Thaneroclerini Chapin, 1924

Kolibáč, Jiří, 2012, Onerunka longi, a new genus and species of Thanerocleridae (Coleoptera) from Papua New Guinea, with systematic notes on the tribe Thaneroclerini, Zootaxa 3577, pp. 71-79 : 72

Thaneroclerini Chapin, 1924

Viticlerini Winkler, 1982 n. syn.

Remarks. Winkler (1982: 526–527) based the monotypic tribe Viticlerini only on the aptery of a single species, Viticlerus formicinus Miyatake, 1977 . In 1992, after examination of its characters and comparison with the related genera Neoclerus, Meprinogenus and Thaneroclerus , I reached the conclusion that Viticlerini should be synonymized with Thaneroclerini at its present taxonomic rank, i.e., sensu Bouchard et al. 2011 (or with the subtribe Thaneroclerina at the original rank) ( Kolibáč 1992). Unfortunately, the taxonomic act was indicated in the abstract only (p. 303) because I omitted to justify the synonymization in the section “Subtribe Thaneroclerina” (p. 310). Moreover, the indication in the abstract was also erroneous in that the spelling “ Thaneroclerini ” instead of “Thaneroclerina” was used (p. 303).

Considering all these circumstances, the tribe Viticlerini Winkler, 1982 is now herein formally synonymized with Thaneroclerini Chapin, 1924 .