Melanimon tibialis (Fabricius, 1781)
(a darkling beetle)

Taxonomic hierarchy:

Species	Melanimon tibialis (a darkling beetle)
Family	TENEBRIONIDAE (darkling and flour beetles)
Superfamily	TENEBRIONOIDEA (narrow timber beetles)
Series	Cucujiformia (a group of beetles)
Suborder	POLYPHAGA (mainly terrestrial beetles)
Order	COLEOPTERA (beetles)
Division	Endopterygota (bees, beetles, flies, moths and other insects with wings developing internally)
Infraclass	Neoptera (bees, beetles, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other advanced insects)
Subclass	PTERYGOTA (bees, beetles, dragonflies, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other winged insects)
Class	INSECTA (true insects)
Subphylum	HEXAPODA (insects and other 6-legged organisms)
Phylum	ARTHROPODA (arthropods)
Superphylum	ECDYSOZOA (skin shedders)
Clade	Bilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
Subkingdom	EUMETAZOA (metazoans)
Kingdom	ANIMALIA (animals)
Domain	Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
Life	BIOTA (living things)

Melanimon tibialis is also a member of:
Invertebrates - Invertebrates (via Arthropoda)

Records of Melanimon tibialis (a darkling beetle) :
1: Melanimon tibialis (a darkling beetle)
6 May 2014	OSGR: SZ08	50° 40’ N, 1° 60’ W	Vice County: Dorset (VC 9)	England
on sandy bank at side of parh

2: Melanimon tibialis (a darkling beetle)
10 Jun 2013	OSGR: SZ08	50° 40’ N, 1° 60’ W	Vice County: Dorset (VC 9)	England
on bare sand

3: Melanimon tibialis (a darkling beetle)
19 May 2007	OSGR: TF84	52° 60’ N, 0° 50’ E	Vice County: West Norfolk (VC 28)	England
Several small beetles crawling about on sand

Melanimon tibialis (a darkling beetle) may be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

TENEBRIONIDAE
(darkling and flour beetles)

TENEBRIONOIDEA
(narrow timber beetles)

COLEOPTERA
(beetles)

INSECTA
(true insects)

HEXAPODA
(insects and other 6-legged organisms)

ARTHROPODA
(arthropods)

ANIMALIA
(animals)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

NBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for Melanimon tibialis (a darkling beetle)

BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 0 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for Melanimon tibialis (a darkling beetle)

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Taxonomic hierarchy:

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