red flour beetle

English
a red flour beetle

Noun

red flour beetle (plural red flour beetles)

  1. A species of darkling beetle, Tribolium castaneum.
    • 2018, Damian Carrington, The Guardian, 13 November:
      The red flour beetle used in the experiments is a tropical species that thrives at 35C.

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