Tenebrionoidea

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
Familiae (29): Aderidae – Anthicidae – Archeocrypticidae – Boridae – Chalcodryidae – Ciidae – Ischaliidae – Melandryidae – Meloidae – Mordellidae – Mycetophagidae – Mycteridae – Oedemeridae – Perimylopidae – Prostomidae – Pterogeniidae – Pyrochroidae – Pythidae – Ripiphoridae – Salpingidae – Scraptiidae – Stenotrachelidae – Synchroidae – Tenebrionidae – Tetratomidae – Trachelostenidae – Trictenotomidae – Ulodidae – Zopheridae – [sources: Bouchard et al. (2011), but with Ischaliidae treated as a family, following Young (2011), etc.]

Subfamiliae incertae sedis: Afreminae – Lagrioidinae
Note: Afreminae, Ischaliinae & Lagrioidinae appear to have been placed without comment as subfamilies of Scraptiidae by Bouchard et al. (2011), but this was due to an unfortunate error whereby the heading 'Tenebrionoidea incertae sedis' was inadvertently omitted; this error was corrected in Bouchard & Bousquet (2020)

Genera incertae sedis: Aprostomis – Rhizonium – †Wuhua
Name

Tenebrionoidea Latreille, 1802
References
Primary references

Latreille, P.A. 1802. Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière des crustacés et des insectes. Ouvrage faisant suite à l’histoire naturelle générale et particulière, composée par Leclerc de Buffon, et rédigée par C.S. Sonnini, membre de plusieurs sociétés savantes. Familles naturelles des genres. Tome troisième. F. Dufart, Paris, xii + pp. 13–467 + [1 (errata)]. BHL Reference page.

Additional references

Alonso-Zarazaga, M.A. 2014. On the identity of some weevil species described by Johann Christian Fabricius (1745–1808) in the Museum of Zoology of Copenhagen (Coleoptera, Cucujoidea, Curculionoidea, Tenebrionoidea). ZooKeys 451: 61–91. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.451.8462 Reference page.
Beutel, R.G.; Friedrich, F. 2005: Comparative study of larvae of Tenebrionoidea (Coleoptera: Cucujiformia). European journal of entomology, 102: 241–264.
Bouchard, P. & Bousquet, Y. 2020. Additions and corrections to “Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta)”. ZooKeys 922: 65–139. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.922.46367 Open access. Reference page.
Bouchard, P.; Smith, A.D. (eds.) 2014: Proceedings of the Third International Tenebrionoidea Symposium, Arizona, USA, 2013. ZooKeys, (415) Reference page.
Bouchard, P., Bousquet, Y., Davies, A.E., Alonso-Zarazaga, M.A., Lawrence, J.F., Lyal, C.H.C., Newton, A.F., Reid, C.A.M., Schmitt, M., Ślipiński, S.A. & Smith, A.B.T. 2011. Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta). ZooKeys 88: 1–972. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.88.807 Open access. PMC: 3088472 Open access. Reference page.
Gunter, N.L. et al. 2014: Towards a phylogeny of darkling beetles, the Tenebrionoidea (Coleoptera). Molecular phylogenetics and evolution, DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2014.05.028 Reference page.
Lawrence, J.F.; Beutel, R.G.; Leschen, R.A.B.; Ślipiński, A. 2010: 1. Changes in classification and list of families and subfamilies. Pp. 1-7 in: Leschen, R.A.B.; Beutel, R.G.; Lawrence, J.F. (volume eds.) Coleoptera, beetles. Volume 2: Morphology and systematics (Elateroidea, Bostrichiformia, Cucujiformia partim). In: Kristensen, N.P. & Beutel, R.G. (eds.) Handbook of zoology. A natural history of the phyla of the animal kingdom. Volume IV. Arthropoda: Insecta. Part 38. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter. ISBN 3110190753 ISBN 9783110190755
Lawrence, J.F.; Pollock, D.A.; Ślipiński, A. 2010: 11. Tenebrionoidea. Introduction, phylogeny. Pp. 487-491 in: Leschen, R.A.B.; Beutel, R.G.; Lawrence, J.F. (volume eds.) Coleoptera, beetles. Volume 2: Morphology and systematics (Elateroidea, Bostrichiformia, Cucujiformia partim). In: Kristensen, N.P. & Beutel, R.G. (eds.) Handbook of zoology. A natural history of the phyla of the animal kingdom. Volume IV. Arthropoda: Insecta. Part 38. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter. ISBN 3110190753 ISBN 9783110190755
Lawrence, J.F.; Escalona, H.; Leschen, R.A.B. 2010: 11.29. Tenebrionoidea Incertae sedis. Pp. 750-760 in: Leschen, R.A.B.; Beutel, R.G.; Lawrence, J.F. (volume eds.) Coleoptera, beetles. Volume 2: Morphology and systematics (Elateroidea, Bostrichiformia, Cucujiformia partim). In: Kristensen, N.P. & Beutel, R.G. (eds.) Handbook of zoology. A natural history of the phyla of the animal kingdom. Volume IV. Arthropoda: Insecta. Part 38. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter. ISBN 3110190753 ISBN 9783110190755 DOI: 10.1515/9783110911213.750
Leschen, R.A.B. 1990: Tenebrionoid-basidiomycete relationships with comments on feeding ecology and the evolution of fungal monophagy (Coleoptera/Hymenomycetes). University of Kansas science bulletin 54(5): 165–177. BHL Reference page.
Wang, B.; Zhang, H. 2011: The oldest Tenebrionoidea (Coleoptera) from the Middle Jurassic of China. Journal of paleontology, 85(2): 266–270. DOI: 10.1666/09-088.1
Watt, J.C. 1974: Chalcodryidae: a new family of heteromerous beetles (Coleoptera: Tenebrionoidea). Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 4: 19–38. Google books BUGZ
Young, D.K. 2011: A new Asian subgenus and species of Ischalia (Coleoptera: Ischaliidae) with an assessment of subgeneric concepts, revised world checklist, and keys to the subgenera and "blue elytra" species. Zootaxa, 2811: 53–58. Preview

