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''Strongylium'' is a genus of darkling beetles 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 ...
. It is one of the largest genera in both the family and its subfamily,
Stenochiinae
Stenochiinae is a subfamily of darkling beetles in the family Tenebrionidae. There are more than 390 genera in Stenochiinae.
Tribes and selected genera
''BioLib'' includes 3 tribes: Cnodalonini
Authority: Oken, 1843: over 340 genera including ...
, with more than 1,400 known species.
These beetles are widely distributed in the tropics and subtropics of the
Old and
New World
The term "New World" is used to describe the majority of lands of Earth's Western Hemisphere, particularly the Americas, and sometimes Oceania."America." ''The Oxford Companion to the English Language'' (). McArthur, Tom, ed., 1992. New York: ...
. More than 300 species are native to the
Neotropics
The Neotropical realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms constituting Earth's land surface. Physically, it includes the tropical terrestrial ecoregions of the Americas and the entire South American temperate zone.
Definition
In biogeog ...
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Gallery
Strongylium auratum.jpg, ''Strongylium auratum''
Strongylium crenatum (49975186706).jpg, ''Strongylium crenatum''
Strongylium cultellatum (Maklin, 1864) Darkling Beetle Tenebrionidae (16284030765).jpg, ''Strongylium cultellatum''
Strongylium_from_Laos.jpg, ''Strongylium'' cf. ''erythrocephalum''
Metallic Tree Darkling Beetle (Strongylium purpuripenne) (11670840164).jpg, ''Strongylium purpuripenne''
Strongylium tenuicolle.jpg, '' Strongylium tenuicolle''
See also
* List of Strongylium species
References
Further reading
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External links
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Tenebrionidae
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