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About Tribolium castaneum

The red flour beetle (Tribolium castaneum) is a species of beetle in the family Tenebrionidae, the darkling beetles. The red flour beetle, and other closely related beetles like Gnatocerus cornutus, are a worldwide pest of stored products, particularly food grains, and a model organism for ethological and food safety research.

Picture credit: Public domain via Wikimedia Commons (Image source) Taxonomy ID 7070

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Taxonomy ID 7070

Data source United States Department of Agriculture

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Genome assembly: icTriCast1.1

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