Scotobiini is a tribe of

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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 about six genera in Scotobiini, found in the

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Genera

These genera belong to the tribe Scotobiini: * '' Ammophorus'' Guérin-Méneville, 1831 * '' Diastoleus'' Solier, 1838 * '' Emmallodera'' Blanchard, 1842 * '' Leptynoderes'' Solier, 1838 * '' Pumiliofossorum'' Silvestro & Giraldo-Mendoza, 2015 * '' Scotobius'' Germar, 1823

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