Links

Australian Faunal Directory
Pollock, Darren A. 1995. Tenebrionoidea. Version 01 January 1995 (temporary) in The Tree of Life Web Project
Atlas of beetles of Russia: superfamily TENEBRIONOIDEA
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Vernacular names
日本語: ゴミムシダマシ上科
한국어: 거저리상과
中文: 擬步行蟲總科

The Tenebrionoidea are a very large and diverse superfamily of beetles.[1] It generally corresponds to the Heteromera of earlier authors.

It contains these families:

Aderidae Winkler 1927 (ant-like leaf beetles)
Anthicidae Latreille 1819 (ant-like flower beetles)
†Apotomouridae Bao et al. 2018
Archeocrypticidae Kaszab 1964
Boridae C. G. Thomson 1859
Chalcodryidae Watt 1974
Ciidae Leach 1819 (minute tree-fungus beetles) (= Cisidae)
Melandryidae Leach 1815 (false darkling beetles)
Meloidae Gyllenhal 1810 (blister beetles)
Mordellidae Latreille 1802 (tumbling flower beetles)
Mycetophagidae Leach 1815 (hairy fungus beetles)
Mycteridae Blanchard 1845
Oedemeridae Latreille 1810 (false blister beetles)
Perimylopidae St. George 1939
Prostomidae C. G. Thomson 1859
Pterogeniidae Crowson 1953
Pyrochroidae Latreille 1807 (fire-colored beetles, etc.)
Pythidae Solier 1834
Ripiphoridae Gemminger and Harold 1870 (wedge-shaped beetles) (= Rhipiphoridae)
Salpingidae Leach 1815 (narrow-waisted bark beetles, etc.)
Scraptiidae Mulsant 1856 (false flower beetles)
Stenotrachelidae C. G. Thomson 1859 (false long-horned beetles) (= Cephaloidae)
Synchroidae Lacordaire 1859
Tenebrionidae Latreille 1802 (darkling beetles)
Tetratomidae Billberg 1820
Trachelostenidae Lacordaire 1859
Trictenotomidae Blanchard 1845
Ulodidae Pascoe 1869
Zopheridae Solier 1834 (ironclad beetles, cylindrical bark beetles, etc.)

References

Beutel, RG; Friedrich, F (2005). "Comparative study of larvae of Tenebrionoidea (Coleoptera: Cucujiformia)" (PDF). European Journal of Entomology. 102: 241–264. Retrieved 22 June 2018.