Dendarus

Dendarus is a genus of darkling beetles in the family Tenebrionidae. The genus is distributed from Morocco to Caucasus and exhibits a high level of diversity with 36 species, 27 of which are island endemics.[1][2] Analyses of the phylogenetic relationships of 23 species from Greece and Turkey revealed 13 distinct lineages with several para- and polyphyletic cases corresponding to three major phylogroups [south/south-east Aegean (D. foraminosus complex, D. rhodius, D. sporadicus, D. wettsteini); central to north Aegean, Turkey and mainland Greece (D. crenulatus, D. moesiacus group, D. sinuatus complex, D. stygius) and mainland Greece (D. messenius, D. paganettii)].[1]

Dendarus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Coleoptera
Family:
Tenebrionidae
Genus:
Dendarus

Latreille, 1829

References
  1. Trichas, Apostolos; Smirli, Maria; Papadopoulou, Anna; Anastasiou, Ioannis; Keskin, Bekir; Poulakakis, Nikos (2020). "Dispersal versus vicariance in the Aegean: combining molecular and morphological phylogenies of eastern Mediterranean Dendarus (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) sheds new light on the phylogeography of the Aegean area". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 190 (3): 824–843. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaa022.
  2. Trichas, A. (2008). "The genus Dendarus LATREILLE, 1829 (Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae: Dendarini) in Greece. (A systematic account of the genus with description of a new species and four new systematic combinations.)". In Makarov, S. E.; Dimitrijević, R. N. (eds.). Advances in arachnology and developmental biology. Papers dedicated to Prof. Dr. Božidar Ćurčić. Vienna, Belgrade, Sofia: Institute of Zoology, Belgrade; BAS, Sofia; Faculty of Life Science, Vienna; SASA, Belgrade & UNESCO MAB Serbia. pp. 417–462.
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