The Tenebrionoidea are a very large and diverse superfamily of beetles. It generally corresponds to the Heteromera of earlier authors.
It contains these families:
Aderidae Winkler 1927 (ant-like leaf beetles)Anthicidae Latreille 1819 (ant-like flower beetles)Archeocrypticidae Kaszab 1964Boridae C. G. Thomson 1859Chalcodryidae Watt 1974Ciidae Leach 1819 (minute tree-fungus beetles) (= Cisidae)Melandryidae Leach 1815 (false darkling beetles)Meloidae Gyllenhal 1810 (blister beetles)Mordellidae Latreille 1802 (tumbling flower beetles)Mycetophagidae Leach 1815 (hairy fungus beetles)Mycteridae Blanchard 1845Oedemeridae Latreille 1810 (false blister beetles)Perimylopidae St. George 1939Prostomidae C. G. Thomson 1859Pterogeniidae Crowson 1953Pyrochroidae Latreille 1807 (fire-colored beetles, etc.)Pythidae Solier 1834Ripiphoridae Gemminger and Harold 1870 (wedge-shaped beetles) (= Rhipiphoridae)Salpingidae Leach 1815 (narrow-waisted bark beetles, etc.)Scraptiidae Mulsant 1856 (false flower beetles)Stenotrachelidae C. G. Thomson 1859 (false long-horned beetles) (= Cephaloidae)Synchroidae Lacordaire 1859Tenebrionidae Latreille 1802 (darkling beetles)Tetratomidae Billberg 1820Trachelostenidae Lacordaire 1859Trictenotomidae Blanchard 1845Ulodidae Pascoe 1869Zopheridae Solier 1834 (ironclad beetles, cylindrical bark beetles, etc.)
