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 2000Republic of Niger 2000
Fog-basking Beetle
Onymacris unguicularis
(Tenebrionidae)
Darkling Beetle
Stenocara eburnea
(Tenebrionidae)
Mongolia 1972Botswana 2003Papua New Guinea 2005Mongolia 1972
Darkling Beetle
Sternoplax zichyi
(Tenebrionidae)
Broad-necked Darkling Beetle
Coelocnemis californicus
(Tenebrionidae)
Long-Jointed Beetle
Bothricara pulchella
(Tenebrionidae)
Darkling Beetle
Platyope mongolica
(Tenebrionidae)
Tokelau Islands 1998Republic of Guinea 1998Tokelau Islands 1998
Rust Red Flour Beetle
Tribolium castaneum
(Tenebrionidae)
Darkling Beetle
Tenebria mollitor
(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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