-Animals (Kingdom Animalia)

-Arthropods (Phylum Arthropoda)

-Hexapods (Subphylum Hexapoda)

-Insects (Class Insecta)

-Winged and Once-winged Insects (Subclass Pterygota)

-Beetles (Order Coleoptera​​)

-​Water, Rove, Scarab, Long-horned, Leaf, and Snout Beetles (Suborder Polyphaga)

-​Cucujiform Beetles (Infraorder Cucujiformia)

-Darkling Beetles and Allies (Superfamily Tenebrionoidea)

-Darkling Beetles (Family Tenebrionidae)

-Subfamily Stenochiinae

-Tribe Talanini

-Genus Talanus

The genus Talanus belongs to the darkling beetle family (Tenebrionidae), specifically within the subfamily Stenochiinae and the tribe Talanini. Typically dark brown to black, like many other darkling beetles. Elongated and somewhat flattened body, with a hard exoskeleton.