Pericomaini

Tribe Pericomaini

The traditional tribe-level taxa Paramormiini and Pericomaini have been questioned in several recent phylogenetic studies. Espíndola et al. (2012) resolved a paraphyletic Paramormiini with respect to Pericomaini , and Kvifte (2018) showed the opposite pattern and therefore chose to treat both taxa as a single taxon, Pericomaini s.l. For the sake of convenience, I here treat the traditional Paramormiini and Pericomaini as subtribes, stat. nov., although since neither of these groupings are defined by unique synapomorphies this is unlikely to reflect their phylogenetic affinities.