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Species Tenebroides mauritanicus - Cadelle

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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 Cleroidea
Family Trogossitidae
Subfamily Trogossitinae
Genus Tenebroides
Species mauritanicus (Cadelle)
Explanation of Names
Tenebroides mauritanicus (Linnaeus 1758)
Size
6-10 mm(1)
Range
Cosmopolitan (spread with commerce), adventive in NA (of Palaearctic origin)(2)(1)
Habitat
common pest in granaries, mills, warehouses, grain elevators, and homes where it infests flour, meal, grain, nuts, seeds, spices, dried fruits, vegetables, and biscuits; occasionally found in the wild on dead wood(1)(2)(3) (locally very common under bark in parts of so. Europe/Caucasus. =v=)
Food
Larvae and adults feed on nuts, seeds, dried fruits, and vegetables, as well as grains and their milled products. Adults also feed on other insects, including larvae of the cheese skipper, Tribolium spp., and larvae and adults of their own species(2)
Life Cycle
2 generations per year in temperate regions, 3 in tropical climates; one of the longest-lived of the insects that attack stored grain(1)
Remarks
Adults and larvae both bore into wood(4)
Works Cited
1.Handbook of urban insects and arachnids: A handbook of urban entomology
Robinson W.H. 2005. Cambridge University Press.
2.The Trogossitidae (Coleoptera) of Atlantic Canada
Majka C.G. 2011. J. Acadian Ent. Soc. 7: 25-31.
3.A revision of the Trogossitidae of America north of Mexico (Coleoptera: Cleroidea)
J.R. Barron. 1971. Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada, 75: 1-143.
4.Canadian beetles (Coleoptera) injurious to crops, ornamentals, stored products and buildings
Campbell J.M., Sarazin M.J., Lyons D.B. 1989. Agriculture Canada, Research branch, Publication 1826. 491 pp.