Species Carpophilus hemipterus - Dried-fruit Beetle

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Size · Identification · Range · Habitat · Food · Internet References · Works Cited

Dried-fruit Beetle - Carpophilus hemipterus

indoors nitidulid - Carpophilus hemipterus

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Coleoptera (Beetles)

Suborder Polyphaga

No Taxon (Series Cucujiformia)

Superfamily Cucujoidea

No Taxon (Nitidulid series)

Family Nitidulidae (Sap-feeding Beetles)

Subfamily Carpophilinae

Genus Carpophilus

No Taxon (subgenus Carpophilus)

Species hemipterus (Dried-fruit Beetle)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Carpophilus hemipterus (Linnaeus)

Orig. Comb: Dermestes hemipterus Linnaeus 1758

Size

1.8-2.1 mm(1)

Identification

Range

cosmopolitan, native to tropical Asia(2); widespread in NA(3)

Habitat

In the field, common on overripe fruit; indoors, in all kinds of dried fruit and much less frequently in cereals, oilseed, and their derivatives(4); also under rotten logs, oak wilt mycelial mats(3)

Food

adults and larvae feed on the flesh of fruit, esp. those contaminated by fungi and yeasts(4)

Internet References

Fact sheet(1)

Works Cited

1.	PaDIL – High quality images and information tools designed for Biosecurity and Biodiversity

2.	Coleoptera families other than Cerambycidae, Curculionidae sensu lato, Chrysomelidae sensu lato and Coccinelidae -- Chapter 8.5 Denux O., Zagatti P. 2010. BioRisk 4: 315–406.

3.	Beetles of Eastern North America Arthur V. Evans. 2014. Princeton University Press.

4.	Beetles associated with stored products in Canada: An identification guide Bousquet Y. 1990. Research Branch Agriculture Canada, Publication 1837.

Contributed by Joyce Gross on 26 August, 2007 - 4:35pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 28 August, 2015 - 11:16pm

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