''Gnathocerus'' is a genus of
beetles
Beetles are insects that form the Taxonomic rank, order Coleoptera (), in the superorder Holometabola. Their front pair of wings are hardened into wing-cases, elytra, distinguishing them from most other insects. The Coleoptera, with about 40 ...
belonging to 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 ...
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The species of this genus are found in Europe, Africa and America.
Species:
* ''
Gnathocerus cornutus'' (Fabricius, 1798)
* ''
Gnathocerus maxillosus'' (Fabricius, 1810)
References
Tenebrionidae
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