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Tenebrionites (darkling beetle)
Taxonomy
Tenebrionites was named by Latreille (1802). It is extant. Its type is Tenebrio.
It was corrected as Tenebrionidae by Tillyard (1918), Crowson (1981), Lawrence and Newton (1995), Bouchard et al. (2011), Chang et al. (2016), Batelka et al. (2018) and Cai et al. (2022).
It was assigned to Coleoptera by Latreille (1802) and Tillyard (1918); to Heteromera by Crowson (1981); and to Tenebrionoidea by Lawrence and Newton (1995), Bouchard et al. (2011), Chang et al. (2016), Batelka et al. (2018) and Cai et al. (2022).
It was corrected as Tenebrionidae by Tillyard (1918), Crowson (1981), Lawrence and Newton (1995), Bouchard et al. (2011), Chang et al. (2016), Batelka et al. (2018) and Cai et al. (2022).
It was assigned to Coleoptera by Latreille (1802) and Tillyard (1918); to Heteromera by Crowson (1981); and to Tenebrionoidea by Lawrence and Newton (1995), Bouchard et al. (2011), Chang et al. (2016), Batelka et al. (2018) and Cai et al. (2022).
Subtaxa
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1802 | Tenebrionites Latreille p. 165 |
| 1895 | Tenebrio calculensis Scudder p. 31 figs. Pl 3, figs 1,6 |
| 1900 | Tenebrio calculensis Scudder p. 115 |
| 1918 | Tenebrionidae Tillyard |
| 1937 | Ancylochira oligostriata Piton and Théobald p. 83 fig. 6 |
| 1940 | Ancylochira oligostriata Piton pp. 185-187 figs. 52-53 |
| 1981 | Tenebrionidae Crowson p. 698 |
| 1995 | Tenebrionidae Lawrence and Newton, Jr. p. 787 |
| 2011 | Tenebrionidae Bouchard et al. p. 64 |
| 2016 | Tenebrionidae Chang et al. p. 291 |
| 2018 | Tenebrionidae Batelka et al. |
| 2022 | Tenebrionidae Cai et al. |
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Fm. Tenebrionites Latreille 1802 [darkling beetle]
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Invalid names: Pimeliariae Latreille 1802 [empty], Tenebrionites Latreille 1802 [empty]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available