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Meaning of tenebrio




Danilo Enrique Noreña Benítez

tenebrio
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It means dark. It is the name of a genus of small coleoptera insects in the family Tenebrionidae. They are pests of flours and grains. They are known as flour worms, flour weevils or grain weevils. The best known is the flour weevil, with the scientific name of Tenebrio molitor. They cause great economic damage.

  




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TENEBRIO: gender of insects Coleoptera, heteromeros, of the family of the tenebrionidos, that includes beetles of body elongated and whose species main lives in the flour.

  



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