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Species Carpophilus hemipterus - Dried-fruit Beetle

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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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