Tribolium (beetle)

Tribolium
Tribolium castaneum
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Tenebrionidae
Subfamily: Tenebrioninae
Tribe: Triboliini
Genus: Tribolium
Macleay 1825

Tribolium is a genus of flour beetles in the family Tenebrionidae.[1] They are known by various common names including flour beetles, flour weevils, red weevils and bran bugs.[2]

  1. ^ Angelini, David R.; Jockusch, Elizabeth L. (January 2008). "Relationships among pest flour beetles of the genus Tribolium (Tenebrionidae) inferred from multiple molecular markers". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 46 (1): 127–141. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2007.08.017. ISSN 1055-7903. PMC 2292397. PMID 18024090.
  2. ^ Good, Newell E. (1936). "The flour beetles of the genus Tribolium" (PDF). USDA Report. 498: 1–58.