''Boromorphus'' is a genus of
darkling beetle
Darkling beetle is the common name for members of the beetle family Tenebrionidae, comprising over 20,000 species in a cosmopolitan distribution.
Taxonomy
''Tenebrio'' is the Latin generic name that Carl Linnaeus assigned to some flour beetles ...
s in the family
Tenebrionidae
Darkling beetle is the common name for members of the beetle family Tenebrionidae, comprising over 20,000 species in a cosmopolitan distribution.
Taxonomy
''Tenebrio'' is the Latin generic name that Carl Linnaeus assigned to some flour beetles ...
. There are at least four described species in ''Boromorphus'', found in the
Palearctic
The Palearctic or Palaearctic is a biogeographic realm of the Earth, the largest of eight. Confined almost entirely to the Eastern Hemisphere, it stretches across Europe and Asia, north of the foothills of the Himalayas, and North Africa.
Th ...
. It is the sole genus in its tribe, Boromorphini.
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Species
These species belong to the genus ''Boromorphus'':
* '' Boromorphus italicus'' Gardini, 2010[
* '' Boromorphus saudicus'' Schawaller, 2013][
* '' Boromorphus parvus'' Wollaston, 1865
* '' Boromorphus tagenioides'' (Lucas, 1849)
]
References
Tenebrionidae genera
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