Alphitobius

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Endopterygota
Superordo: Coleopterida
Ordo: Coleoptera
Subordo: Polyphaga
Infraordo: Cucujiformia
Superfamilia: Tenebrionoidea

Familia: Tenebrionidae
Subfamilia: Tenebrioninae
Tribus: Alphitobiini
Genus: Alphitobius
Species: A. capitaneus – A. diaperinus – A. laevigatus – A. viator
Name
Alphitobius Stephens, 1829

Alphitobius is a genus of darkling beetles in the family Tenebrionidae. There are about 18 described species in Alphitobius.[1][2][3][4]
Alphitobius laevigatus

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

"Alphitobius Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
"Alphitobius". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
"Alphitobius genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2019-09-23.

Bousquet, Yves; Thomas, Donald B.; Bouchard, Patrice; Smith, Aaron D.; et al. (2018). "Catalogue of Tenebrionidae (Coleoptera) of North America". ZooKeys (728): 1–455. doi:10.3897/zookeys.728.20602. PMC 5799738. PMID 29416389.