A Checklist of the Buprestidae (Coleoptera) of Madagascar and adjacent oceanic islands

Subtribe SPHENOPTERINA Lacordaire, 1857
Sphenopterides (Buprestides vrais, Group IV) Lacordaire 1857:68; Obenberger 1930:215.
Sphenopterini Lacordaire 1857:58; Schaefer 1949:95; Cobos 1986:195.
Sphenopterina Jakobson 1912:773, 782; Obenberger 1930:215; Hołyński 1988:51.

Genus SPHENOPTERA Dejean, 1833
    Sphenoptera Dejean 1833:81;
        Type species: Buprestis lapidaria Brulle (subsequent designation: Volkovitsh & Kalashian 1994:102).

subgenus Tropeopeltis Jakovlev, 1902
    Sphenoptera (Tropeopeltis) Jakovlev 1902a:283.
        Type species: Sphenoptera anthaxoides Reitter (subsequent designation: Volkovitsh & Kalashian 1994:104).

howa Nonfried 1892:138.
        [sbg. Tropeopeltis]
        Distribution: Madagascar
        Type: ZMHB
        syn. insularis Kerremans 1898b:82.
        Type: BMNH
        syn. perrieri Fairmaire 1898:228.
        Type: MNHN
        syn. madagascariensis Jakovlev 1900c:437.
        Type: ZINAS