Alphitobius Karrooensis
''Alphitobius'' is a genus of darkling beetles in the family Tenebrionidae. There are about 18 described species in ''Alphitobius''. Species These 18 species belong to the genus ''Alphitobius'': * ''Alphitobius acutangulus'' Gebien, 1921 * ''Alphitobius arnoldi'' * ''Alphitobius capitaneus'' Schawaller & Grimm, 2014 * ''Alphitobius crenatus'' (Klug, 1833) * ''Alphitobius diaperinus'' (Panzer, 1797) (lesser mealworm) * ''Alphitobius grandis'' Fairmaire, 1897 * ''Alphitobius hobohmi'' Koch, 1953 * ''Alphitobius karrooensis'' Koch, 1953 * ''Alphitobius kochi'' Ardoin, 1958 * ''Alphitobius laevigatus'' (Fabricius, 1781) (black fungus beetle) * ''Alphitobius lamottei'' Ardoin, 1963 * ''Alphitobius leleupi'' Koch, 1953 * ''Alphitobius limbalis'' Fairmaire, 1901 * ''Alphitobius lucasorum'' Bremer, 1985 * ''Alphitobius niger'' Ferrer, 1983 * ''Alphitobius parallelipennis'' Koch, 1953 * ''Alphitobius rugosulus'' Koch, 1953 * ''Alphitobius viator'' Mulsant & Godart, 1868 References Fu ...
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Darkling Beetle
Darkling beetle is the common name for members of the beetle family Tenebrionidae. The number of species in the Tenebrionidae is estimated at more than 20,000 and the family is cosmopolitan in distribution. Taxonomy ''Tenebrio'' is the Latin generic name that Carl Linnaeus assigned to some flour beetles in his ''10th edition of Systema Naturae'' 1758-59. The word means "seeker of dark places" (or figuratively a trickster); an English language analogy is "darkling". Numerous Tenebrionidae species do inhabit dark places, however, there are many species in genera such as ''Stenocara'' and ''Onymacris'', which are active by day and inactive at night. The family covers a varied range of forms, such that classification presents great difficulties. These eleven subfamilies were listed in the 2021 review by Bouchard, Bousquet, ''et al.'', updating a similar catalog from 2005.Bouchard, Patrice. Lawrence, John F. Davies, Anthony E. Newton, Alfred F. Synoptic Classification of the World Te ...
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