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Tribe Triboliini

powderpost beetles? - Tribolium castaneum

Mystery tenebrionid - Hypogena tricornis

Tribolium castaneum? - Palorus ratzeburgii

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Coleoptera (Beetles)

Suborder Polyphaga

No Taxon (Series Cucujiformia)

Superfamily Tenebrionoidea

Family Tenebrionidae (Darkling Beetles)

Subfamily Tenebrioninae

Tribe Triboliini

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Tharsus (formerly treated in this tribe) has been synonymized with Metaclisa(1)

Explanation of Names

Triboliini Gistel 1848

Numbers

17 spp. in 6 genera in our area, 11 genera total(2)(1)

Range

worldwide(2)

Remarks

the group includes many pests of stored products(2)

Works Cited

1.	New assignments among the genera Haplandrus LeConte, Metaclisa Jacquelin Du Val and Tharsus LeConte with descriptions... Steiner W.E. 2016. Ann. Zool. 66: 529-550.

2.	American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea Arnett, R.H., Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.). 2002. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, FL.

Contributed by v belov on 24 July, 2009 - 4:25pm
Last updated 4 January, 2018 - 6:30am

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