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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Bostrichoidea » Death-watch and Spider Beetles (Ptinidae) » Death-watch Beetles (Anobiinae) » Anobiini » Anobium » Furniture Beetle (Anobium punctatum)

Species Anobium punctatum - Furniture Beetle

Classification · Other Common Names · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Size · Identification · Range · Food · Life Cycle · Remarks · Works Cited

Anobium punctatum (DeGeer) - Anobium punctatum

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Coleoptera (Beetles)

Suborder Polyphaga

Superfamily Bostrichoidea

Family Ptinidae (Death-watch and Spider Beetles)

Subfamily Anobiinae (Death-watch Beetles)

Tribe Anobiini

Genus Anobium

Species punctatum (Furniture Beetle)

Other Common Names

Common House Borer

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Anobium punctatum (De Geer)

Orig. Comb: Ptinus punctatus De Geer 1774

Size

2.5–6 mm; adults produced in dry environments are generally small(1)

Identification

meso- and metasternum deeply excavated: image here

Range

cosmopolitan(2), native to the Palaearctic, adventive and widespread in NA(3), especially along coastal regions where air humidity is high(1)

Food

many hard- and softwoods(3)

Life Cycle

Eggs are laid in slits, cracks, or crevices in the wood surface. The life cycle is 1-3 years.(4)

Remarks

damages structural wood rather than furniture; it enters houses in infested furniture and spreads to exposed, unfinished wood(1)

earliest record in our area: NJ 1865(5)

Works Cited

1.	Handbook of urban insects and arachnids: A handbook of urban entomology Robinson W.H. 2005. Cambridge University Press.

2.	Death-watch and spider beetles of Wisconsin—Coleoptera: Ptinidae Arango, R.A. and D.K. Young. 2012. General Technical Report FPL-GTR-209. Madison, WI: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Forest Products Laboratory.

3.	American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea Arnett, R.H., Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.). 2002. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, FL.

4.	Eastern Forest Insects Whiteford L. Baker. 1972. U.S. Department of Agriculture · Forest Service.

5.	The Derodontidae, Dermestidae, Bostrichidae, and Anobiidae of the Maritime Provinces of Canada (Coleoptera: Bostrichiformia) C.J. Majka. 2007. Zootaxa 1573: 1–38.

Contributed by v belov on 15 July, 2010 - 3:30am
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, Mike Quinn, Marci Hess
Last updated 19 July, 2023 - 3:29pm

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