Species
Phryganophilus collaris (Collared false darkling beetle)
Phryganophilus collaris. Photo: (c) Liz, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)
The Melandryidae or false darkling beetles are a family of beetles in the large suborder Polyphaga.
- Humboldt Life
- Kingdom: Animalia (Animals)
- Phylum: Arthropoda (Arthropods)
- Subphylum: Hexapoda (Hexapods)
- Class: Insecta (Insects)
- Subclass: Pterygota (Winged and once-winged insects)
- Order: Coleoptera (Beetles)
- Suborder: Polyphaga (Water, rove, scarab, long-horned, leaf, and snout beetles)
- Infraorder: Cucujiformia (Cucujiform beetles)
- Superfamily: Tenebrionoidea (Darkling beetles and allies)
- Family: Melandryidae (False darkling beetles)
- Subfamily: Melandryinae
- Tribe: Melandryini
- Genus: Phryganophilus
- Species: Phryganophilus collaris (Collared false darkling beetle)
- Genus: Phryganophilus
- Tribe: Melandryini
- Subfamily: Melandryinae
- Family: Melandryidae (False darkling beetles)
- Superfamily: Tenebrionoidea (Darkling beetles and allies)
- Infraorder: Cucujiformia (Cucujiform beetles)
- Suborder: Polyphaga (Water, rove, scarab, long-horned, leaf, and snout beetles)
- Order: Coleoptera (Beetles)
- Subclass: Pterygota (Winged and once-winged insects)
- Class: Insecta (Insects)
- Subphylum: Hexapoda (Hexapods)
- Phylum: Arthropoda (Arthropods)
- Kingdom: Animalia (Animals)
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