Darkling beetle
| Darkling beetle Temporal range: | |
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| Alphitobius sp. (Tenebrioninae: Alphitobiini) Scale bar (top right) is 2 mm | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Cucujiformia |
| Superfamily: | Tenebrionoidea |
| Family: | Tenebrionidae Latreille, 1802 |
| Subfamilies | |
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| Synonyms | |
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Alleculidae | |
Darkling beetle is the common name for members of the beetle family Tenebrionidae, comprising over 20,000 species in a cosmopolitan distribution.
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