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Tribe Alphitobiini

Platydema? - Alphitobius diaperinus Alphitobius diaperinus 9051263 teneb - Alphitobius diaperinus ? flower beetle - Alphitobius diaperinus Darkling Beetle - Alphitobius diaperinus Beetle - Alphitobius diaperinus Alphitobius diaperinus red-tinted beetle - Alphitobius
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 Alphitobiini
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Metaclisa (formerly treated here) has been assigned to a tribe of its own(1)
Explanation of Names
Alphitobiini Reitter 1917
Numbers
a single genus in our area(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.Catalogue of Tenebrionidae (Coleoptera) of North America
Yves Bousquet, Donald B. Thomas, Patrice Bouchard, Aaron D. Smith, Rolf L. Aalbu, M. Andrew Johnston, Warren E. Steiner Jr. 2018. ZooKeys 728: 1-455.