Restoring this clade to tribe status, reflecting the current consensus from recent phylogenetic analyses.
The previous ranking of this clade as subtribe Hylastina, still found on Bugguide.net and barkbeetles.org, 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.
Pistone D., J. Gohli, and B. Jordal. 2017. Molecular phylogeny of bark and ambrosia beetles (Curculionidae: Scolytinae) based on 18 molecular markers. Systematic Entomology 43. DOI:10.1111/syen.12281 (Link)
Unintended disagreements occur when a parent (B) is
thinned by swapping a child (E) to another part of the
taxonomic tree, resulting in existing IDs of the parent being interpreted
as disagreements with existing IDs of the swapped child.
Identification
ID 2 of taxon E will be an unintended disagreement with ID 1 of taxon B after the taxon swap
If thinning a parent results in more than 10 unintended disagreements, you
should split the parent after swapping the child to replace existing IDs
of the parent (B) with IDs that don't disagree.
