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Species
false darkling beetles
FAMILY
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassInsecta
- OrderColeoptera
- FamilyMelandryidae
Observations recorded84,720
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 932
- With media
- 194
- Family
- Melandryidae
- Collections
- INECOL, UAM, UTC, UCMP
- Recorded in
- Mexico, United States
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Encyclopedic overview
3 sectionsContents
- Genera
- References
- External links
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Melandryidae is a family of beetles in the superfamily Tenebrionoidea. Members of the family are found worldwide, with around 420 species in 60 genera. Larvae and adults are generally associated with rotting wood and wood-decomposing fungi.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Melandryidae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.