{{short description|Genus of beetles}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Strongylium terminatum P1460459a.jpg | image_caption = ''Strongylium terminatum'' | taxon = Strongylium | authority = Ditmar, 1809 | display_parents = 2 | diversity_link = List of Strongylium species | diversity = more than 700 species }} __NOTOC__
'''''Strongylium''''' is a genus of darkling beetles in the family Tenebrionidae. It is one of the largest genera in both the family and its subfamily, Stenochiinae, with more than 1,400 known species.<ref name="wan1">{{cite journal |last1=Wang |first1=W.Q. |last2=Li |first2 = P. |last3=Yuan |first3=C.X. |title=One new recorded species of the genus Strongylium (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) from China |journal= Far Eastern Entomologist |date=4 June 2018 |volume=360 |pages=15–20 |doi=10.25221/FEE.360.2 |s2cid=134289075 |doi-access=free }}</ref> These beetles are widely distributed in the tropics and subtropics of the Old and New World. More than 300 species are native to the Neotropics.<ref name=gbif/><ref name=bugguide/><ref name=Bousquet2018/>
==Gallery== <gallery mode="packed" heights="120" style="font-size:100%; line-height:130%"> Strongylium auratum.jpg|''Strongylium auratum'' Strongylium crenatum (49975186706).jpg|''Strongylium crenatum'' Strongylium cultellatum (Maklin, 1864) Darkling Beetle Tenebrionidae (16284030765).jpg|''Strongylium cultellatum'' Strongylium_from_Laos.jpg|''Strongylium'' cf. ''erythrocephalum'' Metallic Tree Darkling Beetle (Strongylium purpuripenne) (11670840164).jpg|''Strongylium purpuripenne'' Strongylium tenuicolle.jpg|''Strongylium tenuicolle'' </gallery>
==See also== * List of Strongylium species
==References== {{Reflist|refs= <ref name=gbif> {{Cite web| title=''Strongylium'' | url=https://www.gbif.org/species/3262018 | website=GBIF | accessdate=2019-12-30 }}</ref>
<ref name=bugguide> {{Cite web| title=''Strongylium'' genus Information | url=https://bugguide.net/node/view/89683 | website=BugGuide.net | accessdate=2019-12-30 }}</ref>
<ref name=Bousquet2018> {{Cite journal | title = Catalogue of Tenebrionidae (Coleoptera) of North America | date = 2018 | last1 = Bousquet | first1 = Yves | last2 = Thomas | first2 = Donald B. | last3 = Bouchard | first3 = Patrice | last4 = Smith | first4 = Aaron D. | last5 = Aalbu | first5 = Rolf L. | last6 = Johnston | first6 = M. Andrew | last7 = Steiner | first7 = Warren E. Jr. | display-authors = 4 | journal = ZooKeys | issue = 728| pages = 1–455 | doi = 10.3897/zookeys.728.20602 | pmc=5799738 | pmid=29416389 | doi-access = free }}</ref> }}
==Further reading== {{refbegin}} * {{Cite book | title = Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Volume 5: Tenebrionoidea | date = 2013 | editor-last1 = Lobl | editor-first1 = I. | editor-last2 = Smetana | editor-first2 = A. | publisher = Apollo Books | isbn = 978-90-04-26090-0 }} {{refend}}
==External links== {{refbegin}} * {{Commons-inline}} {{refend}}
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