Information: - Flour beetles are members of the darkling beetle genera Tribolium or Tenebrio . They are pests of cereal silos and are widely used as laboratory animals , as they are easy to keep . The flour beetles consume wheat and other grains , are adapted to survive in very dry environments , and can withstand even higher amounts of radiation than cockroaches . They are a major pest in the agricultural industry and are highly resistant to insecticides . The larvae of T. molitor , when full - grown , are known as mealworms ; small specimens and the larvae of the other species are called mini mealworms . - Darkling beetle is the common name of the large family of beetles, Tenebrionidae. The number of species in the Tenebrionidae is estimated at more than 20,000 and the family is cosmopolitan. Humans spread some species sufficiently that they became cosmopolitan. Examples include "Tribolium castaneum". - Beetles are a group of insects that form the order Coleoptera. The word "coleoptera" is from the Greek , "koleos", meaning "sheath"; and , "pteron", meaning "wing", thus "sheathed wing", because most beetles have two pairs of wings, the front pair, the "elytra", being hardened and thickened into a shell-like protection for the rear pair and the beetle's abdomen. The order contains more species than any other order, constituting almost 25% of all known animal life-forms. About 40% of all described insect species are beetles (about 400,000 species), and new species are discovered frequently. The largest taxonomic family, the Curculionidae (the weevils or snout beetles), also belongs to this order. After reading the paragraphs above, we are interested in knowing the entity with which 'flour beetle' exhibits the relationship of 'parent taxon'. Find the answer from the choices below. Choices: - curculionidae - insects - tenebrionidae - tribolium
tenebrionidae