Darkling beetles

(Tenebrionidae) This family is very important and it includes about 19,000 species distributed into more than 2,000 genera. The species exist mainly in tropical and temperate regions of the world. They exist in various groups of families: in rotten wood, fungi, caves, burrows, nests of vertebrates, colonies of ants and termites. Some species cause damages to stored foodstuff such as grains and crop. Many species live in very specialized environments in the most arid regions of the world. In Qatar, this family is one of the best of what the family represents. Five new species have been registered, classified and added for the first time to the encyclopedia of world insects.