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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Bostrichoidea » Horned Powder-post Beetles (Bostrichidae) » Powder-post Beetles (Lyctinae) » Lyctini » Lyctus » African Powderpost Beetle (Lyctus africanus)

Species Lyctus africanus - African Powderpost Beetle

Classification · Explanation of Names · Size · Identification · Habitat · Remarks · Works Cited
Lyctus africanus
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 Lyctinae (Powder-post Beetles)
Tribe Lyctini
Genus Lyctus
Species africanus (African Powderpost Beetle)
Explanation of Names
Lyctus africanus Lesne 1907
Size
2.5-4 mm(1)
Identification
native to Africa(2) or the Neotropics, now cosmopolitan, get readily established; in our area: NY-FL-AL + WA-CA(1); "may be endemic and restricted to the Oriental and Ethiopian regions"(3)
Habitat
ginger roots; sapwood in field(2); often encountered at ports, infests food (licorice, papaya seeds, ginger roots, etc.), also hardwoods and mahogany plywood(3)
Remarks
earliest record in our area: DC 1898(1)
Works Cited
1.A revision of the New World species of powder-post beetles belonging to the family Lyctidae.
Gerberg, E.J. 1957. USDA Technical Bulletin 1157: 1–55.
2.Alien terrestrial arthropods of Europe
Roques A., Kenis M., Lees D., Lopez-Vaamonde C., Rabitsch W., Rasplus J.-Y., Roy D., eds. 2010. BioRisk 4 Special Issue; 2 vols., 1028 pp.
3.Handbook of urban insects and arachnids: A handbook of urban entomology
Robinson W.H. 2005. Cambridge University Press.
Contributed by v belov on 7 February, 2014 - 11:02pm
Last updated 25 February, 2014 - 5:02pm

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