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Genus Tenebrio - Mealworm beetles

Phylum Arthropoda - Arthropods
Subphylum Hexapoda - Hexapods
Class Insecta - Insects
Order Coleoptera - Beetles
Suborder Polyphaga - Water, Rove, Scarab, Long-horned, Leaf and Snout Beetles
No Taxon Series Cucujiformia
Superfamily Tenebrionoidea - Fungus, Bark, Darkling and Blister Beetles
Family Tenebrionidae - Darkling Beetles
Subfamily Tenebrioninae
Tribe Tenebrionini
Genus Tenebrio - Mealworm beetles

Species molitor - Yellow Mealworm
Species obscurus - Dark Mealworm


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