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Darkling Beetles and Allies
Tenebrionoidea
The Tenebrionoidea are a very large and diverse superfamily of beetles.
It generally corresponds to the Heteromera of earlier authors.
31 branches of this superfamily, most-observed first
Darkling Beetles
familyTenebrionidae
Blister Beetles
familyMeloidae
False Blister Beetles
familyOedemeridae
Tumbling Flower Beetles
familyMordellidae
Fire-colored Beetles
familyPyrochroidae
Ant-like Flower Beetles
familyAnthicidae
Ironclad beetles
familyZopheridae
False Flower Beetles
familyScraptiidae
Wedge-shaped Beetles
familyRipiphoridae
Hairy Fungus Beetles
familyMycetophagidae
False Darkling Beetles
familyMelandryidae
Polypore Fungus Beetles
familyTetratomidae
Ant-like Leaf Beetles
familyAderidae
Shelf Fungus Beetles
familyCiidae
Synchroa Bark Beetles
familySynchroidae
Narrow-waisted Bark Beetles
familySalpingidae
False Longhorn Beetles
familyStenotrachelidae
Palm and Flower Beetles
familyMycteridae
Dead Log Beetles
familyPythidae
Ulodidae
familyUlodidae
Conifer Bark Beetles
familyBoridae
Trictenotomidae
familyTrictenotomidae
Red Log Beetles
familyProstomidae
Lagrioididae
familyLagrioididae
Ancient Fungus Beetle
familyArcheocrypticidae
Broad-hipped Flower Beetles
familyIschaliidae
Chalcodryidae
familyChalcodryidae
Promecheilidae
familyPromecheilidae
Rhizonium
genusRhizonium
Afreminae
subfamilyAfreminae
Pterogeniidae
familyPterogeniidae
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 47593.