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TENEBRIONIDAE (darkling and flour beetles)

Subtaxa

Rank Taxon #subtaxa #photos #macrophotos #refs #webs
Genus Blaps (a genus of darkling beetles)         1
Species Bolitophagus reticulatus (L., 1767) (a darkling beetle)         1
Genus Corticeus (a genus of darkling beetles) 4        
Species Corticeus bicolor (Olivier, 1790) (a darkling beetle)         2
Species Corticeus fraxini (Kugelann, 1794) (a darkling beetle)         1
Species Corticeus linearis (F., 1790) (a darkling beetle)         2
Species Corticeus unicolor Piller & Mitterpacher, 1783 (a darkling beetle)         3
Species Cteniopus sulphureus (L., 1758) (Sulphur Beetle)   5 4 1  
Species Cylindrinotus laevioctostriatus (Goeze, 1777) (a darkling beetle)   6 7    
Species Diaperis boleti (L., 1758) (a darkling beetle)         1
Species Lagria hirta (L., 1758) (a darkling beetle)   10 2   1
Species Melanimon tibialis (F., 1781) (a darkling beetle)   14 15    
Species Mycetochara humeralis (F., 1787) (a darkling beetle)         4
Species Opatrum sabulosum (L., 1758) (a darkling beetle)     6    
Species Prionychus ater (Fab.) (a darkling beetle)         6
Species Prionychus melanarius (Germar, 1813) (a darkling beetle)         1
Species Pseudocistela ceramboides (L., 1758) (a darkling beetle)         1
Species Scaphidema metallicum (F., 1792) (a darkling beetle)         1
Genus Tenebrio (mealworm beetles) 1        
Species Tenebrio molitor L., 1758 (Mealworm Beetle)   4      

Suggested Literature

Identification Works

Brendell, M.J.D., 1975 (Only covers subfamilies Tenebrioninae and Diaperinae. The others are covered by Buck.) Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae
Buck, F.D., 1954 (Covers subfamilies Lagriinae and Alleculinae. The others are covered by Brendell.) Coleoptera: Lagriidae, Alleculidae, Tetratomidae, Melandryidae etc
van Emden, F.I., 1947 (Larvae) Larvae of British Beetles VI: Tenebrionidae

TENEBRIONIDAE may also be covered by literature listed under:

BIOTA
(living things)
Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)
ANIMALIA
(animals)
ARTHROPODA
(arthropods)
HEXAPODA
(hexapods)
INSECTA
(insects)
COLEOPTERA
(beetles)

Feeding and other inter-species relationships

TENEBRIONIDAE is associated with:

There may be taxa associated with Tenebrionidae listed at higher taxonomic level

COLEOPTERA
(beetles)

Associated with TENEBRIONIDAE:

larva larva is endoparasitoid host of larva Chetogena acuminata - a parasitoid fly (Diptera: Tachinidae) Foreign Belshaw, R., 1993

Tenebrionidae may be associated with more taxa listed at higher taxonomic level

ANIMALIA
(animals)
INSECTA
(insects)
COLEOPTERA
(beetles)

References

Belshaw, R., 1993 Tachinid Flies (Diptera: Tachinidae)

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