Subtentyrina

Löbl, I. & Merkl, O., 2003, On The Type Species Of Several Tenebrionid Genera And Subgenera (Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae), Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 49 (3), pp. 243-253 : 251

Subtentyrina

KOCH (1939: 260) described Subtentyria, a new subgenus of Tentyria LATREILLE, 1802 , for the following four Mediterranean species: T. maroccana SOLIER, 1835 , T. elongata WALTL, 1835 , T. emarginata KRAATZ, 1865 , and T. subcostata SOLIER, 1835 . He and subsequent workers failed to designate a type species. From the four species only T.elongata is currently placed in Subtentyrina , the remaining three species are in the nominate subgenus Tentyria . The original description given by KOCH (1939: 260) characterizes the group. We designate hereby T. elongata WALTL, 1835 as the type species of Subtentyria.