darkling beetle

English Thesaurus

1. sluggish hard-bodied black terrestrial weevil whose larvae feed on e.g. decaying plant material or grain (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	weevil,
definition	:	any of several families of mostly small beetles that feed on plants and plant products; especially snout beetles and seed beetles (noun.animal)

hyponym	:	flour beetle, flour weevil,
definition	:	an insect that infests flour and stored grains (noun.animal)

member meronym	:	family tenebrionidae, tenebrionidae,
definition	:	a family of arthropods including darkling beetles and mealworms (noun.animal)