Definition of Family Tenebrionidae

1. Noun. A family of arthropods including darkling beetles and mealworms.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Tenebrionidae

family Syngnathidae
family Synodontidae
family Tabanidae
family Taccaceae
family Tachinidae
family Tachyglossidae
family Taeniidae
family Talpidae
family Tamaricaceae
family Tapiridae
family Tarsiidae
family Taxaceae
family Tecophilaeacea
family Teiidae
family Tenebrionidae (current term)
family Tenrecidae
family Tenthredinidae
family Terebellidae
family Teredinidae
family Termitidae
family Testudinidae
family Tethyidae
family Tetragoniaceae
family Tetranychidae
family Tetraodontidae
family Tetraonidae
family Tettigoniidae
family Theaceae
family Thelephoraceae

Literary usage of Family Tenebrionidae

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Fauna of Mayfield's Cave by Arthur Mangun Banta (1907)
"Family TENEBRIONIDAE. A larva of a species of this family was found in April, 1904, under a piece of rotten wood at "10." It had probably been carried in by ..."

2. Entomological News and Proceedings of the Entomological Section of the by Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia Entomological Section (1921)
"Of the family Tenebrionidae about species of widely varying form and size are known, and about 750 of these occur within the limits of the United States. ..."

3. Entomology for Beginners for the Use of Young Folks, Fruit-growers, Farmers by Alpheus Spring Packard (1888)
"family Tenebrionidae.—Tarsal claws simple; 5 ventral segments, in part connate; antennae usually thickened towards the end; anterior and middle tarsi ..."

4. A Manual on the Study of Insects by John Henry Comstock, Anna Botsford Comstock (1895)
"On the Pacific coast, however, the darkling beetles (family Tenebrionidae), which are also black and have long legs, abound under stones and fragments of ..."

5. Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine (1869)
"... I propose to describe in this Magazine such of the new Australian species as belong to the family Tenebrionidae, adding several more derived from other ..."

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