''Tarpela'' 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 about five described species in ''Tarpela''.
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Species
These five species belong to the genus ''Tarpela'':
* '' Tarpela formosana'' Masumoto, 1981 g
* '' Tarpela micans'' (Fabricius Fabricius (, ) is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
*people from the Ancient Roman Fabricia gens, gens Fabricia:
**Gaius Fabricius Luscinus, the first of the Fabricii to move to Rome
* Johann Goldsmid (1587–1616), known by his ...
, 1798) g b
* '' Tarpela undulata'' (LeConte, 1866) b
* '' Tarpela venusta'' (Say, 124) b
* '' Tarpela zoltani'' Masumoto, 1981 g
Data sources: i = ITIS,[ c = Catalogue of Life,][ g = GBIF,][ b = Bugguide.net]
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Tenebrioninae
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