family Tenebrionidae
The Darkling Beetles
The Darkling Beetles
Tenebrionidae, is a large family of beetles often called the darkling beetles. While it is extremely diverse, at this moment this website is currently focusing on the tribe Amphidorini, or the desert stink beetles, of the subfamily Blaptinae.
(all images and valid names are clickable under Amphidorini, the same is true for some subfamilies)
Subfamily Alleclinae NO INFO
Subfamily Diaperinae NO INFO
Subfamily Lagriinae NO INFO
Subfamily Phrenapatinae NO INFO
Subfamily Tentyriinae NO INFO
-the following abbreviations will be used for continents, countries, and subdivisions-
North America (United States exculding Hawaii, Canada, Mexico, Greenland (Denmark), Belize to Panama, The Bahamas to Trinidad and Tobago) - NA
South America (Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana (France), Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay, Argentina, Chile) - SA
Europe (Iceland to Turkey northwest of the Turkish Strait, Portugal to the Ural Mountains in Russia, excluding: Cyprus, mainland Turkey, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Kazakhstan, and Russia east of the Ural Mountains) - EU
Asia (Turkey southeast of the Turkish Strait to Indonesia outside of New Guinea, Russia to Yemen, also including Egypt east of the Suez Canal, excluding what is defined above as well as the island of New Guinea and mainland Egypt) - AS
Africa- AF
Oceania- OC