Ototretinae, McDermott, 1964

Martin, Gavin J., Stanger-Hall, Kathrin F., Branham, Marc A., Da Silveira, Luiz F. L., Lower, Sarah E., Hall, David W., Li, Xue-Yan, Lemmon, Alan R., Lemmon, Emily Moriarty & Bybee, Seth M., 2019, Higher-Level Phylogeny and Reclassification of Lampyridae (Coleoptera: Elateroidea), Insect Systematics and Diversity (AIFB) 3 (6), No. 11, pp. 1-15 : 7

Ototretinae

Our analyses indicate that there may be a close relation between the Ototretinae and the Pterotinae . Recently, the Ototretinae were revised, and their taxonomic placement was addressed ( Janisova and Bocakova 2013). In that study, the monotypic Ototretadrilinae were synonomized under the Ototretinae , and the ototretine lineage was transferred from Elateriformia incertae sedis to Lampyridae . In addition, the genus Stenocladius was transferred from Elateriformia incertae sedis to Ototretinae . Our analyses corroborate these transfers; however, as our taxon sample included only 2 of the 18 genera from the Ototretinae , Stenocladius and Drilaster , a wider generic sampling is needed to address the phylogenetic history of this lineage.

Two other genera, Anadrilus Kirsch, 1875 and Pachytarsus Motschulsky, 1861 , were both excluded from the Ototretinae by Janisova and Bocakova (2013) on the basis of lack of type material to examine. As we were also unable to sample these genera, they remain Lampyridae incertae sedis. Of note, when he described Pachytarsus, Motschulsky (1861) was apparently unaware of the true bug genus by the same name, having been described the year before: Pachytarsus Fieber, 1860 (for current usage, see Ballal et al. 2018). Due to the name Pachytarsus being preoccupied, we propose the replacement name Crassitarsus Martin.