The “salpingid group” is an assemblage of several small and somewhat poorly known families of Tenebrionoidea, comprising Pythidae, Boridae, Mycteridae, Pyrochroidae, Salpingidae and Trictenotomidae. Historically, the taxonomy of these groups was rather unsettled, with genera moved between and among several of the families. Much of this chaos was created by an over-reliance on adult-stage features, which was certainly not a situation unique to the salpingid group. Thankfully, a renewed interested in larval stages, and the features they offer, has solidified the classification of the salpingid group. There remain some recently and presently enigmatic taxa in the group; this talk will emphasize some of these “strange” taxa, including (but not limited to) the genera Ischyomius Chevrolat, Trimitomerus Horn, and Osphyoplesius Winkler, and the family Trictenotomidae.