Strongylium

Strongylium is a genus of darkling beetles in the family Tenebrionidae. It is one of the largest genera in the family and its subfamily Stenochiinae, with more than 1,400 known species[1] which occur widely in the tropics and subtropics of the Old and New World. More than 300 species are native to the neotropics.[2][3][4]

Strongylium
Strongylium terminatum
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Tenebrionidae
Subfamily: Stenochiinae
Tribe: Stenochiini
Genus: Strongylium
Ditmar, 1809
Diversity
more than 700 species
  • Strongylium auratum
  • Strongylium crenatum
  • Strongylium cultellatum
  • Strongylium cf. erythrocephalum
  • Strongylium purpuripenne
  • Strongylium tenuicolle

See also

References
  1. Wang, W.Q.; Li, P.; Yuan, C.X. (4 June 2018). "One new recorded species of the genus Strongylium (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) from China". Far Eastern Entomologist. 360: 15–20. doi:10.25221/FEE.360.2. Retrieved 3 December 2021.
  2. "Strongylium". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-12-30.
  3. "Strongylium genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2019-12-30.
  4. 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.

Further reading
  • Lobl, I.; Smetana, A., eds. (2013). Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Volume 5: Tenebrionoidea. Apollo Books. ISBN 978-90-04-26090-0.


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