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Strongylium
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Infraorder: Cucujiformia
Family: Tenebrionidae
Subfamily: Stenochiinae
Tribe: Stenochiini
Genus: Strongylium
Ditmar, 1809
Diversity
more than 700 species

Strongylium is a genus of darkling beetles in the family Tenebrionidae. It is one of the largest genera in the family and its subfamily Stenochiinae, with more than 1,400 known species [1] which occur widely in the tropics and subtropics of the Old and New World. More than 300 species are native to the neotropics. [2] [3] [4]

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References

  1. ↑ Wang, W.Q.; Li, P.; Yuan, C.X. (4 June 2018). "One new recorded species of the genus Strongylium (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) from China". Far Eastern Entomologist. 360: 15–20. doi: 10.25221/FEE.360.2 . S2CID   134289075.
  2. ↑ "Strongylium". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-12-30.
  3. ↑ "Strongylium genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2019-12-30.
  4. ↑ Bousquet, Yves; Thomas, Donald B.; Bouchard, Patrice; Smith, Aaron D.; et al. (2018). "Catalogue of Tenebrionidae (Coleoptera) of North America". ZooKeys (728): 1–455. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.728.20602 . PMC   5799738 . PMID   29416389.

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