| Strongylium | |
|---|---|
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| Strongylium terminatum | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Infraorder: | Cucujiformia |
| Family: | Tenebrionidae |
| Subfamily: | Stenochiinae |
| Tribe: | Stenochiini |
| Genus: | Strongylium Ditmar, 1809 |
| Diversity | |
| more than 700 species | |
Strongylium is a genus of darkling beetles in the family Tenebrionidae. It is one of the largest genera in the family and its subfamily Stenochiinae, with more than 1,400 known species[1] which occur widely in the tropics and subtropics of the Old and New World. More than 300 species are native to the neotropics.[2][3][4]
Gallery
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Strongylium cultellatum
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Strongylium purpuripenne
See also
References
- ↑ Wang, W.Q.; Li, P.; Yuan, C.X. (4 June 2018). "One new recorded species of the genus Strongylium (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) from China". Far Eastern Entomologist. 360: 15–20. doi:10.25221/FEE.360.2. S2CID 134289075.
- ↑ "Strongylium". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-12-30.
- ↑ "Strongylium genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2019-12-30.
- ↑ Bousquet, Yves; Thomas, Donald B.; Bouchard, Patrice; Smith, Aaron D.; et al. (2018). "Catalogue of Tenebrionidae (Coleoptera) of North America". ZooKeys (728): 1–455. doi:10.3897/zookeys.728.20602. PMC 5799738. PMID 29416389.
Further reading
- Lobl, I.; Smetana, A., eds. (2013). Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Volume 5: Tenebrionoidea. Apollo Books. ISBN 978-90-04-26090-0.
External links
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