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Genus Dinoderus - Bamboo Post-powder Beetles

Dinoderus minutus (Fab.) - Dinoderus minutus

Maybe Hypothenemus ??? - Dinoderus japonicus

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Coleoptera (Beetles)

Suborder Polyphaga

Superfamily Bostrichoidea

Family Bostrichidae (Horned Powder-post Beetles)

Subfamily Dinoderinae

Genus Dinoderus (Bamboo Post-powder Beetles)

Explanation of Names

Dinoderus Stephens 1830

Numbers

2 subgenera, with 3 established adventive spp. in our area and 26 spp. total(1)(2)

Identification

key to spp. in(3)

Range

native to the Old World, adventive spp. in our area and established in IL and so. US (DC-FL-TX-CA)(1)

Remarks

Several spp. attack dried cassava, bamboo, and wooden structures in Asia(4)

Works Cited

1.	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.

2.	World catalogue of Bostrichidae (Coleoptera) Borowski J., Węgrzynowicz P. 2007. Mantis, Olsztyn, 247 pp.

3.	False powderpost beetles of the genus Dinoderus in North America (Coleoptera, Bostrichidae) Spilman T.J. 1982. The Coleopterists Bulletin 36: 193-196.

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

Contributed by Phillip Harpootlian on 25 November, 2008 - 4:14pm
Additional contributions by v belov
Last updated 17 February, 2014 - 3:59pm

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