Darkling beetle

Darkling beetle Temporal range: Late Jurassic–Recent PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Alphitobius sp. (Tenebrioninae: Alphitobiini) Scale bar (top right) is 2 mm
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Cucujiformia
Superfamily:	Tenebrionoidea
Family:	Tenebrionidae Latreille, 1802
Subfamilies
See text
Synonyms
Alleculidae

Darkling beetle is the common name for members of the beetle family Tenebrionidae, comprising over 20,000 species in a cosmopolitan distribution.