Categories between Family and Genus: Zoology only

[Riaan Stals]

On 5 Apr 2002 at 9:42, christian thompson wrote:

> I would like to know whether people use additional categories for
> family-group names and what ending they used.

The chrysomelidologists use a category "Section", and the standardised ending is
"-ites". It is unclear to me, however, whether this category is used below that of
subtribe, or instead of that of subtribe.

Hence Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae: Galerucini: Galerucites contains the genus
Galeruca Muller, but there is apparently no such thing as a subtribe 'Galerucina'.

See Seeno, T.N. & Wilcox, J.A. 1982. Leaf Beetle Genera. Entomography 1: 1-221.

Can somebody explain this to me?

RIAAN

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