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Species Tribolium destructor - False Black Flour Beetle

and so does this one... - Tribolium destructor

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Coleoptera (Beetles)

Suborder Polyphaga

No Taxon (Series Cucujiformia)

Superfamily Tenebrionoidea

Family Tenebrionidae (Darkling Beetles)

Subfamily Tenebrioninae

Tribe Triboliini

Genus Tribolium (Flour Beetles)

No Taxon (subgenus Tribolium)

Species destructor (False Black Flour Beetle)

Other Common Names

Destructive Flour Beetle, Dark Flour Beetle

Explanation of Names

Tribolium destructor Uyttenboogaart 1933

Identification

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similar in appearance to T. confusum(1); darker than other Tribolium spp.

Range

of tropical (prob. African) origin, adventive in NA & Europe(1)(2)(3)

Habitat

found in animal-food pellets, flour, other stored products, incl. flour, bran, rolled oats, semolina, alfalfa meal, sunflower seeds, grains, and poultry feed(1)

Remarks

earliest record in our area: 1937(4)

Works Cited

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

2.	Checklist of beetles (Coleoptera) of Canada and Alaska. Second edition Bousquet Y., Bouchard P., Davies A.E., Sikes D.S. 2013. ZooKeys 360: 1–402.

3.	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.

4.	The Tenebrionidae (Coleoptera) of the Maritime Provinces of Canada Majka C.G., Bouchard P., Bousquet Y. 2008. Can. Entomol. 140: 690‒713.

Contributed by v belov on 1 March, 2014 - 5:43pm
Last updated 2 March, 2014 - 9:59am

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