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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 1,317
- With media
- 78
- Family
- Tenebrionidae
- Collections
- MHNCA, UD, MAJC, BYU, CSU
- Recorded in
- Mexico, United States
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Strongylium is a genus of darkling beetles in the family Tenebrionidae. It is one of the largest genera in both the family and its subfamily, Stenochiinae, with more than 1,400 known species. These beetles are widely distributed in the tropics and subtropics of the Old and New World. More than 300 species are native to the Neotropics.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Strongylium” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.