CreatureData

Dark flour

Tribolium destructor Uyttenboogaart, 1933

Status not recordedbeetles

The dark flour (Tribolium destructor) is a species in the family Tenebrionidae, order Coleoptera.

No freely licensed photo yet

Quick facts about the dark flour

Weight
Not recorded
Length
Not recorded
Lifespan
Not recorded
Main food
Not recorded
Habitat
Not recorded
Young per litter or clutch
Not recorded
Conservation status
Not recorded
Countries on record
Not recorded

Where does the dark flour live?

Not recorded

Where has it been introduced?

The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species lists the dark flour as introduced in 13 countries, and flagged as invasive in 4 of them.

  1. Canary Islandsinvasive
  2. Latviainvasive
  3. Lithuaniainvasive
  4. Swedeninvasive
  5. Austria
  6. Denmark
  7. Estonia
  8. Japan
  9. Poland
  10. Russia
  11. Spain
  12. United Kingdom
  13. United States

Introduced means brought by people and now present; invasive means the country's checklist records an impact. A species can be native to one part of a country and introduced in another. Source: Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species (CC BY 4.0).

Is the dark flour endangered?

No conservation assessment is recorded for this species in our sources. That is not the same as being safe: it has not been matched to an assessment.

How is the dark flour classified?

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumArthropoda
  3. classInsecta
  4. orderColeoptera
  5. familyTenebrionidae
  6. genusTribolium
  7. SpeciesTribolium destructor Uyttenboogaart, 1933
Other names and names in other languages (18)
  • Dark flour beetleEnglish
  • Destructive flour beetleEnglish
  • False black flour beetleEnglish
  • potemník ničivýCzech
  • LysolbilleDanish
  • rohmukuoriainenFinnish
  • Tribolium de la farineFrench
  • HveitibjallaIcelandic
  • brunsvart melbilleNorwegian Bokmål
  • LysolkeverDutch
  • Хрущак-разрушительRussian
  • lysolbaggeSwedish
  • 褐拟粉甲Chinese
  • Grote rijstmeelkeverDutch
  • Zwartbruine meeltorDutch
  • svartbrun mjölbaggeSwedish
  • 褐拟谷盗Chinese
  • 黑拟谷盗Chinese

Catalogue of Life

Relatives of the dark flour

Other species in the same genus Tribolium.

Bran bug

Tribolium castaneum

TenebrionidaeNo free photo yet

CompareDark flour vs Bran bugDark flour vs Confused flour beetleDark flour vs Black flour beetleDark flour vs Tribolium anaphe

Common questions

Answered only where our data holds the answer.

Is the dark flour an invasive species?

In some places. The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species flags the dark flour as invasive in 4 countries: Canary Islands, Latvia, Lithuania and Sweden. It lists it as introduced in 13 in all.

What kind of animal is the dark flour?

The dark flour (Tribolium destructor) belongs to the family Tenebrionidae in the order Coleoptera.

Sources and how to cite this page

Data as of 2026-11-13. How this page is put together.

Embed a card for this animal on your own site

Copy this code. The card shows the photo with its credit, key facts and a link back to this page.

Preview the card

APA

CreatureData. (2026). Dark flour (Tribolium destructor). Retrieved from https://creaturedata.com/animals/dark-flour

MLA

“Dark flour (Tribolium destructor).” CreatureData, 2026, https://creaturedata.com/animals/dark-flour.

BibTeX
@misc{dark_flour_2026,
  title = {Dark flour (Tribolium destructor)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/dark-flour},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-13}
}