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Wednesday, May 27, 2015

The Tenebrionoidea are a very large and diverse superfamily of beetles. It generally corresponds to the Heteromera of earlier authors.

It contains these families:

  • Aderidae Winkler 1927 (ant-like leaf beetles)
  • Anthicidae Latreille 1819 (ant-like flower beetles)
  • Archeocrypticidae Kaszab 1964
  • Boridae C. G. Thomson 1859
  • Chalcodryidae Watt 1974
  • Ciidae Leach 1819 (minute tree-fungus beetles) (= Cisidae)
  • Melandryidae Leach 1815 (false darkling beetles)
  • Meloidae Gyllenhal 1810 (blister beetles)
  • Mordellidae Latreille 1802 (tumbling flower beetles)
  • Mycetophagidae Leach 1815 (hairy fungus beetles)
  • Mycteridae Blanchard 1845
  • Oedemeridae Latreille 1810 (false blister beetles)
  • Perimylopidae St. George 1939
  • Prostomidae C. G. Thomson 1859
  • Pterogeniidae Crowson 1953
  • Pyrochroidae Latreille 1807 (fire-colored beetles, etc.)
  • Pythidae Solier 1834
  • Ripiphoridae Gemminger and Harold 1870 (wedge-shaped beetles) (= Rhipiphoridae)
  • Salpingidae Leach 1815 (narrow-waisted bark beetles, etc.)
  • Scraptiidae Mulsant 1856 (false flower beetles)
  • Stenotrachelidae C. G. Thomson 1859 (false long-horned beetles) (= Cephaloidae)
  • Synchroidae Lacordaire 1859
  • Tenebrionidae Latreille 1802 (darkling beetles)
  • Tetratomidae Billberg 1820
  • Trachelostenidae Lacordaire 1859
  • Trictenotomidae Blanchard 1845
  • Ulodidae Pascoe 1869
  • Zopheridae Solier 1834 (ironclad beetles, cylindrical bark beetles, etc.)

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