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Churchyard Beetle

Blaps mucronata

Classification

Class
Insecta

Darkling beetle is the common name for members of the beetle family Tenebrionidae, comprising over 20,000 species in a cosmopolitan distribution. Taxonomy Tenebrio is the Latin generic name that Carl Linnaeus assigned to some flour beetles in his 10th edition of Systema Naturae 1758–59. The name means "lover of darkness"; the English language term 'darkling' means "characterised by darkness or obscurity"; see also English 'tenebrous', figuratively "obscure, gloomy."

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
France · 33United Kingdom · 31Switzerland · 14Italy · 5Belgium · 2Germany · 1Luxembourg · 1