Dendrometrinae Gistel, 1848

Németh, Tamás, Hoffmannova, Johana, Kakiopoulos, George, Kramp, Katja & Kundrata, Robin, 2023, Plastocerus angulosus (Germar, 1844) (Coleoptera: Elateridae: Dendrometrinae) an enigmatic click beetle with a convoluted taxonomic history, Zootaxa 5284 (2), pp. 271-290 : 274

Subfamily Dendrometrinae Gistel, 1848

Tribe Plastocerini Crowson, 1972 [nec LeConte, 1861; an application should be submitted to the International Commission of Zoological Nomenclature to suppress LeConte's name to conserve Crowson's name as valid ( ICZN 1999); for more information see Bouchard et al. (2011) and Hájek et al. (2020)]

Composition and distribution

Only a single genus Plastocerus with two species is included in this tribe. Plastocerus angulosus is known from Greece, Asia Minor, and Levant, and P. thoracicus is known from East and South East Asia ( Branham 2010, Lin & Yang 2012, Hájek et al. 2020). Pseudophyllocerus atricolor was considered a separate species by Reitter (1896, 1910) but other authors followed Schwarz (1897) who synonymized it with P. angulosus . Recently, Binhon atrum Pic, 1922 was synonymized with P. thoracicus by Hájek et al. (2020).