Tom Atkinson's explanation here: https://www.barkbeetles.info/amer_classification.php

And the updated groupings for N. American species on barkbeetles.info here: https://www.barkbeetles.info/amer_index_tribe_exp.php

See Pistone et al. (2017) for an example of recent phylogenetic analysis supporting this change.

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Added by eickwort on October 16, 2021 08:30 PM | Committed by eickwort on October 16, 2021
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