Species Dinoderus minutus - Bamboo Powderpost Beetle

Classification · Other Common Names · Explanation of Names · Size · Range · Habitat · Food · Life Cycle · Remarks · Works Cited

Dinoderus minutus (Fab.) - Dinoderus minutus

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)

Species minutus (Bamboo Powderpost Beetle)

Other Common Names

Bamboo Powderpost Borer, Ghoon Borer(1)

Explanation of Names

Dinoderus minutus (Fabricius 1775)

Size

2.5–3.5 mm(1)

Range

Native to Asia(1), spread worldwide with commerce; in our area, established in several US states and found in warehouses across Canada(2)(3)

Habitat

Common in stored bamboo; heated premises in temperate regions(2)(3); larvae also feed in drugs, spices, cacao, maize, rice, stored grain, dried food, and flour(1)

Food

Bamboo (4)

Life Cycle

<2 months(1)

The female bores into bamboo culms at the breaks in the rind then bored a tunnel across the grain. Eggs are deposited in the exposed ends.(4)

Remarks

A pest of bamboo, cane, and sometimes dry stored foods(2)(3)(5); dried bamboo usually not attacked(1)

Works Cited

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

2.	Scientific names of pest species in Tortricidae (Lepidoptera) frequently cited erroneously in the entomological literature Brown J.W. 2006. American Entomologist 52(3): 182-189.

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

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 Phillip Harpootlian on 25 November, 2008 - 4:15pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, v belov, Marci Hess
Last updated 20 July, 2023 - 3:30pm

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