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Species Tribolium madens - Black Flour Beetle

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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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