The insect, Opatroides punctulatus Brullé, is part of the family Tenebrionidae, commonly known as darkling beetles — encompassing about 20,000 ground-dwelling beetle species that feed on ...

† Hubei Insect Resources Utilization and Sustainable Pest Management Key Laboratory, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, People's Republic of China ‡ Department of Chemistry, College of ...

Lorayne Meltzer has lived along the Gulf of California for 30 years. As an ecologist and director of a binational field station, she’s supported many scientists in their research into this ...

The department confirmed to Newsweek that they "belonged to the Coleoptera (beetle) families Scarabaeidae, Lucanidae and ...

While many studies suggest adverse effects, some have shown that certain species of Tenebrionidae beetles can use plastic as a food source in controlled laboratory settings. However, these experiments ...

Darkling beetles belong to the Tenebrionidae family, one of the world’s largest beetle groups with about 30,000 species worldwide, including some 1500 recorded in Australia. These critters have ...

The darkling beetles may be of the Tenebrionidae beetle family, which includes more than 15,000 species, WSU Extension has previously told the Herald. It said that insecticide sprays may not be ...

Blue death feigning beetles belong to the family Tenebrionidae. This is a large family of cosmopolitan beetles, commonly called darkling beetles. There are more than 20,000 species of beetles in this ...

The increase in elevation of the sampled sites did not produce significant changes in the abundance and richness of Tenebrionidae. There is no individual factor responsible for the darkling beetle ...