Darkling Beetle

Republic of Guinea 1998Cambodia 2000Qatar 1998
Churchyard Beetle
Blaps mucronata
(Tenebrionidae)
Darkling Beetle
Blaps gigas
(Tenebrionidae)
Arabian Darkling Beetle
Pimelia arabica
(Tenebrionidae)
Namibia 2000Botswana 2008Botswana 2003Republic of Niger 2000
Scott:669
Fog-basking Beetle
Onymacris unguicularis
(Tenebrionidae)
Darkling Beetle
Eleodes sp.
(Tenebrionidae)
Broad-necked Darkling Beetle
Coelocnemis californicus
(Tenebrionidae)
Darkling Beetle
Stenocara eburnea
(Tenebrionidae)
Mongolia 1972Republic of Guinea 1998Mongolia 1972
Scott:669 Scott:673
Darkling Beetle
Sternoplax zichyi
(Tenebrionidae)
Darkling Beetle
Tenebria mollitor
(Tenebrionidae)
Darkling Beetle
Platyope mongolica
(Tenebrionidae)
Tokelau Islands 1998Papua New Guinea 2005Tokelau Islands 1998
Scott:256 Scott:258
Rust Red Flour Beetle
Tribolium castaneum
(Tenebrionidae)
Long-Jointed Beetle
Bothricara pulchella
(Tenebrionidae)
Darkling Beetle
Amarygmas hydrophiloides
(Tenebrionidae)


In almost all cases, the color of the body of the beetle of Darkling Beetle is black or yellow. Some a seed has a skillful spot or an upper wing is white. Some beetle's body shape was the thickset, another beetle's body shape was the parallel and other's body form is large-sized and broad egg-shaped. For many, These beetles are the sweeper, and they are eaten rotten plants and animal matter. Moreover, an imago takes out a disagreeable stinking thing secretion from a special abdomen to protect the body. It is found by all terrestrial environment and is prosperous also to especially a desert and an arid region.

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