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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Tenebrionoidea » Darkling Beetles (Tenebrionidae) » Tenebrioninae » Triboliini » Flour Beetles (Tribolium) » subgenus Tribolium (Tribolium subgenus Tribolium) » Black Flour Beetle (Tribolium madens)

Species Tribolium madens - Black Flour Beetle

Classification · Explanation of Names · Size · Identification · Range · Habitat · Remarks · Works Cited
Mealworm beetle - Tribolium madens small Tenebrionid - Tribolium madens small Tenebrionid - Tribolium madens
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
Genus Tribolium (Flour Beetles)
No Taxon (subgenus Tribolium)
Species madens (Black Flour Beetle)
Explanation of Names
Tribolium madens (Charpentier 1825)
Size
~5 mm(1)
Identification
robust, shiny black to blackish brown(1)
images: 1 | 2
Range
native to w. Palaearctic (Europe, North Africa), adventive in NA (e. Canada, w. US)(1)(2)(3)
Habitat
associated with flour, cornmeal, grains, and seeds(1)
Remarks
earliest record in our area: before 1897?(4)
Works Cited
1.Handbook of urban insects and arachnids: A handbook of urban entomology
Robinson W.H. 2005. Cambridge University Press.
2.Checklist of beetles (Coleoptera) of Canada and Alaska. Second edition
Bousquet Y., Bouchard P., Davies A.E., Sikes D.S. 2013. ZooKeys 360: 1–402.
3.Alien terrestrial arthropods of Europe
Roques A., Kenis M., Lees D., Lopez-Vaamonde C., Rabitsch W., Rasplus J.-Y., Roy D., eds. 2010. BioRisk 4 Special Issue; 2 vols., 1028 pp.
4.The Tenebrionidae (Coleoptera) of the Maritime Provinces of Canada
Majka C.G., Bouchard P., Bousquet Y. 2008. Can. Entomol. 140: 690‒713.
Contributed by v belov on 1 March, 2014 - 5:43pm
Last updated 2 March, 2014 - 10:02am

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