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Tenebrionidae
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family of beetles
OverviewAI-generated
Tenebrionidae is a family of insects within the order Coleoptera, class Insecta, and phylum Arthropoda. The taxon is classified under the superfamily Tenebrionoidea and is commonly known as darkling beetles. Other common names include Zwartlijven, skyggebiller, and 拟步甲科. The family was described by Latreille in 1802 and holds an accepted status in taxonomic records.
Records for this family are held by institutions such as LACM, INECOL, and IIZD-UASLP, with occurrences documented in the United States and Mexico. The habitat is listed as marine. The taxon is referenced by 1,183 other encyclopedia articles.
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Species
darkling beetles
FAMILY
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassInsecta
- OrderColeoptera
- FamilyTenebrionidae
拟步行虫科（Tenebrionidae；科名有時錯拼為T e r e b r i o n i d a e[1][2]），又称拟步甲科，为鞘翅目拟步总科下的一科。它是鞘翅目下的一個大科，下含約2,000種生物。其學名的意思是“似Tenebrio的”，而Tenebrio則是林奈在第10版《自然系統》中給出的一個甲蟲屬名[3]，Tenebrio的意思是“尋找黑暗之處者”[4][5]。 分類 按2005年的分類法，該科包括以下的亞科：[6] Alleculinae Laporte, 1840 Cossyphodinae Wasmann, 1899 Diaperinae Latreille, 1802 Lagriinae Latreille, 1825 (1820) Nilioninae Lacordaire, 1859 Phrenapatinae Solier, 1834 Pimeliinae Latreille, 1802 Stenochiinae Kirby, 1837 Tenebrioninae Latreille, 1802 Zolodininae Watt, 1974 參考文獻 ^ Dennis S. Hill. The Economic Importance of Insects. Springer Science & Business Media. 1997: 109–. ISBN 978-0-412-49800-8. ^ Egyptian Beetle (Blaps polychresta). ^ Caroli Linnæi ... Animalium specierum in classes, ordines, genera, species, methodica dispositio ... Internet Archive. ^ Jaeger, Edmund Carroll. A source-book of biological names and terms. Springfield, Ill: Thomas. 1959. ISBN 0-398-06179-3. ^ Brown, Lesley. The New shorter Oxford English dictionary on historical principles. Oxford [Eng.]: Clarendon. 1993. ISBN 0-19-861271-0. ^ Bouchard, Patrice. Lawrence, John F. Davies, Anthony E. Newton, Alfred F. Synoptic Classification of the World Tenebrionidae (Insecta: Coleoptera) with
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 40,353
- With media
- 4,643
- Family
- Tenebrionidae
- Collections
- LACM, INECOL, IIZD-UASLP
- Recorded in
- United States, Mexico
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Encyclopedic overview
Darkling beetle is the common name for members of the beetle family Tenebrionidae, comprising over 20,000 species in a cosmopolitan distribution.
Taxonomy
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