The confused flour beetle, Tribolium confusum Jacquelin du Val (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) is a stored-product pest that contaminates a wide range of food products, from flour and cereals to spices. The insect reduces food quality and is responsible for large economic losses every year. Although several methods for detection of stored-product pests are common and widely used, they are time-cons...

Microdera punctipennis Kaszab (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) is an endemic species in Guerbantonggut desert in China. To explore the ways that M. punctipennis egg adapts to dry desert environment, morphological characteristics of the egg was investigated along with the egg of the nondesert beetle Tenebrio molitor (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae). Water loss rate and survival rate of these eggs under di...

DUE TO A DIVERSITY OF HABITATS AND ITS GEOLOGIC HISTORY, THE US STATE OF CALIFORNIA HOSTS A SPECTACULAR ASSEMBLAGE OF DARKLING BEETLE SPECIES (COLEOPTERA: Tenebrionidae). In addition to being part of the California Floristic Province, one of 34 global biodiversity hotspots identified by Conservation International, California also has additional areas which are parts of the Great Basin, Mojave, ...

Ectromopsis merkli sp. n. (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: Helopini) is described from Central Anatolia (coast of E?irdir Lake). The species the most similar to E. tantilla Ménétriés, 1848 Caspian depression (European Russia, West Kazakhstan) and differs in body shape, structure genae, shape pronotum elytral punctation. Brief information about a relic type distribution, trophic associations adaptati...

We synthesize data on all known extant and fossil Coleoptera family-group names for the first time. A catalogue of 4887 family-group names (124 fossil, 4763 extant) based on 4707 distinct genera in Coleoptera is given. A total of 4492 names are available, 183 of which are permanently invalid because they are based on a preoccupied or a suppressed type genus. Names are listed in a classification...

The occurrence of of microstoma (Dujal'din) Cestrinus Pascoe (Tenebrionidae) and the Mus musculus L. from the Hobart, Tasmania, is Five of the mice and 36 of the 1,356 C. punctatissimus examined were found infected. Both the adult and thc larval stages of tbe cestode are described. Experimentally infected vid proglottides 1'7 cysticercoids. The In the first 16 days, white mice voided gra,after ...