family Tenebrionidae


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Noun1.family Tenebrionidae - a family of arthropods including darkling beetles and mealwormsfamily Tenebrionidae - a family of arthropods including darkling beetles and mealworms
arthropod family - any of the arthropods
darkling beetle, darkling groung beetle, tenebrionid - sluggish hard-bodied black terrestrial weevil whose larvae feed on e.g. decaying plant material or grain
mealworm - the larva of beetles of the family Tenebrionidae
genus Tribolium, Tribolium - flour beetles
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Notable groups with high levels of species richness in deserts include beetles, especially the family Tenebrionidae (Seely, 1991; Ayal and Merkl, 1994; Ward and Seely, 1996; Barrows, 2000).