This mentioned taxonomy is an attempt to make an conclusive assignment from the different classifications of various scientists. Because the taxonomy may change due to the latest investigative methods and other findings, our map is a guide only.
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M. V. Nabozhenko, 2020 - The oldest Tenebrionidae (Coleoptera) of the subfamily Diaperinae and the tribe Scaphidemini from the Paleocene of Menat (France) - Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae (66), 23-33 (journal article, English)
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M. V. Nabozhenko, 2019 - Gonialaenini, a new tribe of Lagriinae (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) from Eocene Baltic amber - Zootaxa (4565), 253-260 (journal article, English)
M. V. Nabozhenko, 2019 - The fossil record of darkling beetles (Insecta: Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) - Geosciences (9), 1-20 (journal article, English)
D. Telnov, 2019 - Description of a new fossil Statira Lepeletier et Audinet-Serville, 1828 (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: Lagriinae) from Baltic amber of the Sambian Peninsula - Zootaxa (4683), 508-514 (journal article, English)
V. Novák, 2019 - Amberophlus niger gen. nov and sp. nov. of the tribe Cteniopodini Solier, 1835 (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: Alleculinae) from Baltic amber - Folia Heyrovskyana, Series A (27), 128-131 (journal article, English)
R. Lumen, 2019 - Revision of the genus Ulus Horn, 1870 (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: Opatrini, Blapstinina) - Annales Zoologici (69), 827-856 (journal article, English)
J. Batelka, 2018 - A remarkable diversity of parasitoid beetles (Ripiphoridae) in Cretaceous amber, with a summary of the Mesozoic record of Tenebrionoidea - Cretaceous Research (90), 296-310 (journal article, English)
M. V. Nabozhenko, 2018 - New and little known species of Alleculini (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: Alleculinae): extinсt from Eocene Baltic Amber and extant from Lebanon - Caucasian Entomological Bulletin (14), 171-176 (journal article, English)
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P. Bouchard, 2018 - Hymenorus campbelli, in Catalogue of Tenebrionidae (Coleoptera) of North America - ZooKeys (728), 1-455 (serial monograph, English)
G. Y. Lyubarsky, 2018 - First species of Atomaria (Coleoptera: Clavicornia: Cryptophagidae) from Bitterfeld amber and several notes on Miocene and Cretaceous Cryptophagidae - Russian Entomological Journal (27), 381-385 (journal article, English)
V. I. Alekseev, 2017 - Palorus platycotyloides sp. n., the second fossil representative of the tribe Palorini (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) from Baltic amber - Acta Zoologica Bulgarica (69), 167-170 (journal article, English)
F. Soldati, 2017 - Asida groehni sp. nov., the first and the oldest fossil representative of the subfamily Pimeliinae from Eocene Baltic amber (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: Asidini) - Annales Zoologici (67), 555-559 (journal article, English)
M. Nabozhenko, 2017 - The oldest opatrine terrestrial darkling beetle (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: Tenebrioninae) from the Paleocene of Menat (France) - PalZ (91), 307-313 (journal article, English)
M. Nabozhenko, 2016 - Yantaroxenos colydioides gen. et sp. nov. (Tenebrionidae, Lagriinae) from Baltic amber - Annales Zoologici (66), 563-566 (journal article, English)
V. Novák, 2016 - Review of the genus Asiomira (Dubrovina, 1973) stat. nov. (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: Alleculinae: Gonoderini) - Studies and Reports, Taxonomical Series (12), 177-191 (journal article, English)
L. C. Ramírez, 2016 - First fossil assemblage of darkling beetles (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) from Buenos Aires, Argentina: evidence of dry climate during the Late Pleistocene in the humid Pampas - Annales Zoologici (66), 643-652 (journal article, English)
H. L. Chang, 2016 - First record of fossil comb-clawed beetles of the tribe Cteniopodini (Insecta: Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) from the Jehol Biota (Yixian formation of China), Lower Cretaceous - Cretaceous Research (57), 289-293 (journal article, English)
M. V. Nabozhenko, 2016 - A new species of the genus Nalassus Mulsant (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: Helopini) from the Baltic amber - Paleontological Journal (50), 947-952 (journal article, English)
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M. V. Nabozhenko, 2014 - Cryptohelops menaticus – a new genus and species of the tribe Helopini (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) from the Palaeocene of Menat (France) - Comptes Rendus Palevol (13), 65-71 (journal article, English)
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A. G. Kirejtshuk, 2011 - First Mesozoic representative of the subfamily Tenebrioninae (Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae) from the Lower Cretaceous of Yixian (China, Liaoning) - Entomological Review (92), 97-100 (journal article, English)
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H. J. Carter, 1911 - Revision of Pterohelaeus (continued) and of Saragus; with descriptions of new species of Australian Tenebrionidae - Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales (36), 179-223 (journal article, English)
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