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Strongylium
Strongylium terminatum
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
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 which occur widely in the tropics and subtropics of the Old and New World. More than 300 species are native to the neotropics.

Gallery

• Strongylium auratum
• Strongylium crenatum
• Strongylium cultellatum
• Strongylium cf. erythrocephalum
• Strongylium purpuripenne
• Strongylium tenuicolle

See also

• List of Strongylium species

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.

Further reading

• Lobl, I.; Smetana, A., eds. (2013). Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Volume 5: Tenebrionoidea. Apollo Books. ISBN 978-90-04-26090-0.

External links

• Media related to Strongylium at Wikimedia Commons

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