[2][4][5] The distribution area of the Obrimini extends from Borneo to the east and includes the Philippines, Sulawesi, most of the Moluccas and New Guinea.

Farthest east lies with Viti Levu, the main island of the Fiji group, the distribution area of Pterobrimus depressus.

[2][5] Miroceramia Pterobrimus Theramenes Tisamenus Stenobrimus Obrimus Brasidas Euobrimus Mearnsiana Aretaon Eubulides Obrimini sp.

'Negros' = Trachyaretaon negrosanon Sungaya Trachyaretaon Brunner von Wattenwyl built in 1893 for the genera already described Obrimus, Hoploclonia, Tisamenus, Pylaemenes, Dares and Datames (today a synonym to Pylaemenes) the tribe Obrimini (abbreviated there as Obrimi.).

[6] In the following years, basesd on this work, mostly genera of today's Obriminae and Dataminae were listed in this tribe, for example by Josef Redtenbacher in 1906.