Dorcasominae Lacordaire, 1869

Vives, Eduard, 2015, Revision of the genus Trypogeus Lacordaire, 1869 (Cerambycidae, Dorcasominae), ZooKeys 502, pp. 39-60 : 40

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scientific name	Dorcasominae Lacordaire, 1869
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Treatment

Subfamily Dorcasominae Lacordaire, 1869

Dorcasomides Lacordaire, 1868: 456.

Apatophysides Lacordaire, 1869: 234.

Apatophysinae Danilevsky, 1979: (misspelling).

Apatophyseinae : Lobanov et al. 1981; Löbl and Smetana 2010.

Dorcasominae : Özdikmen 2008; Villiers et al. 2011; Vives and Heffern 2012; Svacha and Lawrence 2014: 34.

Note.

The subfamily Dorcasominae currently has 321 species in Africa, Europe, and southeastern Asia. Among these, 257 are endemic to Madagascar and the Comoros islands, 24 species are Oriental ( Vives and Heffern 2006), 22 species are South Palearctic and 12 are Afro-tropical. Dorcasominae are not present in the western hemisphere, Australia or Polynesia ( Villiers et al. 2011).