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Definition of Family Tenebrionidae
1. Noun. A family of arthropods including darkling beetles and mealworms.
Generic synonyms: Arthropod Family
Group relationships: Coleoptera, Order Coleoptera
Member holonyms: Darkling Beetle, Darkling Groung Beetle, Tenebrionid, Mealworm, Genus Tribolium, Tribolium
Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Tenebrionidae
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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