Tribolium (beetle)

Tribolium is a genus of flour beetles in the family Tenebrionidae.[1]

Tribolium
Tribolium castaneum
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Tenebrionidae
Genus: Tribolium
Macleay 1825

Species

The genus contains the following species:[2]

  • Tribolium alcinae Hinton, 1948
  • Tribolium anaphe Hinton, 1948
  • Tribolium antennatum Hinton, 1948
  • Tribolium apiculum Neboiss, 1962
  • Tribolium arndti Grimm, 2001
  • Tribolium audax Halstead 1969 – American black flour beetle
  • Tribolium beccarii Gridelli, 1950
  • Tribolium bremeri Grimm, 2001
  • Tribolium castaneum (Herbst, 1797) – Red flour beetle
  • Tribolium ceto Hinton, 1948
  • Tribolium confusum Jaquelin Du Val, 1868 – Confused flour beetle
  • Tribolium cylindricum Hinton, 1948
  • Tribolium destructor Uyttenboogaart, 1934 – Large flour beetle, destructive flour beetle, false black flour beetle, dark flour beetle
  • Tribolium downesi Hinton, 1948
  • Tribolium ferreri Grimm, 2001
  • Tribolium ferrugineum (Fabricius, 1781)
  • Tribolium freemani Hinton 1948 – Kashmir flour beetle
  • Tribolium giganteum Hinton, 1948
  • Tribolium indicum Blair, 1930
  • Tribolium madens (Charpentier 1825) – Black flour beetle
  • Tribolium myrmecophilum Lea, 1904
  • Tribolium namibiensis Grimm, 2008
  • Tribolium parki Hinton, 1948
  • Tribolium politum Hinton, 1948
  • Tribolium quadricollis (Fairmaire, 1902)
  • Tribolium semele Hinton, 1948
  • Tribolium semicostatum (Gebien, 1910)
  • Tribolium sulmo Hinton, 1948
  • Tribolium thusa Hinton, 1948
  • Tribolium waterhousei Hinton, 1948

For T. brevicornis, T. carinatum, T. gebieni, T. parallelus, T. linsleyi, T. setosum, and T. uezumii, see Aphanotus.

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References
  1. Angelini, David R.; Jockusch, Elizabeth L. (January 2008). "Relationships among pest flour beetles of the genus Tribolium (Tenebrionidae) inferred from multiple molecular markers". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 46 (1): 127–141. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2007.08.017. ISSN 1055-7903. PMC 2292397. PMID 18024090.
  2. Hinton, H.E. (1948). "A synopsis of the genus Tribolium Macleay, with some remarks on the evolution of its species-group (Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae)". Bulletin og Entomological Research. 39 (1): 13–55. doi:10.1017/S0007485300024287. PMID 18865547.


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