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Tenebrio
Taxonomy
Tenebrio was named by Linnaeus (1758). It is extant. It is the type genus of Tenebrionidae, Tenebrionoidea, Tenebrioninae, Tenebrionini, Tenebrionites, Tenebrionites.
It was assigned to Coleoptera by Linnaeus (1758), Linnaeus (1761), Geoffroy (1762), Scopoli (1763), Müller (1764), Schaeffer (1766), Linnaeus (1767), Forster (1771), Müller (1776) and Latreille (1796); to Eleuterata by Fabricius (1775) and Fabricius (1798); to Tenebrionites by Latreille (1802); to Tenebrionidae by Scudder (1890) and Scudder (1900); and to Tenebrionini by Kirejtshuk et al. (2008), Bouchard et al. (2011), Bousquet et al. (2018), Nabozhenko (2019) and Bouchard et al. (2021).
It was assigned to Coleoptera by Linnaeus (1758), Linnaeus (1761), Geoffroy (1762), Scopoli (1763), Müller (1764), Schaeffer (1766), Linnaeus (1767), Forster (1771), Müller (1776) and Latreille (1796); to Eleuterata by Fabricius (1775) and Fabricius (1798); to Tenebrionites by Latreille (1802); to Tenebrionidae by Scudder (1890) and Scudder (1900); and to Tenebrionini by Kirejtshuk et al. (2008), Bouchard et al. (2011), Bousquet et al. (2018), Nabozhenko (2019) and Bouchard et al. (2021).
Species
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1758 | Tenebrio Linnaeus p. 417 |
| 1761 | Tenebrio Linnaeus p. 224 |
| 1762 | Tenebrio Geoffroy p. 345 |
| 1763 | Tenebrio Scopoli p. 81 |
| 1764 | Tenebrio Müller p. 21 |
| 1766 | Tenebrio Schaeffer |
| 1767 | Tenebrio Linnaeus p. 674 |
| 1771 | Tenebrio Forster p. 60 |
| 1775 | Tenebrio Fabricius p. 255 |
| 1776 | Tenebrio Müller p. 74 |
| 1796 | Tenebrio Latreille p. 15 |
| 1798 | Tenebrio Fabricius p. 48 |
| 1802 | Tenebrio Latreille p. 173 |
| 1890 | Tenebrio Scudder p. 483 |
| 1900 | Tenebrio Scudder p. 114 |
| 2008 | Tenebrio Kirejtshuk et al. |
| 2011 | Tenebrio Bouchard et al. |
| 2018 | Tenebrio Bousquet et al. p. 215 |
| 2019 | Tenebrio Nabozhenko p. 6 |
| 2021 | Tenebrio Bouchard et al. |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
G. Tenebrio Linnaeus 1758
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†Tenebrio effossus Germar 1837
†Tenebrio primigenius Scudder 1879
†Tenebrio senex Von Heyden 1859
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available